From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757651AbYGNQbe (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:31:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756118AbYGNQbM (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:31:12 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:51592 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755742AbYGNQbL (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:31:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] kmemtrace: SLUB hooks. From: Pekka Enberg To: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Lameter In-Reply-To: <20080711231923.0f827113@linux360.ro> References: <1215712946-23572-1-git-send-email-eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> <1215712946-23572-2-git-send-email-eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> <1215712946-23572-3-git-send-email-eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> <1215712946-23572-4-git-send-email-eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> <20080710210617.70975aed@linux360.ro> <84144f020807110145g3467d77md54e3d734ecba2c6@mail.gmail.com> <20080711231923.0f827113@linux360.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:30:54 +0300 Message-Id: <1216053054.6762.6.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Eduard-Gabriel, On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:45:59 +0300 > > 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? On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 23:19 +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote: > The rationale was to be able to trace how kmalloc()s perform, no matter > what the allocator does behind the scenes. Presumably, the developer > would know what kmalloc() really does with an allocation request. > > Does this sound okay? Fine with me. Pekka