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But if an error occurs while executing\njbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() (e.g., an EIO), we don't stop waiting for free\nspace right away, we try other branches, and if j_committing_transaction\nis NULL (i.e., the tid is 0), we will get the following complain:\n\n============================================\nJBD2: I/O error when updating journal superblock for sdd-8.\n__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: needed 256 blocks and only had 217 space available\n__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: no way to get more journal space in sdd-8\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 139804 at fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c:109 __jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 2 PID: 139804 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #1\nRIP: 0010:__jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n add_transaction_credits+0x5d1/0x5e0\n start_this_handle+0x1ef/0x6a0\n jbd2__journal_start+0x18b/0x340\n ext4_dirty_inode+0x5d/0xb0\n __mark_inode_dirty+0xe4/0x5d0\n 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But if an error occurs while executing\njbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() (e.g., an EIO), we don't stop waiting for free\nspace right away, we try other branches, and if j_committing_transaction\nis NULL (i.e., the tid is 0), we will get the following complain:\n\n============================================\nJBD2: I/O error when updating journal superblock for sdd-8.\n__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: needed 256 blocks and only had 217 space available\n__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: no way to get more journal space in sdd-8\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 139804 at fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c:109 __jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 2 PID: 139804 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #1\nRIP: 0010:__jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n add_transaction_credits+0x5d1/0x5e0\n start_this_handle+0x1ef/0x6a0\n jbd2__journal_start+0x18b/0x340\n ext4_dirty_inode+0x5d/0xb0\n __mark_inode_dirty+0xe4/0x5d0\n 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