[PATCH] jbd wakeup fix
Processes can sleep in do_get_write_access(), waiting for buffers to be removed from the BJ_Shadow state. We did this by doing a wake_up_buffer() in the commit path and sleeping on the buffer in do_get_write_access(). With the filtered bit-level wakeup code this doesn't work properly any more - the wake_up_buffer() accidentally wakes up tasks which are sleeping in lock_buffer() as well. Those tasks now implicitly assume that the buffer came unlocked. Net effect: Bogus I/O errors when reading journal blocks, because the buffer isn't up to date yet. Hence the recently spate of journal_bmap() failure reports. The patch creates a new jbd-private BH flag purely for this wakeup function. So a wake_up_bit(..., BH_Unshadow) doesn't wake up someone who is waiting for a wake_up_bit(BH_Lock). JBD was the only user of wake_up_buffer(), so remove it altogether. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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