block: defer timeouts to a workqueue

Timer context is not very useful for drivers to perform any meaningful abort
action from.  So instead of calling the driver from this useless context
defer it to a workqueue as soon as possible.

Note that while a delayed_work item would seem the right thing here I didn't
dare to use it due to the magic in blk_add_timer that pokes deep into timer
internals.  But maybe this encourages Tejun to add a sensible API for that to
the workqueue API and we'll all be fine in the end :)

Contains a major update from Keith Bush:

"This patch removes synchronizing the timeout work so that the timer can
 start a freeze on its own queue. The timer enters the queue, so timer
 context can only start a freeze, but not wait for frozen."

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
index c43926d..70e4aee 100644
--- a/block/blk.h
+++ b/block/blk.h
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static inline void blk_flush_integrity(void)
 }
 #endif
 
-void blk_rq_timed_out_timer(unsigned long data);
+void blk_timeout_work(struct work_struct *work);
 unsigned long blk_rq_timeout(unsigned long timeout);
 void blk_add_timer(struct request *req);
 void blk_delete_timer(struct request *);