diff --git a/block/blk-mq-tag.c b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
index 8317175a3009..728b9a4d5f56 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-tag.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
@@ -584,6 +584,34 @@ int blk_mq_tag_update_depth(struct blk_mq_tags *tags, unsigned int tdepth)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * blk_mq_unique_tag() - return a tag that is unique queue-wide
+ * @rq: request for which to compute a unique tag
+ *
+ * The tag field in struct request is unique per hardware queue but not over
+ * all hardware queues. Hence this function that returns a tag with the
+ * hardware context index in the upper bits and the per hardware queue tag in
+ * the lower bits.
+ *
+ * Note: When called for a request that is queued on a non-multiqueue request
+ * queue, the hardware context index is set to zero.
+ */
+u32 blk_mq_unique_tag(struct request *rq)
+{
+	struct request_queue *q = rq->q;
+	struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
+	int hwq = 0;
+
+	if (q->mq_ops) {
+		hctx = q->mq_ops->map_queue(q, rq->mq_ctx->cpu);
+		hwq = hctx->queue_num;
+	}
+
+	return (hwq << BLK_MQ_UNIQUE_TAG_BITS) |
+		(rq->tag & BLK_MQ_UNIQUE_TAG_MASK);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_mq_unique_tag);
+
 ssize_t blk_mq_tag_sysfs_show(struct blk_mq_tags *tags, char *page)
 {
 	char *orig_page = page;
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 68929bad9a6a..b5896d436fc9 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -2024,6 +2024,8 @@ static int blk_mq_alloc_rq_maps(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set)
  */
 int blk_mq_alloc_tag_set(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set)
 {
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(BLK_MQ_MAX_DEPTH > 1 << BLK_MQ_UNIQUE_TAG_BITS);
+
 	if (!set->nr_hw_queues)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!set->queue_depth)
diff --git a/include/linux/blk-mq.h b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
index c9be1589415a..15f7034aa377 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk-mq.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
@@ -167,6 +167,23 @@ struct request *blk_mq_alloc_request(struct request_queue *q, int rw,
 		gfp_t gfp, bool reserved);
 struct request *blk_mq_tag_to_rq(struct blk_mq_tags *tags, unsigned int tag);
 
+enum {
+	BLK_MQ_UNIQUE_TAG_BITS = 16,
+	BLK_MQ_UNIQUE_TAG_MASK = (1 << BLK_MQ_UNIQUE_TAG_BITS) - 1,
+};
+
+u32 blk_mq_unique_tag(struct request *rq);
+
+static inline u16 blk_mq_unique_tag_to_hwq(u32 unique_tag)
+{
+	return unique_tag >> BLK_MQ_UNIQUE_TAG_BITS;
+}
+
+static inline u16 blk_mq_unique_tag_to_tag(u32 unique_tag)
+{
+	return unique_tag & BLK_MQ_UNIQUE_TAG_MASK;
+}
+
 struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *blk_mq_map_queue(struct request_queue *, const int ctx_index);
 struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *blk_mq_alloc_single_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_tag_set *, unsigned int, int);