ext4: fix freeze deadlock under IO
Commit 6b0310fbf087ad6 caused a regression resulting in deadlocks
when freezing a filesystem which had active IO; the vfs_check_frozen
level (SB_FREEZE_WRITE) did not let the freeze-related IO syncing
through. Duh.
Changing the test to FREEZE_TRANS should let the normal freeze
syncing get through the fs, but still block any transactions from
starting once the fs is completely frozen.
I tested this by running fsstress in the background while periodically
snapshotting the fs and running fsck on the result. I ran into
occasional deadlocks, but different ones. I think this is a
fine fix for the problem at hand, and the other deadlocky things
will need more investigation.
Reported-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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