block: add documentation for io_timeout

Add documentation for /sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_timeout.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block

@@ -279,3 +279,12 @@ Description:
 		size in 512B sectors of the zones of the device, with
 		the eventual exception of the last zone of the device
 		which may be smaller.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_timeout
+Date:		November 2018
+Contact:	Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>
+Description:
+		io_timeout is the request timeout in milliseconds. If a request
+		does not complete in this time then the block driver timeout
+		handler is invoked. That timeout handler can decide to retry
+		the request, to fail it or to start a device recovery strategy.

Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt

@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ If set to a value larger than 0, the kernel will put the process issuing
 IO to sleep for this amount of microseconds before entering classic
 polling.
 
+io_timeout (RW)
+---------------
+io_timeout is the request timeout in milliseconds. If a request does not
+complete in this time then the block driver timeout handler is invoked.
+That timeout handler can decide to retry the request, to fail it or to start
+a device recovery strategy.
+
 iostats (RW)
 -------------
 This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats accounting of the