From patchwork Thu Jul 12 06:40:26 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mel Gorman X-Patchwork-Id: 170568 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC002C01CC for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:49:01 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932770Ab2GLGs7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:48:59 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39831 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758669Ab2GLGkt (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:40:49 -0400 Received: from relay1.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55727A4478; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:40:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux-MM , Linux-Netdev , LKML , David Miller , Neil Brown , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Christie , Eric B Munson , Eric Dumazet , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 10/16] netvm: Propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:40:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1342075232-29267-11-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.2 In-Reply-To: <1342075232-29267-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1342075232-29267-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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 the packet is fragmented, 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. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/skbuff.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index 0336f02..b814bb8 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -1247,6 +1247,17 @@ static inline void __skb_fill_page_desc(struct sk_buff *skb, int i, { skb_frag_t *frag = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]; + /* + * Propagate page->pfmemalloc to the skb if we can. The problem is + * that not all callers have unique ownership of the page. If + * pfmemalloc is set, we check the mapping as a mapping implies + * page->index is set (index and pfmemalloc share space). + * If it's a valid mapping, we cannot use page->pfmemalloc but we + * do not lose pfmemalloc information as the pages would not be + * allocated using __GFP_MEMALLOC. + */ + if (page->pfmemalloc && !page->mapping) + skb->pfmemalloc = true; frag->page.p = page; frag->page_offset = off; skb_frag_size_set(frag, size);