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[PATCH] ocfs2: don't wait on recovery when locking journal

The mount path had incorrectly asked the locking code to wait for recovery
completion, which deadlocks things because recovery waits for mount to
complete first.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh 19 years ago
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      fs/ocfs2/journal.c

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fs/ocfs2/journal.c

@@ -560,7 +560,11 @@ int ocfs2_journal_init(struct ocfs2_journal *journal, int *dirty)
 	SET_INODE_JOURNAL(inode);
 	OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_open_count++;
 
-	status = ocfs2_meta_lock(inode, NULL, &bh, 1);
+	/* Skip recovery waits here - journal inode metadata never
+	 * changes in a live cluster so it can be considered an
+	 * exception to the rule. */
+	status = ocfs2_meta_lock_full(inode, NULL, &bh, 1,
+				      OCFS2_META_LOCK_RECOVERY);
 	if (status < 0) {
 		if (status != -ERESTARTSYS)
 			mlog(ML_ERROR, "Could not get lock on journal!\n");