Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] Add new GFP flag __GFP_NOTRACE.

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Eduard-Gabriel,

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
<eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __GFP_NOTRACE turns off allocator tracing for that particular allocation.
>
> This is used by kmemtrace to correctly classify different kinds of
> allocations, without recording one event multiple times. Example: SLAB's
> kmalloc() calls kmem_cache_alloc(), but we want to record this only as a
> kmalloc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't like this approach. I think you can just place the hooks in
the proper place in SLAB to avoid this?
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