3 files changed, 27 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
index ca0f5eb62b20..886849370950 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/jbd2.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <trace/events/jbd2.h>
 
 /*
@@ -515,6 +516,20 @@ int jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail(journal_t *journal)
         journal->j_tail_sequence = first_tid;
         journal->j_tail = blocknr;
         spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+
+        /*
+         * If there is an external journal, we need to make sure that
+         * any data blocks that were recently written out --- perhaps
+         * by jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() --- are flushed out before we
+         * drop the transactions from the external journal.  It's
+         * unlikely this will be necessary, especially with a
+         * appropriately sized journal, but we need this to guarantee
+         * correctness.  Fortunately jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()
+         * doesn't get called all that often.
+         */
+        if ((journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) &&
+            (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
+                blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, NULL);
         if (!(journal->j_flags & JBD2_ABORT))
                 jbd2_journal_update_superblock(journal, 1);
         return 0;
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index 6a10238d2c63..1bc74b6f26d2 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static int journal_submit_data_buffers(journal_t *journal,
                         ret = err;
                 spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
                 J_ASSERT(jinode->i_transaction == commit_transaction);
+                commit_transaction->t_flushed_data_blocks = 1;
                 jinode->i_flags &= ~JI_COMMIT_RUNNING;
                 wake_up_bit(&jinode->i_flags, __JI_COMMIT_RUNNING);
         }
@@ -708,8 +709,17 @@ start_journal_io:
                 }
         }
 
-        /* Done it all: now write the commit record asynchronously. */
+        /* 
+         * If the journal is not located on the file system device,
+         * then we must flush the file system device before we issue
+         * the commit record
+         */
+        if (commit_transaction->t_flushed_data_blocks &&
+            (journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) &&
+            (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
+                blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, NULL);
 
+        /* Done it all: now write the commit record asynchronously. */
         if (JBD2_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(journal,
                                       JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT)) {
                 err = journal_submit_commit_record(journal, commit_transaction,
@@ -720,13 +730,6 @@ start_journal_io:
                         blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_dev, NULL);
         }
 
-        /*
-         * This is the right place to wait for data buffers both for ASYNC
-         * and !ASYNC commit. If commit is ASYNC, we need to wait only after
-         * the commit block went to disk (which happens above). If commit is
-         * SYNC, we need to wait for data buffers before we start writing
-         * commit block, which happens below in such setting.
-         */
         err = journal_finish_inode_data_buffers(journal, commit_transaction);
         if (err) {
                 printk(KERN_WARNING
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 17af879e6e9e..ac0d027595d0 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ static journal_t * journal_init_common (void)
         journal_t *journal;
         int err;
 
-        journal = kzalloc(sizeof(*journal), GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOFAIL);
+        journal = kzalloc(sizeof(*journal), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!journal)
                 goto fail;