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David Rientjes c17a1425bd net, skbuff: do not prefer skb allocation fails early 
[ Upstream commit f8c468e853 ]

Commit dcda9b0471 ("mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic") replaced __GFP_REPEAT in
alloc_skb_with_frags() with __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL when the allocation may
directly reclaim.

The previous behavior would require reclaim up to 1 << order pages for
skb aligned header_len of order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER before failing,
otherwise the allocations in alloc_skb() would loop in the page allocator
looking for memory.  __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL makes both allocations failable
under memory pressure, including for the HEAD allocation.

This can cause, among many other things, write() to fail with ENOTCONN
during RPC when under memory pressure.

These allocations should succeed as they did previous to dcda9b0471
even if it requires calling the oom killer and additional looping in the
page allocator to find memory.  There is no way to specify the previous
behavior of __GFP_REPEAT, but it's unlikely to be necessary since the
previous behavior only guaranteed that 1 << order pages would be reclaimed
before failing for order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.  That reclaim is not
guaranteed to be contiguous memory, so repeating for such large orders is
usually not beneficial.

Removing the setting of __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL to restore the previous
behavior, specifically not allowing alloc_skb() to fail for small orders
and oom kill if necessary rather than allowing RPCs to fail.

Fixes: dcda9b0471 ("mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic")
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2019-01-26 09:20:38 +01:00
arch Disable MSI also when pcie-octeon.pcie_disable on 2019-01-22 21:09:55 +01:00
block block: use rcu_work instead of call_rcu to avoid sleep in softirq 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: authenc - fix parsing key with misaligned rta_len 2019-01-22 21:09:50 +01:00
Documentation x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off 2019-01-09 17:45:54 +01:00
drivers net: dsa: mv88x6xxx: mv88e6390 errata 2019-01-26 09:20:38 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs blockdev: Fix livelocks on loop device 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
include block: use rcu_work instead of call_rcu to avoid sleep in softirq 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-22 21:09:54 +01:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel fork, memcg: fix cached_stacks case 2019-01-16 22:03:23 +01:00
lib fix int_sqrt64() for very large numbers 2019-01-22 21:09:55 +01:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm: page_mapped: don't assume compound page is huge or THP 2019-01-16 22:03:26 +01:00
net net, skbuff: do not prefer skb allocation fails early 2019-01-26 09:20:38 +01:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts x86, modpost: Replace last remnants of RETPOLINE with CONFIG_RETPOLINE 2019-01-16 22:03:21 +01:00
security selinux: fix GPF on invalid policy 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Disable headset Mic VREF for headset mode of ALC225 2019-01-16 22:03:21 +01:00
tools selftests: Fix test errors related to lib.mk khdr target 2019-01-13 09:24:09 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix off-by-one bug in vgic_get_irq() 2019-01-09 17:46:04 +01:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-12-21 14:21:17 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20.4 2019-01-22 21:10:01 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.