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Dmitry Lenev
afd15c43a9 Implement new type-of-operation-aware metadata locks.
Add a wait-for graph based deadlock detector to the
MDL subsystem.

Fixes bug #46272 "MySQL 5.4.4, new MDL: unnecessary deadlock" and
bug #37346 "innodb does not detect deadlock between update and
alter table".

The first bug manifested itself as an unwarranted abort of a
transaction with ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error by a concurrent ALTER
statement, when this transaction tried to repeat use of a
table, which it has already used in a similar fashion before
ALTER started.

The second bug showed up as a deadlock between table-level
locks and InnoDB row locks, which was "detected" only after
innodb_lock_wait_timeout timeout.

A transaction would start using the table and modify a few
rows.
Then ALTER TABLE would come in, and start copying rows
into a temporary table. Eventually it would stumble on
the modified records and get blocked on a row lock.
The first transaction would try to do more updates, and get
blocked on thr_lock.c lock.
This situation of circular wait would only get resolved
by a timeout.

Both these bugs stemmed from inadequate solutions to the
problem of deadlocks occurring between different
locking subsystems.

In the first case we tried to avoid deadlocks between metadata
locking and table-level locking subsystems, when upgrading shared
metadata lock to exclusive one.
Transactions holding the shared lock on the table and waiting for
some table-level lock used to be aborted too aggressively.

We also allowed ALTER TABLE to start in presence of transactions
that modify the subject table. ALTER TABLE acquires
TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ lock at start, and that block all writes
against the table (naturally, we don't want any writes to be lost
when switching the old and the new table). TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ
lock, in turn, would block the started transaction on thr_lock.c
lock, should they do more updates. This, again, lead to the need
to abort such transactions.

The second bug occurred simply because we didn't have any
mechanism to detect deadlocks between the table-level locks
in thr_lock.c and row-level locks in InnoDB, other than
innodb_lock_wait_timeout.

This patch solves both these problems by moving lock conflicts
which are causing these deadlocks into the metadata locking
subsystem, thus making it possible to avoid or detect such
deadlocks inside MDL.

To do this we introduce new type-of-operation-aware metadata
locks, which allow MDL subsystem to know not only the fact that
transaction has used or is going to use some object but also what
kind of operation it has carried out or going to carry out on the
object.

This, along with the addition of a special kind of upgradable
metadata lock, allows ALTER TABLE to wait until all
transactions which has updated the table to go away.
This solves the second issue.
Another special type of upgradable metadata lock is acquired
by LOCK TABLE WRITE. This second lock type allows to solve the
first issue, since abortion of table-level locks in event of
DDL under LOCK TABLES becomes also unnecessary.

Below follows the list of incompatible changes introduced by
this patch:

- From now on, ALTER TABLE and CREATE/DROP TRIGGER SQL (i.e. those
  statements that acquire TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ lock)
  wait for all transactions which has *updated* the table to
  complete.

- From now on, LOCK TABLES ... WRITE, REPAIR/OPTIMIZE TABLE
  (i.e. all statements which acquire TL_WRITE table-level lock) wait
  for all transaction which *updated or read* from the table
  to complete.
  As a consequence, innodb_table_locks=0 option no longer applies
  to LOCK TABLES ... WRITE.

- DROP DATABASE, DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE no longer abort
  statements or transactions which use tables being dropped or
  renamed, and instead wait for these transactions to complete.

- Since LOCK TABLES WRITE now takes a special metadata lock,
  not compatible with with reads or writes against the subject table
  and transaction-wide, thr_lock.c deadlock avoidance algorithm
  that used to ensure absence of deadlocks between LOCK TABLES
  WRITE and other statements is no longer sufficient, even for
  MyISAM. The wait-for graph based deadlock detector of MDL
  subsystem may sometimes be necessary and is involved. This may
  lead to ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error produced for multi-statement
  transactions even if these only use MyISAM:

  session 1:         session 2:
  begin;

  update t1 ...      lock table t2 write, t1 write;
                     -- gets a lock on t2, blocks on t1

  update t2 ...
  (ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK)

- Finally,  support of LOW_PRIORITY option for LOCK TABLES ... WRITE
  was abandoned.
  LOCK TABLE ... LOW_PRIORITY WRITE from now on has the same
  priority as the usual LOCK TABLE ... WRITE.
  SELECT HIGH PRIORITY no longer trumps LOCK TABLE ... WRITE  in
  the wait queue.

- We do not take upgradable metadata locks on implicitly
  locked tables. So if one has, say, a view v1 that uses
  table t1, and issues:
  LOCK TABLE v1 WRITE;
  FLUSH TABLE t1; -- (or just 'FLUSH TABLES'),
  an error is produced.
  In order to be able to perform DDL on a table under LOCK TABLES,
  the table must be locked explicitly in the LOCK TABLES list.
2010-02-01 14:43:06 +03:00
Konstantin Osipov
c44665aeb1 Backport of:
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revno: 3035.4.1
committer: Davi Arnaut <Davi.Arnaut@Sun.COM>
branch nick: 39897-6.0
timestamp: Thu 2009-01-15 12:17:57 -0200
message:
Bug#39897: lock_multi fails in pushbuild: timeout waiting for processlist

The problem is that relying on the "Table lock" thread state in
its current position to detect that a thread is waiting on a lock
is race prone. The "Table lock" state change happens before the
thread actually tries to grab a lock on a table.

The solution is to move the "Table lock" state so that its set
only when a thread is actually going to wait for a lock. The state
change happens after the thread fails to grab the lock (because it
is owned by other thread) and proceeds to wait on a condition.

This is considered part of work related to WL#4284 "Transactional
DDL locking"
Warning: this patch contains an incompatible change. 
When waiting on a lock in thr_lock.c, the server used to display "Locked"
processlist state. After this patch, the state is "Table lock".
The new state was actually intended to be display since year 2002,
when Monty added it. But up until removal of thd->locked boolean
member, this state was ignored by SHOW PROCESSLIST code.
2009-12-03 23:08:27 +03:00
msvensson@neptunus.(none)
f39ff057d1 Update tests and result files after running with new mysqltest that better detects problems with test files 2006-10-04 13:09:37 +02:00
sergefp@mysql.com
fbab5fc568 BUG#12228: Post review fixes: Added test case, code cleanup. 2005-08-10 21:17:02 +00:00
sergefp@mysql.com
de02193bdd Added Non-prelocked SP execution: Now a PROCEDURE doesn't enter/leave prelocked mode for
its body, but lets each statement to get/release its own locks. This allows a broader set
of statements to be executed inside PROCEDUREs (but breaks replication)
This patch should fix BUG#8072, BUG#8766, BUG#9563, BUG#11126
2005-07-30 08:19:57 +00:00
dlenev@mysql.com
f334ea1fc6 Implementation of Monty's idea: Now we can open mysql.proc table for lookup
of stored routines definitions even if we already have some tables open and
locked. To avoid deadlocks in this case we have to put certain restrictions
on locking of mysql.proc table.

This allows to use stored routines safely under LOCK TABLES without explicitly
mentioning mysql.proc in the list of locked tables. It also fixes bug #11554
"Server crashes on statement indirectly using non-cached function".
2005-07-13 13:48:13 +04:00
dlenev@brandersnatch.localdomain
5394a1a4bd Fix for bug #11158 "Can't perform multi-delete in stored procedure".
In order to make multi-delete SP friendly we need to have all table 
locks for the elements of main statement table list properly set 
at the end of parsing.

Also performed small cleanup: We don't need relink_tables_for_multidelete()
any longer since the only case now when TABLE_LIST::correspondent_table
is non-zero are tables in auxilary table list of multi-delete and these
tables are handled specially in mysql_multi_delete_prepare().
2005-06-09 01:07:52 +04:00
dlenev@brandersnatch.localdomain
6b0b4734d9 Fix for bug #9486 "Can't perform multi-update in stored procedure".
New more SP-locking friendly approach to handling locks in multi-update.
Now we mark all tables of multi-update as needing write lock at parsing
stage and if possible downgrade lock at execution stage (For its work
SP-locking mechanism needs to know all lock types right after parsing
stage).
2005-04-15 20:31:47 +04:00
pem@mysql.comhem.se
7e1b622639 Fixed BUG#4934: Caching issue with stored procedures.
...and added new test file, sp-threads, for multiple connection tests
  (apart from the security tests that are in sp-security).
2004-08-06 18:11:14 +02:00