This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: bcmgenet: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-bcmgenet-suppress-warnings-on-failed-rx-skb-allo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit cf5549c71ef5a8b004a52bb1ba5a913b30a4ebfa
Author: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 23 16:02:11 2020 -0700
net: bcmgenet: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations
[ Upstream commit ecaeceb8a8a145d93c7e136f170238229165348f ]
The driver is designed to drop Rx packets and reclaim the buffers
when an allocation fails, and the network interface needs to safely
handle this packet loss. Therefore, an allocation failure of Rx
SKBs is relatively benign.
However, the output of the warning message occurs with a high
scheduling priority that can cause excessive jitter/latency for
other high priority processing.
This commit suppresses the warning messages to prevent scheduling
problems while retaining the failure count in the statistics of
the network interface.
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
index 34fae5576b603..4b3b396bd8ebe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
@@ -1575,7 +1575,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *bcmgenet_rx_refill(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv,
dma_addr_t mapping;
/* Allocate a new Rx skb */
- skb = netdev_alloc_skb(priv->dev, priv->rx_buf_len + SKB_ALIGNMENT);
+ skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(priv->dev, priv->rx_buf_len + SKB_ALIGNMENT,
+ GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!skb) {
priv->mib.alloc_rx_buff_failed++;
netif_err(priv, rx_err, priv->dev,
