[PATCH v2] nvme: provide fallback for discard alloc failure

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

When boxes are run near (or to) OOM, we have a problem with the discard
page allocation in nvme. 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.

Allocate a fixed discard page per controller for a safe fallback, and use
that if the initial allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

---

No functional change, just added a comment, and a safe guard BUILD_BUG_ON
to ensure that our max discard segments always fit within a single page.
And corrected the s/sd/nvme typo in the commit message.

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index c71e879821ad..c57cf40e7e04 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -564,9 +564,19 @@ static blk_status_t nvme_setup_discard(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct request *req,
 	struct nvme_dsm_range *range;
 	struct bio *bio;
 
-	range = kmalloc_array(segments, sizeof(*range), GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (!range)
-		return BLK_STS_RESOURCE;
+	range = kmalloc_array(segments, sizeof(*range),
+				GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
+	if (!range) {
+		/*
+		 * If we fail allocation our range, fallback to the controller
+		 * discard page. If that's also busy, it's safe to return
+		 * busy, as we know we can make progress once that's freed.
+		 */
+		if (test_and_set_bit_lock(0, &ns->ctrl->discard_page_busy))
+			return BLK_STS_RESOURCE;
+
+		range = page_address(ns->ctrl->discard_page);
+	}
 
 	__rq_for_each_bio(bio, req) {
 		u64 slba = nvme_block_nr(ns, bio->bi_iter.bi_sector);
@@ -581,7 +591,10 @@ static blk_status_t nvme_setup_discard(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct request *req,
 	}
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(n != segments)) {
-		kfree(range);
+		if (virt_to_page(range) == ns->ctrl->discard_page)
+			clear_bit_unlock(0, &ns->ctrl->discard_page_busy);
+		else
+			kfree(range);
 		return BLK_STS_IOERR;
 	}
 
@@ -664,8 +677,13 @@ void nvme_cleanup_cmd(struct request *req)
 				blk_rq_bytes(req) >> ns->lba_shift);
 	}
 	if (req->rq_flags & RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD) {
-		kfree(page_address(req->special_vec.bv_page) +
-		      req->special_vec.bv_offset);
+		struct nvme_ns *ns = req->rq_disk->private_data;
+		struct page *page = req->special_vec.bv_page;
+
+		if (page == ns->ctrl->discard_page)
+			clear_bit_unlock(0, &ns->ctrl->discard_page_busy);
+		else
+			kfree(page_address(page) + req->special_vec.bv_offset);
 	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvme_cleanup_cmd);
@@ -3578,6 +3596,7 @@ static void nvme_free_ctrl(struct device *dev)
 	ida_simple_remove(&nvme_instance_ida, ctrl->instance);
 	kfree(ctrl->effects);
 	nvme_mpath_uninit(ctrl);
+	kfree(ctrl->discard_page);
 
 	if (subsys) {
 		mutex_lock(&subsys->lock);
@@ -3618,6 +3637,14 @@ int nvme_init_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct device *dev,
 	memset(&ctrl->ka_cmd, 0, sizeof(ctrl->ka_cmd));
 	ctrl->ka_cmd.common.opcode = nvme_admin_keep_alive;
 
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(NVME_DSM_MAX_RANGES * sizeof(struct nvme_dsm_range) >
+			PAGE_SIZE);
+	ctrl->discard_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ctrl->discard_page) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	ret = ida_simple_get(&nvme_instance_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out;
@@ -3655,6 +3682,8 @@ int nvme_init_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct device *dev,
 out_release_instance:
 	ida_simple_remove(&nvme_instance_ida, ctrl->instance);
 out:
+	if (ctrl->discard_page)
+		__free_page(ctrl->discard_page);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvme_init_ctrl);
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
index e20e737ac10c..f1fe88598a04 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ struct nvme_ctrl {
 	u16 maxcmd;
 	int nr_reconnects;
 	struct nvmf_ctrl_options *opts;
+
+	struct page *discard_page;
+	unsigned long discard_page_busy;
 };
 
 struct nvme_subsystem {

-- 
Jens Axboe