Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index eb343008eded..58144102bf25 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ int __jbd2_log_space_left(journal_t *journal)
 }
 
 /*
- * Called under j_state_lock.  Returns true if a transaction was started.
+ * Called under j_state_lock.  Returns true if a transaction commit was started.
  */
 int __jbd2_log_start_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t target)
 {
@@ -518,7 +518,8 @@ int jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested(journal_t *journal)
 
 /*
  * Start a commit of the current running transaction (if any).  Returns true
- * if a transaction was started, and fills its tid in at *ptid
+ * if a transaction is going to be committed (or is currently already
+ * committing), and fills its tid in at *ptid
  */
 int jbd2_journal_start_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t *ptid)
 {
@@ -528,15 +529,19 @@ int jbd2_journal_start_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t *ptid)
 	if (journal->j_running_transaction) {
 		tid_t tid = journal->j_running_transaction->t_tid;
 
-		ret = __jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, tid);
-		if (ret && ptid)
+		__jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, tid);
+		/* There's a running transaction and we've just made sure
+		 * it's commit has been scheduled. */
+		if (ptid)
 			*ptid = tid;
-	} else if (journal->j_committing_transaction && ptid) {
+		ret = 1;
+	} else if (journal->j_committing_transaction) {
 		/*
 		 * If ext3_write_super() recently started a commit, then we
 		 * have to wait for completion of that transaction
 		 */
-		*ptid = journal->j_committing_transaction->t_tid;
+		if (ptid)
+			*ptid = journal->j_committing_transaction->t_tid;
 		ret = 1;
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);