System hang due to I/O stall on ATA VMware Virtual I device

Issue

• System hang due to I/O stall on ATA VMware Virtual I device:

INFO: task kswapd0:406 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
      Not tainted 4.18.0-348.2.1.el8_5.x86_64 #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kswapd0         state:D stack:    0 pid:  406 ppid:     2 flags:0x80004000
Call Trace:
 __schedule+0x2c4/0x700
 schedule+0x37/0xa0
 io_schedule+0x12/0x40
 blk_mq_get_tag+0x121/0x280
 ? wbt_exit+0x30/0x30
 ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
 __blk_mq_alloc_request+0x47/0x100
 blk_mq_make_request+0x14f/0x5b0
 ? dm_make_request+0x172/0x3d0 [dm_mod]
 generic_make_request+0x2db/0x340
 ? end_swap_bio_read+0xe0/0xe0
 submit_bio+0x3c/0x160
 __swap_writepage+0x126/0x400
 ? __frontswap_store+0x6e/0xf0
 shmem_writepage+0x1b7/0x340
 pageout+0xf8/0x2f0
 shrink_page_list+0xa07/0xc80
 shrink_inactive_list+0x19e/0x3e0
 shrink_lruvec+0x3a9/0x640
 shrink_node+0x184/0x6b0
 balance_pgdat+0x2d7/0x550
 ? __switch_to_asm+0x41/0x70
 kswapd+0x201/0x3c0
 ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
 ? balance_pgdat+0x550/0x550
 kthread+0x116/0x130
 ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40