linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, slab: Move memcg_cache

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Date:   Sat, 20 Jul 2019 22:31:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, slab: Move memcg_cache_params structure to
 mm/slab.h

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Waiman Long wrote:

> The memcg_cache_params structure is only embedded into the kmem_cache
> of slab and slub allocators as defined in slab_def.h and slub_def.h
> and used internally by mm code. There is no needed to expose it in
> a public header. So move it from include/linux/slab.h to mm/slab.h.
> It is just a refactoring patch with no code change.
> 
> In fact both the slub_def.h and slab_def.h should be moved into the mm
> directory as well, but that will probably cause many merge conflicts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Thanks Waiman!