+ spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+
+ /*
+ * We need to make sure that any blocks that were recently written out
+ * --- perhaps by log_do_checkpoint() --- are flushed out before we
+ * drop the transactions from the journal. It's unlikely this will be
+ * necessary, especially with an appropriately sized journal, but we
+ * need this to guarantee correctness. Fortunately
+ * cleanup_journal_tail() doesn't get called all that often.
+ */
+ if (journal->j_flags & JFS_BARRIER)
+ blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);