1 files changed, 45 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index c067a8cae63b..17f557f01cf0 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -331,6 +331,10 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
 	struct buffer_head *cbh = NULL; /* For transactional checksums */
 	__u32 crc32_sum = ~0;
 	struct blk_plug plug;
+	/* Tail of the journal */
+	unsigned long first_block;
+	tid_t first_tid;
+	int update_tail;
 
 	/*
 	 * First job: lock down the current transaction and wait for
@@ -340,7 +344,18 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
 	/* Do we need to erase the effects of a prior jbd2_journal_flush? */
 	if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_FLUSHED) {
 		jbd_debug(3, "super block updated\n");
-		jbd2_journal_update_superblock(journal, 1);
+		mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
+		/*
+		 * We hold j_checkpoint_mutex so tail cannot change under us.
+		 * We don't need any special data guarantees for writing sb
+		 * since journal is empty and it is ok for write to be
+		 * flushed only with transaction commit.
+		 */
+		jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail(journal,
+						journal->j_tail_sequence,
+						journal->j_tail,
+						WRITE_SYNC);
+		mutex_unlock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
 	} else {
 		jbd_debug(3, "superblock not updated\n");
 	}
@@ -677,10 +692,30 @@ start_journal_io:
 		err = 0;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Get current oldest transaction in the log before we issue flush
+	 * to the filesystem device. After the flush we can be sure that
+	 * blocks of all older transactions are checkpointed to persistent
+	 * storage and we will be safe to update journal start in the
+	 * superblock with the numbers we get here.
+	 */
+	update_tail =
+		jbd2_journal_get_log_tail(journal, &first_tid, &first_block);
+
 	write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+	if (update_tail) {
+		long freed = first_block - journal->j_tail;
+
+		if (first_block < journal->j_tail)
+			freed += journal->j_last - journal->j_first;
+		/* Update tail only if we free significant amount of space */
+		if (freed < journal->j_maxlen / 4)
+			update_tail = 0;
+	}
 	J_ASSERT(commit_transaction->t_state == T_COMMIT);
 	commit_transaction->t_state = T_COMMIT_DFLUSH;
 	write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+
 	/* 
 	 * If the journal is not located on the file system device,
 	 * then we must flush the file system device before we issue
@@ -831,6 +866,14 @@ wait_for_iobuf:
 	if (err)
 		jbd2_journal_abort(journal, err);
 
+	/*
+	 * Now disk caches for filesystem device are flushed so we are safe to
+	 * erase checkpointed transactions from the log by updating journal
+	 * superblock.
+	 */
+	if (update_tail)
+		jbd2_update_log_tail(journal, first_tid, first_block);
+
 	/* End of a transaction!  Finally, we can do checkpoint
            processing: any buffers committed as a result of this
            transaction can be removed from any checkpoint list it was on
@@ -1048,7 +1091,7 @@ restart_loop:
 	jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: commit %d complete, head %d\n",
 		  journal->j_commit_sequence, journal->j_tail_sequence);
 	if (to_free)
-		kfree(commit_transaction);
+		jbd2_journal_free_transaction(commit_transaction);
 
 	wake_up(&journal->j_wait_done_commit);
 }