- * Those pages are accounted to a particular memcg, embedded in the
- * corresponding page_cgroup. To avoid adding a hit in the allocator to search
- * for that information only to find out that it is NULL for users who have no
- * interest in that whatsoever, we provide these functions.
- *
- * The caller knows better which flags it relies on.
+ * It should be used when the caller would like to use kmalloc, but since the
+ * allocation is large, it has to fall back to the page allocator.
+ */
+struct page *alloc_kmem_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
+{
+ struct page *page;
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
+
+ if (!memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_mask, &memcg, order))
+ return NULL;
+ page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
+ memcg_kmem_commit_charge(page, memcg, order);
+ return page;
+}
+
+struct page *alloc_kmem_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
+{
+ struct page *page;
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
+
+ if (!memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_mask, &memcg, order))
+ return NULL;
+ page = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp_mask, order);
+ memcg_kmem_commit_charge(page, memcg, order);
+ return page;
+}
+
+/*
+ * __free_kmem_pages and free_kmem_pages will free pages allocated with
+ * alloc_kmem_pages.