jbd: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound
In the case where an inode has a very stale transaction id (tid) in i_datasync_tid or i_sync_tid, it's possible that after a very large (2**31) number of transactions, that the tid number space might wrap, causing tid_geq()'s calculations to fail. Commit d9b01934 "jbd: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug" attempted to fix this problem, but it only avoided kjournald spinning forever by fixing the logic in jbd_log_start_commit(). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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