It could happen that some limit has been set via quotactl() and in parallel ->mark_dirty() is called from another thread doing e.g. dquot_alloc_space(). In such case ocfs2_write_dquot() must not try to sync the dquot because that needs global quota lock but that ranks above transaction start.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> --- fs/ocfs2/quota_global.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/quota_global.c b/fs/ocfs2/quota_global.c index f4efa89..1ed0f7c 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/quota_global.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/quota_global.c @@ -754,7 +754,9 @@ static int ocfs2_mark_dquot_dirty(struct dquot *dquot) if (dquot->dq_flags & mask) sync = 1; spin_unlock(&dq_data_lock); - if (!sync) { + /* This is a slight hack but we can't afford getting global quota + * lock if we already have a transaction started. */ + if (!sync || journal_current_handle()) { status = ocfs2_write_dquot(dquot); goto out; } -- 1.6.0.2 _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel
