Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] kmemtrace: SLUB hooks.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Jul 11 2008 - 04:46:21 EST


Hi Eduard-Gabriel,

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
<eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This adds hooks for the SLUB allocator, to allow tracing with kmemtrace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> @@ -205,7 +206,13 @@ void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
>
> static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> {
> - return (void *)__get_free_pages(flags | __GFP_COMP, get_order(size));
> + unsigned int order = get_order(size);
> + void *ret = (void *) __get_free_pages(flags, order);
> +
> + kmemtrace_mark_alloc(KMEMTRACE_KIND_KERNEL, _THIS_IP_, ret,
> + size, PAGE_SIZE << order, flags);

Oh, I missed this on the first review. Here we have, like in SLOB,
page allocator pass-through, so wouldn't KIND_PAGES be more
appropriate?
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