This backport applies (with mild offset) to both v5.4.67 and v5.8.11:
>From ee1dfad5325ff1cfb2239e564cd411b3bfe8667a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:04:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] dm: fix bio splitting and its bio completion order for regular IO
dm_queue_split() is removed because __split_and_process_bio() _must_
handle splitting bios to ensure proper bio submission and completion
ordering as a bio is split.
Otherwise, multiple recursive calls to ->submit_bio will cause multiple
split bios to be allocated from the same ->bio_split mempool at the same
time. This would result in deadlock in low memory conditions because no
progress could be made (only one bio is available in ->bio_split
mempool).
This fix has been verified to still fix the loss of performance, due
to excess splitting, that commit 120c9257f5f1 provided.
Fixes: 120c9257f5f1 ("Revert "dm: always call blk_queue_split() in dm_process_bio()"")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.0+, requires custom backport due to 5.9 changes
Reported-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c 2020-09-21 18:46:16.000000000 -0400
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c 2020-09-21 18:33:21.000000000 -0400
@@ -1727,23 +1727,6 @@
return ret;
}
-static void dm_queue_split(struct mapped_device *md, struct dm_target *ti, struct bio **bio)
-{
- unsigned len, sector_count;
-
- sector_count = bio_sectors(*bio);
- len = min_t(sector_t, max_io_len((*bio)->bi_iter.bi_sector, ti), sector_count);
-
- if (sector_count > len) {
- struct bio *split = bio_split(*bio, len, GFP_NOIO, &md->queue->bio_split);
-
- bio_chain(split, *bio);
- trace_block_split(md->queue, split, (*bio)->bi_iter.bi_sector);
- generic_make_request(*bio);
- *bio = split;
- }
-}
-
static blk_qc_t dm_process_bio(struct mapped_device *md,
struct dm_table *map, struct bio *bio)
{
@@ -1773,14 +1756,12 @@
if (current->bio_list) {
if (is_abnormal_io(bio))
blk_queue_split(md->queue, &bio);
- else
- dm_queue_split(md, ti, &bio);
+ /* regular IO is split by __split_and_process_bio */
}
if (dm_get_md_type(md) == DM_TYPE_NVME_BIO_BASED)
return __process_bio(md, map, bio, ti);
- else
- return __split_and_process_bio(md, map, bio);
+ return __split_and_process_bio(md, map, bio);
}
static blk_qc_t dm_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
