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net, sunrpc: suppress allocation warning in rpc_malloc()

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rpc_malloc() allocates with GFP_NOWAIT without making any attempt at
reclaim so it easily fails when low on memory.  This ends up spamming the
kernel log:

SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node 0 (gfp=0x4000)
  cache: kmalloc-8192, object size: 8192, order: 1
  node 0: slabs: 207/207, objs: 207/207, free: 0
rekonq: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x204000
CPU: 2 PID: 14321 Comm: rekonq Tainted: G           O  3.15.0-rc3-12.gfc9498b-desktop+ #6
Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/M4A785TD-V EVO, BIOS 2105    07/23/2010
 0000000000000000 ffff880010ff17d0 ffffffff815e693c 0000000000204000
 ffff880010ff1858 ffffffff81137bd2 0000000000000000 0000001000000000
 ffff88011ffebc38 0000000000000001 0000000000204000 ffff88011ffea000
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff815e693c>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x6f
 [<ffffffff81137bd2>] warn_alloc_failed+0xd2/0x140
 [<ffffffff8113be19>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7e9/0xa30
 [<ffffffff811824a8>] kmem_getpages+0x58/0x140
 [<ffffffff81183de6>] fallback_alloc+0x1d6/0x210
 [<ffffffff81183be3>] ____cache_alloc_node+0x123/0x150
 [<ffffffff81185953>] __kmalloc+0x203/0x490
 [<ffffffffa06b0ee2>] rpc_malloc+0x32/0xa0 [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffffa06a6999>] call_allocate+0xb9/0x170 [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffffa06b19d8>] __rpc_execute+0x88/0x460 [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffffa06b2da9>] rpc_execute+0x59/0xc0 [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffffa06a932b>] rpc_run_task+0x6b/0x90 [sunrpc]
 [<ffffffffa077b5c1>] nfs4_call_sync_sequence+0x51/0x80 [nfsv4]
 [<ffffffffa077d45d>] _nfs4_do_setattr+0x1ed/0x280 [nfsv4]
 [<ffffffffa0782a72>] nfs4_do_setattr+0x72/0x180 [nfsv4]
 [<ffffffffa078334c>] nfs4_proc_setattr+0xbc/0x140 [nfsv4]
 [<ffffffffa074a7e8>] nfs_setattr+0xd8/0x240 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff811baa71>] notify_change+0x231/0x380
 [<ffffffff8119cf5c>] chmod_common+0xfc/0x120
 [<ffffffff8119df80>] SyS_chmod+0x40/0x90
 [<ffffffff815f4cfd>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
...

If the allocation fails, simply return NULL and avoid spamming the kernel
log.

Reported-by: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
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David Rientjes 2014-05-07 13:03:41 -07:00 committed by Trond Myklebust
parent 68072992c8
commit c6c8fe79a8
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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net/sunrpc/sched.c
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@ -832,7 +832,8 @@ static void rpc_async_schedule(struct work_struct *work)
* @size: requested byte size
*
* To prevent rpciod from hanging, this allocator never sleeps,
* returning NULL if the request cannot be serviced immediately.
* returning NULL and suppressing warning if the request cannot be serviced
* immediately.
* The caller can arrange to sleep in a way that is safe for rpciod.
*
* Most requests are 'small' (under 2KiB) and can be serviced from a
@ -845,7 +846,7 @@ static void rpc_async_schedule(struct work_struct *work)
void *rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task *task, size_t size)
{
struct rpc_buffer *buf;
gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOWAIT;
gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
if (RPC_IS_SWAPPER(task))
gfp |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;