[Tarantool-patches] [PATCH 1/1] limbo: don't wake self fiber on CONFIRM write

Alexander V. Tikhonov avtikhon at tarantool.org
Sat Sep 12 07:35:33 MSK 2020


Hi Vlad, thanks a lot for your patch. I've checked and it really helped
to fix the issue, patch LGTM.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:53:57PM +0200, Vladislav Shpilevoy wrote:
> During recovery WAL writes end immediately, without yields.
> Therefore WAL write completion callback is executed in the
> currently active fiber.
> 
> Txn limbo on CONFIRM WAL write wakes up the waiting fiber, which
> appears to be the same as the active fiber during recovery.
> 
> That breaks the fiber scheduler, because apparently it is not safe
> to wake the currently active fiber unless it is going to call
> fiber_yield() immediately after. See a comment in fiber_wakeup()
> implementation about that way of usage.
> 
> The patch simply stops waking the waiting fiber, if it is the
> currently active one.
> 
> Closes #5288
> Closes #5232
> ---
> Branch: http://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/tree/gerold103/gh-5288-limbo-wakeup
> Issue: https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues/5288
> Issue: https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues/5232
> 
>  src/box/txn_limbo.c                           |  3 ++-
>  .../replication/gh-5288-qsync-recovery.result | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../gh-5288-qsync-recovery.test.lua           | 11 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 test/replication/gh-5288-qsync-recovery.result
>  create mode 100644 test/replication/gh-5288-qsync-recovery.test.lua
> 
> diff --git a/src/box/txn_limbo.c b/src/box/txn_limbo.c
> index 2ff3bdd05..3655338d8 100644
> --- a/src/box/txn_limbo.c
> +++ b/src/box/txn_limbo.c
> @@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ static void
>  txn_limbo_write_cb(struct journal_entry *entry)
>  {
>  	assert(entry->complete_data != NULL);
> -	fiber_wakeup(entry->complete_data);
> +	if (fiber() != entry->complete_data)
> +		fiber_wakeup(entry->complete_data);
>  }
>  
>  static void
> diff --git a/test/replication/gh-5288-qsync-recovery.result b/test/replication/gh-5288-qsync-recovery.result
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..dc0babef6
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/test/replication/gh-5288-qsync-recovery.result
> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> +-- test-run result file version 2
> +test_run = require('test_run').new()
> + | ---
> + | ...
> +--
> +-- gh-5288: transaction limbo could crash during recovery, because in WAL write
> +-- completion callback it woken up the currently active fiber.
> +--
> +s = box.schema.space.create('sync', {is_sync = true})
> + | ---
> + | ...
> +_ = s:create_index('pk')
> + | ---
> + | ...
> +s:insert{1}
> + | ---
> + | - [1]
> + | ...
> +box.snapshot()
> + | ---
> + | - ok
> + | ...
> +test_run:cmd('restart server default')
> + | 
> +box.space.sync:drop()
> + | ---
> + | ...
> diff --git a/test/replication/gh-5288-qsync-recovery.test.lua b/test/replication/gh-5288-qsync-recovery.test.lua
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..00bff7b87
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/test/replication/gh-5288-qsync-recovery.test.lua
> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> +test_run = require('test_run').new()
> +--
> +-- gh-5288: transaction limbo could crash during recovery, because in WAL write
> +-- completion callback it woken up the currently active fiber.
> +--
> +s = box.schema.space.create('sync', {is_sync = true})
> +_ = s:create_index('pk')
> +s:insert{1}
> +box.snapshot()
> +test_run:cmd('restart server default')
> +box.space.sync:drop()
> -- 
> 2.21.1 (Apple Git-122.3)
> 


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