+
+ /*
+ * If there is an external journal, we need to make sure that
+ * any data blocks that were recently written out --- perhaps
+ * by jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() --- are flushed out before we
+ * drop the transactions from the external journal. It's
+ * unlikely this will be necessary, especially with a
+ * appropriately sized journal, but we need this to guarantee
+ * correctness. Fortunately jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()
+ * doesn't get called all that often.
+ */
+ if ((journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) &&
+ (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
+ blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, NULL);