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Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:

> This is used by kmemtrace to correctly classify different kinds of
> allocations, without recording one event multiple times. Example: SLAB's
> kmalloc() calls kmem_cache_alloc(), but we want to record this only as a
> kmalloc.

Well then I guess we need to put the recording logic into kmem_cache_alloc?