Re: [PATCH] net/skbuff: silence warnings under memory pressure

[Michal Hocko]

Cc printk maintainers

On Tue 03-09-19 17:42:28, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > I suppose what happens is those skb_build() allocations are from softirq,
> > > and
> > > once one of them failed, it calls printk() which generates more interrupts.
> > > Hence, the infinite loop.
> > 
> > Please elaborate more.
> > 
> 
> If you look at the original report, the failed allocation dump_stack() is,
> 
>  <IRQ>
>  warn_alloc.cold.43+0x8a/0x148
>  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1a5c/0x1bb0
>  alloc_pages_current+0x9c/0x110
>  allocate_slab+0x34a/0x11f0
>  new_slab+0x46/0x70
>  ___slab_alloc+0x604/0x950
>  __slab_alloc+0x12/0x20
>  kmem_cache_alloc+0x32a/0x400
>  __build_skb+0x23/0x60
>  build_skb+0x1a/0xb0
>  igb_clean_rx_irq+0xafc/0x1010 [igb]
>  igb_poll+0x4bb/0xe30 [igb]
>  net_rx_action+0x244/0x7a0
>  __do_softirq+0x1a0/0x60a
>  irq_exit+0xb5/0xd0
>  do_IRQ+0x81/0x170
>  common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
>  </IRQ>
> 
> Since it has no __GFP_NOWARN to begin with, it will call,
> 
> printk
>   vprintk_default
>     vprintk_emit
>       wake_up_klogd
>         irq_work_queue
>           __irq_work_queue_local
>             arch_irq_work_raise
>               apic->send_IPI_self(IRQ_WORK_VECTOR)
>                 smp_irq_work_interrupt
>                   exiting_irq
>                     irq_exit
> 
> and end up processing pending net_rx_action softirqs again which are plenty due
> to connected via ssh etc.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs