From 53fdcf992d616484d388a8ab9dad07dc8b8f1178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:30:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: don't hold spinlock while calling ext4_issue_discard()

We can't hold the block group spinlock because we ext4_issue_discard()
calls wait and hence can get rescheduled.

Google-Bug-Id: 3017678

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 53472e27b327..ccdfec6acb75 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4696,12 +4696,12 @@ void ext4_free_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 		 * with group lock held. generate_buddy look at
 		 * them with group lock_held
 		 */
+		if (test_opt(sb, DISCARD))
+			ext4_issue_discard(sb, block_group, bit, count);
 		ext4_lock_group(sb, block_group);
 		mb_clear_bits(bitmap_bh->b_data, bit, count);
 		mb_free_blocks(inode, &e4b, bit, count);
 		ext4_mb_return_to_preallocation(inode, &e4b, block, count);
-		if (test_opt(sb, DISCARD))
-			ext4_issue_discard(sb, block_group, bit, count);
 	}
 
 	ret = ext4_free_blks_count(sb, gdp) + count;
-- 
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