+CC Mel who added that code (long time ago though :) in case he
remembers some catch.

On 10/18/2017 12:30 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
> SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT is a permanent attribute of a slab cache.  Set 
> __GFP_RECLAIMABLE as part of its ->allocflags rather than check the cachep 
> flag on every page allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>

Seems correct to me, and SLUB does that this way too, since the beginning.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>

> ---
>  mm/slab.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -1409,8 +1409,6 @@ static struct page *kmem_getpages(struct kmem_cache 
> *cachep, gfp_t flags,
>       int nr_pages;
>  
>       flags |= cachep->allocflags;
> -     if (cachep->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT)
> -             flags |= __GFP_RECLAIMABLE;
>  
>       page = __alloc_pages_node(nodeid, flags | __GFP_NOTRACK, 
> cachep->gfporder);
>       if (!page) {
> @@ -2143,6 +2141,8 @@ __kmem_cache_create (struct kmem_cache *cachep, 
> unsigned long flags)
>       cachep->allocflags = __GFP_COMP;
>       if (flags & SLAB_CACHE_DMA)
>               cachep->allocflags |= GFP_DMA;
> +     if (flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT)
> +             cachep->allocflags |= __GFP_RECLAIMABLE;
>       cachep->size = size;
>       cachep->reciprocal_buffer_size = reciprocal_value(size);
>  
> 
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