Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] Add a __GFP_KMEMCG flag

(2012/08/09 22:01), Glauber Costa wrote:

This flag is used to indicate to the callees that this allocation is a
kernel allocation in process context, and should be accounted to
current's memcg. It takes numerical place of the of the recently removed
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <redacted>
CC: Christoph Lameter <redacted>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg-bbCR+/B0CizivPeTLB3BmA@public.gmane.org>
CC: Michal Hocko <redacted>
CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <redacted>
CC: Johannes Weiner <redacted>
CC: Suleiman Souhlal <redacted>
CC: Rik van Riel <redacted>
CC: Mel Gorman <redacted>

Okay, so, only memcg-aware allocations are accounted.
It seems a safe way to go.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <redacted>