nvme: provide fallback for discard alloc failure

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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

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