nvme-multipath: introduce delayed removal of the multipath head node

Currently, the multipath head node of an NVMe disk is removed
immediately as soon as all paths of the disk are removed. However,
this can cause issues in scenarios where:

- The disk hot-removal followed by re-addition.
- Transient PCIe link failures that trigger re-enumeration,
  temporarily removing and then restoring the disk.

In these cases, removing the head node prematurely may lead to a head
disk node name change upon re-addition, requiring applications to
reopen their handles if they were performing I/O during the failure.

To address this, introduce a delayed removal mechanism of head disk
node. During transient failure, instead of immediate removal of head
disk node, the system waits for a configurable timeout, allowing the
disk to recover.

During transient disk failure, if application sends any IO then we
queue it instead of failing such IO immediately. If the disk comes back
online within the timeout, the queued IOs are resubmitted to the disk
ensuring seamless operation. In case disk couldn't recover from the
failure then queued IOs are failed to its completion and application
receives the error.

So this way, if disk comes back online within the configured period,
the head node remains unchanged, ensuring uninterrupted workloads
without requiring applications to reopen device handles.

A new sysfs attribute, named "delayed_removal_secs" is added under head
disk blkdev for user who wish to configure time for the delayed removal
of head disk node. The default value of this attribute is set to zero
second ensuring no behavior change unless explicitly configured.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/Y9oGTKCFlOscbPc2@infradead.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/Y+1aKcQgbskA2tra@kbusch-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
Suggested-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
[nilay: reworked based on the original idea/POC from Christoph and Keith]
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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