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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jbd/checkpoint.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jbd/checkpoint.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c index fe8521933243..1bd8d4acc6f2 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c +++ b/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c @@ -127,14 +127,29 @@ void __log_wait_for_space(journal_t *journal) /* * Test again, another process may have checkpointed while we - * were waiting for the checkpoint lock + * were waiting for the checkpoint lock. If there are no + * outstanding transactions there is nothing to checkpoint and + * we can't make progress. Abort the journal in this case. */ spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); + spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); nblocks = jbd_space_needed(journal); if (__log_space_left(journal) < nblocks) { + int chkpt = journal->j_checkpoint_transactions != NULL; + + spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); - log_do_checkpoint(journal); + if (chkpt) { + log_do_checkpoint(journal); + } else { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: no transactions\n", + __func__); + journal_abort(journal, 0); + } + spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); + } else { + spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); } mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex); } |