Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into staging/for_v3.8

* linus/master: (1428 commits)
  futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q
  watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()
  writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion
  mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled
  Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"
  proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing
  UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation
  include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID
  Linux 3.7-rc7
  powerpc/eeh: Do not invalidate PE properly
  ALSA: hda - Fix build without CONFIG_PM
  of/address: sparc: Declare of_iomap as an extern function for sparc again
  PM / QoS: fix wrong error-checking condition
  bnx2x: remove redundant warning log
  vxlan: fix command usage in its doc
  8139cp: revert "set ring address before enabling receiver"
  MPI: Fix compilation on MIPS with GCC 4.4 and newer
  MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing is enabled
  MIPS: Merge overlapping bootmem ranges
  jbd: Fix lock ordering bug in journal_unmap_buffer()
  ...

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
index 7f4f9370d0e7..4dad756962d0 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
@@ -2387,14 +2387,27 @@ xlog_state_do_callback(
 
 
 				/*
-				 * update the last_sync_lsn before we drop the
+				 * Completion of a iclog IO does not imply that
+				 * a transaction has completed, as transactions
+				 * can be large enough to span many iclogs. We
+				 * cannot change the tail of the log half way
+				 * through a transaction as this may be the only
+				 * transaction in the log and moving th etail to
+				 * point to the middle of it will prevent
+				 * recovery from finding the start of the
+				 * transaction. Hence we should only update the
+				 * last_sync_lsn if this iclog contains
+				 * transaction completion callbacks on it.
+				 *
+				 * We have to do this before we drop the
 				 * icloglock to ensure we are the only one that
 				 * can update it.
 				 */
 				ASSERT(XFS_LSN_CMP(atomic64_read(&log->l_last_sync_lsn),
 					be64_to_cpu(iclog->ic_header.h_lsn)) <= 0);
-				atomic64_set(&log->l_last_sync_lsn,
-					be64_to_cpu(iclog->ic_header.h_lsn));
+				if (iclog->ic_callback)
+					atomic64_set(&log->l_last_sync_lsn,
+						be64_to_cpu(iclog->ic_header.h_lsn));
 
 			} else
 				ioerrors++;