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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from sct fixes a long-standing (I did it!) and rather complex problem with ext3. The problem is to do with buffers which are continually being dirtied by an external agent. I had code in there (for easily-triggerable livelock avoidance) which steals the buffer from checkpoint mode and reattaches it to the running transaction. This violates ext3 ordering requirements - it can permit journal space to be reclaimed before the relevant data has really been written out. Also, we do have to reliably get a lock on the buffer when moving it between lists and inspecting its internal state. Otherwise a competing read from the underlying block device can trigger an assertion failure, and a competing write to the underlying block device can confuse ext3 journalling state completely.
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