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    gfs2: Allow some glocks to be used during withdraw · a72d2401
    Bob Peterson authored
    We need to allow some glocks to be enqueued, dequeued, promoted, and demoted
    when we're withdrawn. For example, to maintain metadata integrity, we should
    disallow the use of inode and rgrp glocks when withdrawn. Other glocks, like
    iopen or the transaction glocks may be safely used because none of their
    metadata goes through the journal. So in general, we should disallow all
    glocks with an address space, and allow all the others. One exception is:
    we need to allow our active journal to be demoted so others may recover it.
    
    Allowing glocks after withdraw gives us the ability to take appropriate
    action (in a following patch) to have our journal properly replayed by
    another node rather than just abandoning the current transactions and
    pretending nothing bad happened, leaving the other nodes free to modify
    the blocks we had in our journal, which may result in file system
    corruption.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
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