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: Johannes Weiner <redacted>
CC: Suleiman Souhlal <redacted>
CC: Rik van Riel <redacted>
CC: Mel Gorman <redacted>
Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <redacted>
---
include/linux/gfp.h | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index f9bc873..d8eae4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#else
#define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
+#define ___GFP_KMEMCG 0x400000u
+#else
+#define ___GFP_KMEMCG 0
+#endif
#define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x800000u
#define ___GFP_WRITE 0x1000000u
@@ -91,7 +96,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define __GFP_OTHER_NODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_OTHER_NODE) /* On behalf of other node */
#define __GFP_WRITE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_WRITE) /* Allocator intends to dirty page */
-
+#define __GFP_KMEMCG ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_KMEMCG) /* Allocation comes from a memcg-accounted resource */
/*
* This may seem redundant, but it's a way of annotating false positives vs.
* allocations that simply cannot be supported (e.g. page tables).
--
1.7.11.4