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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
index f94fc48ff3a0..5c93ffce6e70 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
@@ -453,8 +453,6 @@ out:
*
* Return <0 on error, 0 on success, 1 if there was nothing to clean up.
*
- * Called with the journal lock held.
- *
* This is the only part of the journaling code which really needs to be
* aware of transaction aborts. Checkpointing involves writing to the
* main filesystem area rather than to the journal, so it can proceed
@@ -472,13 +470,14 @@ int cleanup_journal_tail(journal_t *journal)
if (is_journal_aborted(journal))
return 1;
- /* OK, work out the oldest transaction remaining in the log, and
+ /*
+ * OK, work out the oldest transaction remaining in the log, and
* the log block it starts at.
*
* If the log is now empty, we need to work out which is the
* next transaction ID we will write, and where it will
- * start. */
-
+ * start.
+ */
spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
transaction = journal->j_checkpoint_transactions;
@@ -504,7 +503,25 @@ int cleanup_journal_tail(journal_t *journal)
spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
return 1;
}
+ spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+
+ /*
+ * We need to make sure that any blocks that were recently written out
+ * --- perhaps by log_do_checkpoint() --- are flushed out before we
+ * drop the transactions from the journal. It's unlikely this will be
+ * necessary, especially with an appropriately sized journal, but we
+ * need this to guarantee correctness. Fortunately
+ * cleanup_journal_tail() doesn't get called all that often.
+ */
+ if (journal->j_flags & JFS_BARRIER)
+ blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+ spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ if (!tid_gt(first_tid, journal->j_tail_sequence)) {
+ spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ /* Someone else cleaned up journal so return 0 */
+ return 0;
+ }
/* OK, update the superblock to recover the freed space.
* Physical blocks come first: have we wrapped beyond the end of
* the log? */