Merge branch 'linux-2.6'

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / fs / jbd / commit.c

diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
index 8f1f2aa5fb39b2df5b744c2f7e495145cf1b2df8..610264b99a8e8bb357ed46dc9a08735443ab2659 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -858,10 +858,10 @@ restart_loop:
        }
        spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
        /*
-        * This is a bit sleazy.  We borrow j_list_lock to protect
-        * journal->j_committing_transaction in __journal_remove_checkpoint.
-        * Really, __journal_remove_checkpoint should be using j_state_lock but
-        * it's a bit hassle to hold that across __journal_remove_checkpoint
+        * This is a bit sleazy.  We use j_list_lock to protect transition
+        * of a transaction into T_FINISHED state and calling
+        * __journal_drop_transaction(). Otherwise we could race with
+        * other checkpointing code processing the transaction...
         */
        spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
        spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);