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journal: properly check for held lock (issue5349)

The 'jlock' code meant to check for a held lock, but it actually just checking for a
lock object. With CPython, this worked because the 'jlock' object is not
referenced outside the '_write' function so reference counting would garbage
collect it and the '_lockref' would return None. With pypy, the garbage
collection would happen at an undefined time and the '_lockref' can still point
to a 'jlock' object outside of '_write'.

The right thing to do here is not only to check for a lock object but also to
check if the lock is held. We update the code to do so and reuse a utility
method that exist on 'localrepo' to help readability. This fix journal related
tests with pypy.

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