From: Larry Woodman Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 00:05:45 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [NET]: __alloc_pages() failures reported due to fragmentation X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=db38c179a759a9c4722525e8c9f09ac80e372377;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git [NET]: __alloc_pages() failures reported due to fragmentation We have seen a couple of __alloc_pages() failures due to fragmentation, there is plenty of free memory but no large order pages available. I think the problem is in sock_alloc_send_pskb(), the gfp_mask includes __GFP_REPEAT but its never used/passed to the page allocator. Shouldnt the gfp_mask be passed to alloc_skb() ? Signed-off-by: Larry Woodman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index d472db4776c3..ee6cd2541d35 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *sock_alloc_send_pskb(struct sock *sk, goto failure; if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) < sk->sk_sndbuf) { - skb = alloc_skb(header_len, sk->sk_allocation); + skb = alloc_skb(header_len, gfp_mask); if (skb) { int npages; int i;