From: Mark Fasheh It seems that kjournald() may be missing a check of the JFS_UNMOUNT flag before calling schedule(). This showed up in testing of OCFS2 recovery where our recovery thread would hang in journal_kill_thread() called from journal_destroy() because kjournald never got a chance to read the flag to shut down before the schedule(). Zach pointed out the missing check which led me to hack up this trivial patch. It's been tested many times now and I have yet to reproduce the hang, which was happening very regularly before. I'm guessing that we could really use some wait_event() calls with helper functions in, well, most of jbd these days which would make a ton of the wait code there vastly cleaner. As for why this doesn't happen in ext3 (or OCFS2 during normal mount/unmount of the local nodes journal), I think it may that the specific timing of events in the ocfs2 recovery thread exposes a race there. Because ocfs2_replay_journal() is only interested in playing back the journal, initialization and shutdown happen very quicky with no other metadata put into that specific journal. Acked-by: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/jbd/journal.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/jbd/journal.c~kjournald-missing-jfs_unmount-check fs/jbd/journal.c --- devel/fs/jbd/journal.c~kjournald-missing-jfs_unmount-check 2005-07-26 00:38:15.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/fs/jbd/journal.c 2005-07-26 00:38:15.000000000 -0700 @@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ loop: if (transaction && time_after_eq(jiffies, transaction->t_expires)) should_sleep = 0; + if (journal->j_flags & JFS_UNMOUNT) + should_sleep = 0; if (should_sleep) { spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); schedule(); _