This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: do not deplete pfmemalloc reserve to the 4.0-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-do-not-deplete-pfmemalloc-reserve.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Apr 29 11:59:49 CEST 2015 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:33:36 -0700 Subject: net: do not deplete pfmemalloc reserve From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 79930f5892e134c6da1254389577fffb8bd72c66 ] build_skb() should look at the page pfmemalloc status. If set, this means page allocator allocated this page in the expectation it would help to free other pages. Networking stack can do that only if skb->pfmemalloc is also set. Also, we must refrain using high order pages from the pfmemalloc reserve, so __page_frag_refill() must also use __GFP_NOMEMALLOC for them. Under memory pressure, using order-0 pages is probably the best strategy. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/skbuff.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -311,7 +311,11 @@ struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, un memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, tail)); skb->truesize = SKB_TRUESIZE(size); - skb->head_frag = frag_size != 0; + if (frag_size) { + skb->head_frag = 1; + if (virt_to_head_page(data)->pfmemalloc) + skb->pfmemalloc = 1; + } atomic_set(&skb->users, 1); skb->head = data; skb->data = data; @@ -348,7 +352,8 @@ static struct page *__page_frag_refill(s gfp_t gfp = gfp_mask; if (order) { - gfp_mask |= __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY; + gfp_mask |= __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | + __GFP_NOMEMALLOC; page = alloc_pages_node(NUMA_NO_NODE, gfp_mask, order); nc->frag.size = PAGE_SIZE << (page ? order : 0); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.0/net-rfs-fix-crash-in-get_rps_cpus.patch queue-4.0/net-fix-crash-in-build_skb.patch queue-4.0/tcp-avoid-looping-in-tcp_send_fin.patch queue-4.0/net-do-not-deplete-pfmemalloc-reserve.patch queue-4.0/tcp-fix-possible-deadlock-in-tcp_send_fin.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html