From patchwork Wed Apr 15 10:35:16 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Eric Dumazet X-Patchwork-Id: 25977 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 [209.132.176.167]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3A9DE18D for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:35:31 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752402AbZDOKf0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:35:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751307AbZDOKfZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:35:25 -0400 Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([212.99.114.194]:48935 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155AbZDOKfZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:35:25 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw1.cosmosbay.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id n3FAZGSf009951; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:35:17 +0200 Message-ID: <49E5B864.203@cosmosbay.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:35:16 +0200 From: Eric Dumazet User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: Linux Netdev List Subject: [PATCH] packet: avoid warnings when high-order page allocation fails X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (gw1.cosmosbay.com [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:35:17 +0200 (CEST) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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] [] ? printk+0x18/0x1a [22660.208965] [] __alloc_pages_internal+0x357/0x460 [22660.208980] [] __get_free_pages+0x21/0x40 [22660.208995] [] packet_set_ring+0x105/0x3d0 [22660.209009] [] packet_setsockopt+0x21d/0x4d0 [22660.209025] [] ? filemap_fault+0x0/0x450 [22660.209040] [] sys_setsockopt+0x54/0xa0 [22660.209053] [] sys_socketcall+0xef/0x270 [22660.209067] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet --- 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)