From 78afd5612deb8268bafc8b6507d72341d5ed9aac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:33:12 -0700 Subject: mm: add __GFP_OTHER_NODE flag Add a new __GFP_OTHER_NODE flag to tell the low level numa statistics in zone_statistics() that an allocation is on behalf of another thread. This way the local and remote counters can be still correct, even when background daemons like khugepaged are changing memory mappings. This only affects the accounting, but I think it's worth doing that right to avoid confusing users. I first tried to just pass down the right node, but this required a lot of changes to pass down this parameter and at least one addition of a 10th argument to a 9 argument function. Using the flag is a lot less intrusive. Open: should be also used for migration? [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/gfp.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/gfp.h') diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index dca31761b311..bfb8f934521e 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0 #endif #define ___GFP_NO_KSWAPD 0x400000u +#define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x800000u /* * GFP bitmasks.. @@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define __GFP_NOTRACK ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOTRACK) /* Don't track with kmemcheck */ #define __GFP_NO_KSWAPD ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NO_KSWAPD) +#define __GFP_OTHER_NODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_OTHER_NODE) /* On behalf of other node */ /* * This may seem redundant, but it's a way of annotating false positives vs. -- cgit v1.2.3