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/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
index c43926d..70e4aee 100644
--- a/block/blk.h
+++ b/block/blk.h
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
}
#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 *);