There may be lots of pending requests so that the buffer of PAGE_SIZE
can't hold them at all.
One typical example is scsi-mq, the queue depth(.can_queue) of
scsi_host and blk-mq is quite big but scsi_device's queue_depth
is a bit small(.cmd_per_lun), then it is quite easy to have lots
of pending requests in hw queue.
This patch fixes the following warning and the related memory
destruction.
[ 359.025101] fill_read_buffer: blk_mq_hw_sysfs_show+0x0/0x7d returned bad count^M
[ 359.055595] irq event stamp: 15537^M
[ 359.055606] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ^M
[ 359.055614] Dumping ftrace buffer:^M
[ 359.055660] (ftrace buffer empty)^M
[ 359.055672] Modules linked in: nbd ipv6 kvm_intel kvm serio_raw^M
[ 359.055678] CPU: 4 PID: 21631 Comm: stress-ng-sysfs Not tainted 4.2.0-rc5-next-20150805 #434^M
[ 359.055679] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011^M
[ 359.055682] task: ffff8802161cc000 ti: ffff88021b4a8000 task.ti: ffff88021b4a8000^M
[ 359.055693] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811541c5>] [<ffffffff811541c5>] __kmalloc+0xe8/0x152^M
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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