[PATCH 2/3] staging: octeon-ethernet: remove skb alloc failure warnings

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Thu Sep 5 18:44:00 UTC 2013


Remove skb allocation failure warnings. They will trigger a page
allocation warning already. Also, one of the warnings was not ratelimited,
causing the box to lock up under heavy traffic & low memory.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
---
 drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mem.c | 7 +------
 drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c  | 3 ---
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mem.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mem.c
index 78b6cb7..199059d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mem.c
@@ -48,13 +48,8 @@ static int cvm_oct_fill_hw_skbuff(int pool, int size, int elements)
 	while (freed) {
 
 		struct sk_buff *skb = dev_alloc_skb(size + 256);
-		if (unlikely(skb == NULL)) {
-			pr_warning
-			    ("Failed to allocate skb for hardware pool %d\n",
-			     pool);
+		if (unlikely(skb == NULL))
 			break;
-		}
-
 		skb_reserve(skb, 256 - (((unsigned long)skb->data) & 0x7f));
 		*(struct sk_buff **)(skb->data - sizeof(void *)) = skb;
 		cvmx_fpa_free(skb->data, pool, DONT_WRITEBACK(size / 128));
diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
index 10e5416..e14a1bb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
@@ -337,9 +337,6 @@ static int cvm_oct_napi_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 			 */
 			skb = dev_alloc_skb(work->len);
 			if (!skb) {
-				printk_ratelimited("Port %d failed to allocate "
-						   "skbuff, packet dropped\n",
-						   work->ipprt);
 				cvm_oct_free_work(work);
 				continue;
 			}
-- 
1.8.3.2



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