From 0614002bb5f7411e61ffa0dfe5be1f2c84df3da3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:44:24 -0700 Subject: netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc from skb_alloc_page to skb The skb->pfmemalloc flag gets set to true iff during the slab allocation of data in __alloc_skb that the the PFMEMALLOC reserves were used. If page splitting is used, it is possible that pages will be allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserve without propagating this information to the skb. This patch propagates page->pfmemalloc from pages allocated for fragments to the skb. It works by reintroducing and expanding the skb_alloc_page() API to take an skb. If the page was allocated from pfmemalloc reserves, it is automatically copied. If the driver allocates the page before the skb, it should call skb_propagate_pfmemalloc() after the skb is allocated to ensure the flag is copied properly. Failure to do so is not critical. The resulting driver may perform slower if it is used for swap-over-NBD or swap-over-NFS but it should not result in failure. [davem@davemloft.net: API rename and consistency] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Christie Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/usb') diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c index 187c144c5e5b..64610048ce87 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static int rx_submit(struct usbpn_dev *pnd, struct urb *req, gfp_t gfp_flags) struct page *page; int err; - page = alloc_page(gfp_flags); + page = __skb_alloc_page(gfp_flags | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC, NULL); if (!page) return -ENOMEM; -- cgit v1.2.3