Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:51:58 -0800
From:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	leedom@...lsio.com, hariprasad@...lsio.com,
	donald.c.skidmore@...el.com, oliver@...kum.org, balbi@...com,
	matthew.vick@...el.com, mgorman@...e.de, davem@...emloft.net,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Subject: [net-next PATCH 1/5] net: Add netdev Rx page allocation function

This patch implements __netdev_alloc_pages and __netdev_alloc_page.  These
are meant to replace the __skb_alloc_pages and __skb_alloc_page functions.
The reason for doing this is that it occurred to me that __skb_alloc_page is
supposed to be passed an sk_buff pointer, but it is NULL in all cases where
it is used.  Worse is that in the case of ixgbe it is passed NULL via the
sk_buff pointer in the rx_buffer info structure which means the compiler is
not correctly stripping it out.

In the case of anything greater than order 0 it is assumed that we want a
compound page so __GFP_COMP is set for all allocations as we expect a
compound page when assigning a page frag.

The other change in this patch is to exploit the behaviors of the page
allocator in how it handles flags.  So for example we can always set
__GFP_COMP and __GFP_MEMALLOC since they are ignored if they are not
applicable or are overridden by another flag.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h |   48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 103fbe8..f196628 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -2185,6 +2185,54 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(struct net_device *dev,
 }
 
 /**
+ * __netdev_alloc_pages - allocate page for ps-rx
+ * @gfp_mask: allocation priority. Set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if not for network Rx
+ * @order: size of the allocation
+ *
+ * Allocate a new page.
+ *
+ * %NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
+*/
+static inline struct page *__netdev_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask,
+						unsigned int order)
+{
+	/* This piece of code contains several assumptions.
+	 * 1.  This is for device Rx, therefor a cold page is preferred.
+	 * 2.  The expectation is the user wants a compound page.
+	 * 3.  If requesting a order 0 page it will not be compound
+	 *     due to the check to see if order has a value in prep_new_page
+	 * 4.  __GFP_MEMALLOC is ignored if __GFP_NOMEMALLOC is due to
+	 *     code in gfp_to_alloc_flags that should be enforcing this.
+	 */
+	gfp_mask |= __GFP_COLD | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_MEMALLOC;
+
+	return alloc_pages_node(NUMA_NO_NODE, gfp_mask, order);
+}
+
+static inline struct page *netdev_alloc_pages(unsigned int order)
+{
+	return __netdev_alloc_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order);
+}
+
+/**
+ * __netdev_alloc_page - allocate a page for ps-rx
+ * @gfp_mask: allocation priority. Set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if not for network Rx
+ *
+ * Allocate a new page.
+ *
+ * %NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
+ */
+static inline struct page *__netdev_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	return __netdev_alloc_pages(gfp_mask, 0);
+}
+
+static inline struct page *netdev_alloc_page(void)
+{
+	return __netdev_alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+
+/**
  *	__skb_alloc_pages - allocate pages for ps-rx on a skb and preserve pfmemalloc data
  *	@gfp_mask: alloc_pages_node mask. Set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if not for network packet RX
  *	@skb: skb to set pfmemalloc on if __GFP_MEMALLOC is used

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