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Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:53:08 +0400
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@...eBSD.org>
CC:	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <suleiman@...gle.com>,
	<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, <penberg@...nel.org>,
	<cl@...ux.com>, <yinghan@...gle.com>, <hughd@...gle.com>,
	<gthelen@...gle.com>, <peterz@...radead.org>,
	<dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>, <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	<mgorman@...e.de>, <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, <devel@...nvz.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/13] slab: Add kmem_cache_gfp_flags() helper function.

On 03/10/2012 12:39 AM, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> This function returns the gfp flags that are always applied to
> allocations of a kmem_cache.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal<suleiman@...gle.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/slab_def.h |    6 ++++++
>   include/linux/slob_def.h |    6 ++++++
>   include/linux/slub_def.h |    6 ++++++
>   3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/slab_def.h b/include/linux/slab_def.h
> index fbd1117..25f9a6a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/slab_def.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slab_def.h
> @@ -159,6 +159,12 @@ found:
>   	return __kmalloc(size, flags);
>   }
>
> +static inline gfp_t
> +kmem_cache_gfp_flags(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
> +{
> +	return cachep->gfpflags;
> +}
> +
>   #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>   extern void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node);
>   extern void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t flags, int node);
> diff --git a/include/linux/slob_def.h b/include/linux/slob_def.h
> index 0ec00b3..3fa527d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/slob_def.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slob_def.h
> @@ -34,4 +34,10 @@ static __always_inline void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
>   	return kmalloc(size, flags);
>   }
>
> +static inline gfp_t
> +kmem_cache_gfp_flags(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>   #endif /* __LINUX_SLOB_DEF_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
> index a32bcfd..5911d81 100644
> --- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
> @@ -313,4 +313,10 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
>   }
>   #endif
>
> +static inline gfp_t
> +kmem_cache_gfp_flags(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
> +{
> +	return cachep->allocflags;
> +}
> +

Why is this needed? Can't the caller just call 
mem_cgroup_get_kmem_cache(cachep, flags | cachep->allocflags) ?

>   #endif /* _LINUX_SLUB_DEF_H */

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