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Commit 98114659 authored by Josef Bacik's avatar Josef Bacik Committed by Chris Mason
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Btrfs: fix race with freeze and free space inodes



So we start our freeze, somebody comes in and does an fsync() on a file
where we have to commit a transaction for whatever reason, and we will
deadlock because the freeze is waiting on FS_FREEZE people to stop writing
to the file system, but the transaction is waiting for its free space inodes
to be written out, which are in turn waiting on sb_start_intwrite while
trying to write the file extents.  To fix this we'll just skip the
sb_start_intwrite() if we TRANS_JOIN_NOLOCK since we're being waited on by a
transaction commit so we're safe wrt to freeze and this will keep us from
deadlocking.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
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