linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] Add new GFP flag __GFP

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:41:20 -0500
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>
CC:	penberg@...helsinki.fi, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] Add new GFP flag __GFP_NOTRACE.

Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:

> 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.

Well then I guess we need to put the recording logic into kmem_cache_alloc?
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