Florian Westphal
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Sven Auhagen reports transaction failures with following error: ./main.nft:13:1-26: Error: Could not process rule: Cannot allocate memory percpu: allocation failed, size=16 align=8 atomic=1, atomic alloc failed, no space left This points to failing pcpu allocation with GFP_ATOMIC flag. However, transactions happen from user context and are allowed to sleep. One case where we can call into percpu allocator with GFP_ATOMIC is nft_counter expression. Normally this happens from control plane, so this could use GFP_KERNEL instead. But one use case, element insertion from packet path, needs to use GFP_ATOMIC allocations (nft_dynset expression). At this time, .clone callbacks always use GFP_ATOMIC for this reason. Add gfp_t argument to the .clone function and pass GFP_KERNEL or GFP_ATOMIC flag depending on context, this allows all clone memory allocations to sleep for the normal (transaction) case. Cc: Sven Auhagen <sven.auhagen@voleatech.de> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.