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__napi_alloc_skb() is napi_alloc_skb() with the added flexibility
of choosing gfp_mask. This is a NAPI function, so GFP_ATOMIC is
implied. The only practical choice the caller has is whether to
set __GFP_NOWARN. But that's a false choice, too, allocation failures
in atomic context will happen, and printing warnings in logs,
effectively for a packet drop, is both too much and very likely
non-actionable.

This leads me to a conclusion that most uses of napi_alloc_skb()
are simply misguided, and should use __GFP_NOWARN in the first
place. We also have a "standard" way of reporting allocation
failures via the queue stat API (qstats::rx-alloc-fail).

The direct motivation for this patch is that one of the drivers
used at Meta calls napi_alloc_skb() (so prior to this patch without
__GFP_NOWARN), and the resulting OOM warning is the top networking
warning in our fleet.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240327040213.3153864-1-kuba@kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>