block: fix elvpriv allocation failure handling
Request allocation is mempool backed to guarantee forward progress
under memory pressure; unfortunately, this property got broken while
adding elvpriv data. Failures during elvpriv allocation, including
ioc and icq creation failures, currently make get_request() fail as
whole. There's no forward progress guarantee for these allocations -
they may fail indefinitely under memory pressure stalling IO and
deadlocking the system.
This patch updates get_request() such that elvpriv allocation failure
doesn't make the whole function fail. If elvpriv allocation fails,
the allocation is degraded into !ELVPRIV. This will force the request
to ELEVATOR_INSERT_BACK disturbing scheduling but elvpriv alloc
failures should be rare (nothing is per-request) and anything is
better than deadlocking.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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