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, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 93a4e1956915..9cb2894840ab 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -615,15 +615,19 @@ static void blk_mq_check_expired(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
 	}
 }
 
-static void blk_mq_rq_timer(unsigned long priv)
+static void blk_mq_timeout_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {
-	struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)priv;
+	struct request_queue *q =
+		container_of(work, struct request_queue, timeout_work);
 	struct blk_mq_timeout_data data = {
 		.next		= 0,
 		.next_set	= 0,
 	};
 	int i;
 
+	if (blk_queue_enter(q, true))
+		return;
+
 	blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter(q, blk_mq_check_expired, &data);
 
 	if (data.next_set) {
@@ -638,6 +642,7 @@ static void blk_mq_rq_timer(unsigned long priv)
 				blk_mq_tag_idle(hctx);
 		}
 	}
+	blk_queue_exit(q);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2015,7 +2020,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_mq_init_allocated_queue(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
 		hctxs[i]->queue_num = i;
 	}
 
-	setup_timer(&q->timeout, blk_mq_rq_timer, (unsigned long) q);
+	INIT_WORK(&q->timeout_work, blk_mq_timeout_work);
 	blk_queue_rq_timeout(q, set->timeout ? set->timeout : 30 * HZ);
 
 	q->nr_queues = nr_cpu_ids;