| Message ID | 49E5B864.203@cosmosbay.com |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted, archived |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:35:16 +0200 > Latest tcpdump/libpcap triggers annoying messages because of high order page > allocation failures (when lowmem exhausted or fragmented) > > These allocation errors are correctly handled so could be silent. ... > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Looks fine to me, applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c index 74776de..13c3ef0 100644 --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -1758,8 +1758,9 @@ static void free_pg_vec(char **pg_vec, unsigned int order, unsigned int len) static inline char *alloc_one_pg_vec_page(unsigned long order) { - return (char *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_ZERO, - order); + gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NOWARN; + + return (char *) __get_free_pages(gfp_flags, order); } static char **alloc_pg_vec(struct tpacket_req *req, int order)
Latest tcpdump/libpcap triggers annoying messages because of high order page allocation failures (when lowmem exhausted or fragmented) These allocation errors are correctly handled so could be silent. [22660.208901] tcpdump: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xc0d0 [22660.208921] Pid: 13866, comm: tcpdump Not tainted 2.6.30-rc2 #170 [22660.208936] Call Trace: [22660.208950] [<c04e2b46>] ? printk+0x18/0x1a [22660.208965] [<c02760f7>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x357/0x460 [22660.208980] [<c0276251>] __get_free_pages+0x21/0x40 [22660.208995] [<c04cc835>] packet_set_ring+0x105/0x3d0 [22660.209009] [<c04ccd1d>] packet_setsockopt+0x21d/0x4d0 [22660.209025] [<c0270400>] ? filemap_fault+0x0/0x450 [22660.209040] [<c0449e34>] sys_setsockopt+0x54/0xa0 [22660.209053] [<c044b97f>] sys_socketcall+0xef/0x270 [22660.209067] [<c0202e34>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html