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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,  Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 asantostc@gmail.com, gustavold@gmail.com, vlad.wing@gmail.com,
	 Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] netpoll: do not warn when the best-effort pool refill fails
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:45:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260629-netpoll_no_warn-v1-2-f380f0b2cd0c@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260629-netpoll_no_warn-v1-0-f380f0b2cd0c@debian.org>

refill_skbs() tops up the per-netpoll skb pool with GFP_ATOMIC and
simply stops on the first allocation failure, leaving the pool partially
filled; a later refill tops it up once memory frees up. The allocation
failing is therefore an expected and fully handled condition, but
without __GFP_NOWARN the page allocator emits a warn_alloc() splat with
a full stack trace on every miss.

Pass __GFP_NOWARN so the best-effort refill stays quiet, mirroring the
same change in netconsole's find_skb().

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 net/core/netpoll.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 229dde818ab33..85aa513508811 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ static void refill_skbs(struct netpoll *np)
 	skb_pool = &np->skb_pool;
 
 	while (READ_ONCE(skb_pool->qlen) < MAX_SKBS) {
-		skb = alloc_skb(MAX_SKB_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		skb = alloc_skb(MAX_SKB_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
 		if (!skb)
 			break;
 

-- 
2.53.0-Meta


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-29 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-29 11:45 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: do not warn on best-effort skb allocation failures Breno Leitao
2026-06-29 11:45 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] netconsole: do not warn when the best-effort skb allocation fails Breno Leitao
2026-06-29 11:45 ` Breno Leitao [this message]

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