Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomic

Merge reason:
	Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
	pointers

Resolved Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
	arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

3 files changed, 37 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
index 4bd882548c45..ecb44c94ba8d 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/jbd.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
-#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/bio.h>
@@ -862,12 +861,12 @@ restart_loop:
                 /* A buffer which has been freed while still being
                  * journaled by a previous transaction may end up still
                  * being dirty here, but we want to avoid writing back
-                 * that buffer in the future now that the last use has
-                 * been committed.  That's not only a performance gain,
-                 * it also stops aliasing problems if the buffer is left
-                 * behind for writeback and gets reallocated for another
+                 * that buffer in the future after the "add to orphan"
+                 * operation been committed,  That's not only a performance
+                 * gain, it also stops aliasing problems if the buffer is
+                 * left behind for writeback and gets reallocated for another
                  * use in a different page. */
-                if (buffer_freed(bh)) {
+                if (buffer_freed(bh) && !jh->b_next_transaction) {
                         clear_buffer_freed(bh);
                         clear_buffer_jbddirty(bh);
                 }
diff --git a/fs/jbd/recovery.c b/fs/jbd/recovery.c
index cb1a49ae605e..54c9bc9e1b17 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/recovery.c
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/jbd.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
-#include <linux/slab.h>
 #endif
 
 /*
diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
index 006f9ad838a2..5ae71e75a491 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@ int journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
          * the case where our storage is so fast that it is more optimal to go
          * ahead and force a flush and wait for the transaction to be committed
          * than it is to wait for an arbitrary amount of time for new writers to
-         * join the transaction.  We acheive this by measuring how long it takes
+         * join the transaction.  We achieve this by measuring how long it takes
          * to commit a transaction, and compare it with how long this
          * transaction has been running, and if run time < commit time then we
          * sleep for the delta and commit.  This greatly helps super fast disks
@@ -1864,6 +1864,21 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_t *journal, struct buffer_head *bh)
         if (!jh)
                 goto zap_buffer_no_jh;
 
+        /*
+         * We cannot remove the buffer from checkpoint lists until the
+         * transaction adding inode to orphan list (let's call it T)
+         * is committed.  Otherwise if the transaction changing the
+         * buffer would be cleaned from the journal before T is
+         * committed, a crash will cause that the correct contents of
+         * the buffer will be lost.  On the other hand we have to
+         * clear the buffer dirty bit at latest at the moment when the
+         * transaction marking the buffer as freed in the filesystem
+         * structures is committed because from that moment on the
+         * buffer can be reallocated and used by a different page.
+         * Since the block hasn't been freed yet but the inode has
+         * already been added to orphan list, it is safe for us to add
+         * the buffer to BJ_Forget list of the newest transaction.
+         */
         transaction = jh->b_transaction;
         if (transaction == NULL) {
                 /* First case: not on any transaction.  If it
@@ -1929,16 +1944,15 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_t *journal, struct buffer_head *bh)
                         goto zap_buffer;
                 }
                 /*
-                 * If it is committing, we simply cannot touch it.  We
-                 * can remove it's next_transaction pointer from the
-                 * running transaction if that is set, but nothing
-                 * else. */
+                 * The buffer is committing, we simply cannot touch
+                 * it. So we just set j_next_transaction to the
+                 * running transaction (if there is one) and mark
+                 * buffer as freed so that commit code knows it should
+                 * clear dirty bits when it is done with the buffer.
+                 */
                 set_buffer_freed(bh);
-                if (jh->b_next_transaction) {
-                        J_ASSERT(jh->b_next_transaction ==
-                                        journal->j_running_transaction);
-                        jh->b_next_transaction = NULL;
-                }
+                if (journal->j_running_transaction && buffer_jbddirty(bh))
+                        jh->b_next_transaction = journal->j_running_transaction;
                 journal_put_journal_head(jh);
                 spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
                 jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
@@ -2120,7 +2134,7 @@ void journal_file_buffer(struct journal_head *jh,
  */
 void __journal_refile_buffer(struct journal_head *jh)
 {
-        int was_dirty;
+        int was_dirty, jlist;
         struct buffer_head *bh = jh2bh(jh);
 
         J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jbd_is_locked_bh_state(bh));
@@ -2142,8 +2156,13 @@ void __journal_refile_buffer(struct journal_head *jh)
         __journal_temp_unlink_buffer(jh);
         jh->b_transaction = jh->b_next_transaction;
         jh->b_next_transaction = NULL;
-        __journal_file_buffer(jh, jh->b_transaction,
-                                jh->b_modified ? BJ_Metadata : BJ_Reserved);
+        if (buffer_freed(bh))
+                jlist = BJ_Forget;
+        else if (jh->b_modified)
+                jlist = BJ_Metadata;
+        else
+                jlist = BJ_Reserved;
+        __journal_file_buffer(jh, jh->b_transaction, jlist);
         J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction->t_state == T_RUNNING);
 
         if (was_dirty)