Merge 2.6.38-rc6 into tty-next

This was to resolve a merge issue with drivers/char/Makefile and
drivers/tty/serial/68328serial.c

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 9e4686900f18..97e73469b2c4 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -473,7 +473,8 @@ int __jbd2_log_space_left(journal_t *journal)
 }
 
 /*
- * Called under j_state_lock.  Returns true if a transaction commit was started.
+ * Called with j_state_lock locked for writing.
+ * Returns true if a transaction commit was started.
  */
 int __jbd2_log_start_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t target)
 {
@@ -520,11 +521,13 @@ int jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested(journal_t *journal)
 {
 	transaction_t *transaction = NULL;
 	tid_t tid;
+	int need_to_start = 0;
 
 	read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 	if (journal->j_running_transaction && !current->journal_info) {
 		transaction = journal->j_running_transaction;
-		__jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, transaction->t_tid);
+		if (!tid_geq(journal->j_commit_request, transaction->t_tid))
+			need_to_start = 1;
 	} else if (journal->j_committing_transaction)
 		transaction = journal->j_committing_transaction;
 
@@ -535,6 +538,8 @@ int jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested(journal_t *journal)
 
 	tid = transaction->t_tid;
 	read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+	if (need_to_start)
+		jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, tid);
 	jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, tid);
 	return 1;
 }