From: Dave Kleikamp Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 19:24:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: JFS: Fix race waking up jfsIO kernel thread X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=05ec9e26be1f668ccba4ca54d9a4966c6208c611;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git JFS: Fix race waking up jfsIO kernel thread It's possible for a journal I/O request to be added to the log_redrive queue and the jfsIO thread to be awakened after the thread releases log_redrive_lock but before it sets its state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. The jfsIO thread should set the state before giving up the spinlock, so the waking thread will really wake it. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp --- diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c index ff7f1beec30d..16c62680fcd6 100644 --- a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c +++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c @@ -2354,12 +2354,13 @@ int jfsIOWait(void *arg) lbmStartIO(bp); spin_lock_irq(&log_redrive_lock); } - spin_unlock_irq(&log_redrive_lock); if (freezing(current)) { + spin_unlock_irq(&log_redrive_lock); refrigerator(); } else { set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + spin_unlock_irq(&log_redrive_lock); schedule(); __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); }