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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jbd/commit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jbd/commit.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c index 8f1f2aa5fb39..610264b99a8e 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/commit.c +++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c @@ -858,10 +858,10 @@ restart_loop: } spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); /* - * This is a bit sleazy. We borrow j_list_lock to protect - * journal->j_committing_transaction in __journal_remove_checkpoint. - * Really, __journal_remove_checkpoint should be using j_state_lock but - * it's a bit hassle to hold that across __journal_remove_checkpoint + * This is a bit sleazy. We use j_list_lock to protect transition + * of a transaction into T_FINISHED state and calling + * __journal_drop_transaction(). Otherwise we could race with + * other checkpointing code processing the transaction... */ spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); |