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>
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index e711f29..221dc3b 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -407,6 +407,7 @@
unsigned int rq_timeout;
struct timer_list timeout;
+ struct work_struct timeout_work;
struct list_head timeout_list;
struct list_head icq_list;