Benjamin Block 39bb97e0ed scsi: core: replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in scsi_scan.c
[ Upstream commit 1749ef00f7 ]

We had a test-report where, under memory pressure, adding LUNs to the
systems would fail (the tests add LUNs strictly in sequence):

[ 5525.853432] scsi 0:0:1:1088045124: Direct-Access     IBM      2107900          .148 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 5525.853826] scsi 0:0:1:1088045124: alua: supports implicit TPGS
[ 5525.853830] scsi 0:0:1:1088045124: alua: device naa.6005076303ffd32700000000000044da port group 0 rel port 43
[ 5525.853931] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: Attached scsi generic sg10 type 0
[ 5525.854075] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: [sdk] Disabling DIF Type 1 protection
[ 5525.855495] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: [sdk] 2097152 512-byte logical blocks: (1.07 GB/1.00 GiB)
[ 5525.855606] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: [sdk] Write Protect is off
[ 5525.855609] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: [sdk] Mode Sense: ed 00 00 08
[ 5525.855795] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: [sdk] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 5525.857838]  sdk: sdk1
[ 5525.859468] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: [sdk] Attached SCSI disk
[ 5525.865073] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: alua: transition timeout set to 60 seconds
[ 5525.865078] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: alua: port group 00 state A preferred supports tolusnA
[ 5526.015070] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: alua: port group 00 state A preferred supports tolusnA
[ 5526.015213] sd 0:0:1:1088045124: alua: port group 00 state A preferred supports tolusnA
[ 5526.587439] scsi_alloc_sdev: Allocation failure during SCSI scanning, some SCSI devices might not be configured
[ 5526.588562] scsi_alloc_sdev: Allocation failure during SCSI scanning, some SCSI devices might not be configured

Looking at the code of scsi_alloc_sdev(), and all the calling contexts,
there seems to be no reason to use GFP_ATMOIC here. All the different
call-contexts use a mutex at some point, and nothing in between that
requires no sleeping, as far as I could see. Additionally, the code that
later allocates the block queue for the device (scsi_mq_alloc_queue())
already uses GFP_KERNEL.

There are similar allocations in two other functions:
scsi_probe_and_add_lun(), and scsi_add_lun(),; that can also be done with
GFP_KERNEL.

Here is the contexts for the three functions so far:

    scsi_alloc_sdev()
        scsi_probe_and_add_lun()
            scsi_sequential_lun_scan()
                __scsi_scan_target()
                    scsi_scan_target()
                        mutex_lock()
                    scsi_scan_channel()
                        scsi_scan_host_selected()
                            mutex_lock()
            scsi_report_lun_scan()
                __scsi_scan_target()
    	            ...
            __scsi_add_device()
                mutex_lock()
            __scsi_scan_target()
                ...
        scsi_report_lun_scan()
            ...
        scsi_get_host_dev()
            mutex_lock()

    scsi_probe_and_add_lun()
        ...

    scsi_add_lun()
        scsi_probe_and_add_lun()
            ...

So replace all these, and give them a bit of a better chance to succeed,
with more chances of reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-04-05 22:31:30 +02:00
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