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scsi: sd: use mempool for discard special page
authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:46:55 +0000 (06:46 -0700)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 01:11:54 +0000 (20:11 -0500)
commit61cce6f6eeced5ddd9cac55e807fe28b4f18c1ba
tree972d163b33f885328b14c9a84e53d8895fcbddb4
parent9e6371d3c6913ff1707fb2c0274c9925f7aaef80
scsi: sd: use mempool for discard special page

When boxes are run near (or to) OOM, we have a problem with the discard
page allocation in sd. If we fail allocating the special page, we return
busy, and it'll get retried. But since ordering is honored for dispatch
requests, we can keep retrying this same IO and failing. Behind that IO
could be requests that want to free memory, but they never get the
chance. This means you get repeated spews of traces like this:

[1201401.625972] Call Trace:
[1201401.631748]  dump_stack+0x4d/0x65
[1201401.639445]  warn_alloc+0xec/0x190
[1201401.647335]  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xe84/0xf30
[1201401.657722]  ? get_page_from_freelist+0x11b/0xb10
[1201401.668475]  ? __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x2e/0xf30
[1201401.679054]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1f9/0x210
[1201401.689424]  alloc_pages_current+0x8c/0x110
[1201401.699025]  sd_setup_write_same16_cmnd+0x51/0x150
[1201401.709987]  sd_init_command+0x49c/0xb70
[1201401.719029]  scsi_setup_cmnd+0x9c/0x160
[1201401.727877]  scsi_queue_rq+0x4d9/0x610
[1201401.736535]  blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x19a/0x360
[1201401.747113]  blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xff/0x190
[1201401.758844]  __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x95/0xa0
[1201401.768653]  blk_mq_run_work_fn+0x2c/0x30
[1201401.777886]  process_one_work+0x14b/0x400
[1201401.787119]  worker_thread+0x4b/0x470
[1201401.795586]  kthread+0x110/0x150
[1201401.803089]  ? rescuer_thread+0x320/0x320
[1201401.812322]  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
[1201401.820787]  ? do_syscall_64+0x53/0x150
[1201401.829635]  ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40

Ensure that the discard page allocation has a mempool backing, so we
know we can make progress.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/scsi/sd.c