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diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
index 841d7883528..f948ec7ba9a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
@@ -66,6 +66,25 @@ typedef enum {
_XBF_PAGES = (1 << 18), /* backed by refcounted pages */
_XBF_RUN_QUEUES = (1 << 19),/* run block device task queue */
_XBF_DELWRI_Q = (1 << 21), /* buffer on delwri queue */
+
+ /*
+ * Special flag for supporting metadata blocks smaller than a FSB.
+ *
+ * In this case we can have multiple xfs_buf_t on a single page and
+ * need to lock out concurrent xfs_buf_t readers as they only
+ * serialise access to the buffer.
+ *
+ * If the FSB size >= PAGE_CACHE_SIZE case, we have no serialisation
+ * between reads of the page. Hence we can have one thread read the
+ * page and modify it, but then race with another thread that thinks
+ * the page is not up-to-date and hence reads it again.
+ *
+ * The result is that the first modifcation to the page is lost.
+ * This sort of AGF/AGI reading race can happen when unlinking inodes
+ * that require truncation and results in the AGI unlinked list
+ * modifications being lost.
+ */
+ _XBF_PAGE_LOCKED = (1 << 22),
} xfs_buf_flags_t;
typedef enum {