Bug#54678: InnoDB, TRUNCATE, ALTER, I_S SELECT, crash or deadlock
- Incompatible change: truncate no longer resorts to a row by
row delete if the storage engine does not support the truncate
method. Consequently, the count of affected rows does not, in
any case, reflect the actual number of rows.
- Incompatible change: it is no longer possible to truncate a
table that participates as a parent in a foreign key constraint,
unless it is a self-referencing constraint (both parent and child
are in the same table). To work around this incompatible change
and still be able to truncate such tables, disable foreign checks
with SET foreign_key_checks=0 before truncate. Alternatively, if
foreign key checks are necessary, please use a DELETE statement
without a WHERE condition.
Problem description:
The problem was that for storage engines that do not support
truncate table via a external drop and recreate, such as InnoDB
which implements truncate via a internal drop and recreate, the
delete_all_rows method could be invoked with a shared metadata
lock, causing problems if the engine needed exclusive access
to some internal metadata. This problem originated with the
fact that there is no truncate specific handler method, which
ended up leading to a abuse of the delete_all_rows method that
is primarily used for delete operations without a condition.
Solution:
The solution is to introduce a truncate handler method that is
invoked when the engine does not support truncation via a table
drop and recreate. This method is invoked under a exclusive
metadata lock, so that there is only a single instance of the
table when the method is invoked.
Also, the method is not invoked and a error is thrown if
the table is a parent in a non-self-referencing foreign key
relationship. This was necessary to avoid inconsistency as
some integrity checks are bypassed. This is inline with the
fact that truncate is primarily a DDL operation that was
designed to quickly remove all data from a table.
ALTER TABLE on a MERGE table could cause a deadlock with two
other connections if we reached a situation where:
1) A connection doing ALTER TABLE can't upgrade to MDL_EXCLUSIVE on the
parent table, but holds TL_READ_NO_INSERT on the child tables.
2) A connection doing DELETE on a child table can't get TL_WRITE on it
since ALTER TABLE holds TL_READ_NO_INSERT.
3) A connection doing SELECT on the parent table can't get TL_READ on
the child tables since TL_WRITE is ahead in the lock queue, but holds
MDL_SHARED_READ on the parent table preventing ALTER TABLE from upgrading.
For regular tables, this deadlock is avoided by having ALTER TABLE
take a MDL_SHARED_NO_WRITE metadata lock on the table. This prevents
DELETE from acquiring MDL_SHARED_WRITE on the table before ALTER TABLE
tries to upgrade to MDL_EXCLUSIVE. In the example above, SELECT would
therefore not be blocked by the pending DELETE as DELETE would not be
able to enter TL_WRITE in the table lock queue.
This patch fixes the problem for merge tables by using the same metadata
lock type for child tables as for the parent table. The child tables will
in this case therefore be locked with MDL_SHARED_NO_WRITE, preventing
DELETE from acquiring a metadata lock and enter into the table lock queue.
Change in behavior: By taking the same metadata lock for child tables
as for the parent table, LOCK TABLE on the parent table will now also
implicitly lock the child tables. Since LOCK TABLE on the parent table
now takes more than one metadata lock, it is possible for LOCK TABLE
... WRITE on the parent table or child tables to give ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK
error.
Test case added to mdl_sync.test.
Merge.test/.result has been updated to reflect the change to LOCK TABLE.
TABLES <list> WITH READ LOCK are incompatible".
The problem was that FLUSH TABLES <list> WITH READ LOCK
which was issued when other connection has acquired global
read lock using FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK was blocked
and has to wait until global read lock is released.
This issue stemmed from the fact that FLUSH TABLES <list>
WITH READ LOCK implementation has acquired X metadata locks
on tables to be flushed. Since these locks required acquiring
of global IX lock this statement was incompatible with global
read lock.
This patch addresses problem by using SNW metadata type of
lock for tables to be flushed by FLUSH TABLES <list> WITH
READ LOCK. It is OK to acquire them without global IX lock
as long as we won't try to upgrade those locks. Since SNW
locks allow concurrent statements using same table FLUSH
TABLE <list> WITH READ LOCK now has to wait until old
versions of tables to be flushed go away after acquiring
metadata locks. Since such waiting can lead to deadlock
MDL deadlock detector was extended to take into account
waits for flush and resolve such deadlocks.
As a bonus code in open_tables() which was responsible for
waiting old versions of tables to go away was refactored.
Now when we encounter old version of table in open_table()
we don't back-off and wait for all old version to go away,
but instead wait for this particular table to be flushed.
Such approach supported by deadlock detection should reduce
number of scenarios in which FLUSH TABLES aborts concurrent
multi-statement transactions.
Note that active FLUSH TABLES <list> WITH READ LOCK still
blocks concurrent FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK statement
as the former keeps tables open and thus prevents the
latter statement from doing flush.
with open HANDLER
Fixes problem which caused mdl_sync.test to fail on Solaris and
Windows due to path name differences in error messages in the
result file.
DATABASE with open HANDLER"
Remove LOCK_create_db, database name locks, and use metadata locks instead.
This exposes CREATE/DROP/ALTER DATABASE statements to the graph-based
deadlock detector in MDL, and paves the way for a safe, deadlock-free
implementation of RENAME DATABASE.
Database DDL statements will now take exclusive metadata locks on
the database name, while table/view/routine DDL statements take
intention exclusive locks on the database name. This prevents race
conditions between database DDL and table/view/routine DDL.
(e.g. DROP DATABASE with concurrent CREATE/ALTER/DROP TABLE)
By adding database name locks, this patch implements
WL#4450 "DDL locking: CREATE/DROP DATABASE must use database locks" and
WL#4985 "DDL locking: namespace/hierarchical locks".
The patch also changes code to use init_one_table() where appropriate.
The new lock_table_names() function requires TABLE_LIST::db_length to
be set correctly, and this is taken care of by init_one_table().
This patch also adds a simple template to help work with
the mysys HASH data structure.
Most of the patch was written by Konstantin Osipov.
locks for DML statements and changes the way MDL locks
are acquired/granted in contended case.
Instead of backing-off when a lock conflict is encountered
and waiting for it to go away before restarting open_tables()
process we now wait for lock to be released without releasing
any previously acquired locks. If conflicting lock goes away
we resume opening tables. If waiting leads to a deadlock we
try to resolve it by backing-off and restarting open_tables()
immediately.
As result both waiting for possibility to acquire and
acquiring of a metadata lock now always happen within the
same MDL API call. This has allowed to make release of a lock
and granting it to the most appropriate pending request an
atomic operation.
Thanks to this it became possible to wake up during release
of lock only those waiters which requests can be satisfied
at the moment as well as wake up only one waiter in case
when granting its request would prevent all other requests
from being satisfied. This solves thundering herd problem
which occured in cases when we were releasing some lock and
woke up many waiters for SNRW or X locks (this was the issue
in bug#52289 "performance regression for MyISAM in sysbench
OLTP_RW test".
This also allowed to implement more fair (FIFO) scheduling
among waiters with the same priority.
It also opens the door for introducing new types of requests
for metadata locks such as low-prio SNRW lock which is
necessary in order to support LOCK TABLES LOW_PRIORITY WRITE.
Notice that after this sometimes can report ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK
error in cases in which it has not happened before.
Particularly we will always report this error if waiting for
conflicting lock has happened in the middle of transaction
and resulted in a deadlock. Before this patch the error was
not reported if deadlock could have been resolved by backing
off all metadata locks acquired by the current statement.
Conflicts:
Text conflict in mysql-test/r/archive.result
Contents conflict in mysql-test/r/innodb_bug38231.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/r/mdl_sync.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/binlog/t/disabled.def
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/rpl_ndb/r/rpl_ndb_binlog_format_errors.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/t/archive.test
Contents conflict in mysql-test/t/innodb_bug38231.test
Text conflict in mysql-test/t/mdl_sync.test
Text conflict in sql/sp_head.cc
Text conflict in sql/sql_show.cc
Text conflict in sql/table.cc
Text conflict in sql/table.h
We should avoid any SHARE fields assignments as
this is shared structure and assignments may
affect other therads. To avoid this
copy of SHARE struct is created and
stored into TABLE struct which is
used in get_schema_coulumns_record later.
The problem was that mdl_sync.test was failing sporadically,
due to fact that part of the test didn't take into account
effects of MyISAM's concurrent insert.
This patch solves the problem by making test case robust
against concurrent insert.
The problem was that TRUNCATE TABLE didn't take a exclusive
lock on a table if it resorted to truncating via delete of
all rows in the table. Specifically for InnoDB tables, this
could break proper isolation as InnoDB ends up aborting some
granted locks when truncating a table.
The solution is to take a exclusive metadata lock before
TRUNCATE TABLE can proceed. This guarantees that no other
transaction is using the table.
Incompatible change: Truncate via delete no longer fails
if sql_safe_updates is activated (this was a undocumented
side effect).
The task is to
(a) add a comment on indexes and
(b) increase the maximum length of column, table and the new index comments.
The patch committed on behalf of Yoshinori Matsunobu (Yoshinori.Matsunobu@Sun.COM).
rqg_mdl_stability".
When start of statement's waiting on a metadata lock
created more than one loop in waiters graph server might
have entered deadlock condition.
The problem was that in the case described above MDL deadlock
detector had to perform several searches for deadlock but
forgot to reset Deadlock_detection_context before performing
new search.
Failure to do so has broken assumption in code resposible for
choosing victim that if Deadlock_detection_context::victim
is set we also have read lock on m_waiting_for_lock for this
context. As result this lock could have been unlocked more
times than it was acquired which corrupted rwlock's state
which led to server deadlock.
This fix ensures that such reset is done before each attempt
to find a deadlock.
and MDL".
Concurrent execution of a multi-DELETE statement and ALTER
TABLE statement which affected one of the tables used in
the multi-DELETE sometimes led to deadlock.
Similar deadlocks might have occured when one performed
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE on a view and concurrently executed
ALTER TABLE for the view's underlying table, or when one
concurrently executed TRUNCATE TABLE for InnoDB table and
ALTER TABLE for the same table.
These deadlocks were caused by a discrepancy between types of
metadata and thr_lock.cc locks acquired by those statements.
What happened was that multi-DELETE/TRUNCATE/DML-through-the-
view statement in the first connection acquired SR lock on a
table, then ALTER TABLE would come in in the second connection
and acquire SNW metadata lock and TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ
thr_lock.c lock and then would start waiting for the first
connection during lock upgrade. After that the statement in
the first connection would try to acquire TL_WRITE lock on
table and would start waiting for the second connection,
creating a deadlock.
This patch solves this problem by ensuring that we acquire
SW metadata lock in all cases in which we acquiring write
thr_lock.c lock. This guarantees that deadlocks like the
one described above won't occur since all lock conflicts
in such situation are resolved within MDL subsystem.
This patch also adds assert which should guarantee that
such situations won't arise in future.
Change the error code for ER_WARN_I_S_SKIPPED_TABLE, to not
upset the tests that rely on ER_SLAVE_CONVERSION_ERROR error
code = 1667.
Fix a merge bug with binlogging of CREATE TABLE (temporary tables).
failed in open_ltable()
The problem was too restrictive asserts that enforced that
open_ltable() was called without any active HANDLERs, LOCK TABLES
or global read locks.
However, this can happen in several cases when opening system
tables. The assert would, for example, be triggered when drop
function was called from a connection with active HANDLERs as
this would cause open_ltable() to be called for mysql.proc.
The assert could also be triggered when using table-based
general log (mysql.general_log).
This patch removes the asserts since they will be triggered in
several legitimate cases and because the asserts are no longer
relevant due to changes in how locks are released.
The patch also fixes set_needs_thr_lock_abort() that before
ignored its parameter and always set the member variable to TRUE.
Test case added to mdl_sync.test.
Thanks to Dmitry Lenev for help with this bug!
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.
condition variable per context instead of one mutex and one conditional
variable for the whole subsystem.
This should increase concurrency in this subsystem.
It also opens the way for further changes which are necessary to solve
such bugs as bug #46272 "MySQL 5.4.4, new MDL: unnecessary deadlock"
and bug #37346 "innodb does not detect deadlock between update and alter
table".
Two other notable changes done by this patch:
- MDL subsystem no longer implicitly acquires global intention exclusive
metadata lock when per-object metadata lock is acquired. Now this has
to be done by explicit calls outside of MDL subsystem.
- Instead of using separate MDL_context for opening system tables/tables
for purposes of I_S we now create MDL savepoint in the main context
before opening tables and rollback to this savepoint after closing
them. This means that it is now possible to get ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error
even not inside a transaction. This might happen in unlikely case when
one runs DDL on one of system tables while also running DDL on some
other tables. Cases when this ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error is not justified
will be addressed by advanced deadlock detector for MDL subsystem which
we plan to implement.
This change is supposed to reduce number of ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK
errors which occur when multi-statement transaction encounters
conflicting metadata lock in cases when waiting is possible.
The idea is not to fail ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error immediately when
we encounter conflicting metadata lock. Instead we release all
metadata locks acquired by current statement and start to wait
until conflicting lock go away. To avoid deadlocks we use simple
empiric which aborts waiting with ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error if it
turns out that somebody is waiting for metadata locks owned by
this transaction.
This patch also fixes bug #46273 "MySQL 5.4.4 new MDL: Bug#989
is not fully fixed in case of ALTER".
The bug was that concurrent execution of UPDATE or MULTI-UPDATE
statement as a part of multi-statement transaction that already
has used table being updated and ALTER TABLE statement might have
resulted of loss of isolation between this transaction and ALTER
TABLE statement, which manifested itself as changes performed by
ALTER TABLE becoming visible in transaction and wrong binary log
order as a consequence.
This problem occurred when UPDATE or MULTI-UPDATE's wait in
mysql_lock_tables() call was aborted due to metadata lock
upgrade performed by concurrent ALTER TABLE. After such abort all
metadata locks held by transaction were released but transaction
silently continued to be executed as if nothing has happened.
We solve this problem by changing our code not to release all
locks in such case. Instead we release only locks which were
acquired by current statement and then try to reacquire them
by restarting open/lock tables process. We piggyback on simple
deadlock detector implementation since this change has to be
done anyway for it.
Postfix for Bug#48210 FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK deadlocks
against concurrent CREATE PROCEDURE
Rewrote the second test to use DROP PROCEDURE instead of
CREATE USER as CREATE USER does not work with embedded server.
Bug #48210 FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK deadlocks
against concurrent CREATE PROCEDURE
This deadlock occured between
a) CREATE PROCEDURE (or other commands listed below)
b) FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK
If the execution of them happened in the following order:
- a) opens a table (e.g. mysql.proc)
- b) locks the global read lock (or GRL)
- a) sleeps inside wait_if_global_read_lock()
- b) increases refresh_version and sleeps waiting
for old tables to go away
Note that a) must start waiting on the GRL before FLUSH increases
refresh_version. Otherwise a) won't wait on the GRL and instead
close its tables for reopen, allowing FLUSH to complete and thus
avoid the deadlock.
With this patch the deadlock is avoided by making CREATE PROCEDURE
acquire a protection against global read locks before it starts
executing. This means that FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK will have
to wait until CREATE PROCEDURE completes before acquiring the global
read lock, thereby avoiding the deadlock.
This is implemented by introducing a new SQL command flag called
CF_PROTECT_AGAINST_GRL. Commands marked with this flag will
acquire a GRL protection in the beginning of mysql_execute_command().
This patch adds the flag to CREATE, ALTER and DROP for PROCEDURE
and FUNCTION, as well as CREATE USER, DROP USER, RENAME USER and
REVOKE ALL. All these commands either call open_grant_tables() or
open_system_table_for_updated() which make them susceptible for
this deadlock.
The patch also adds the CF_PROTECT_AGAINST_GRL flag to a number
of commands that previously acquired GRL protection in their
respective SQLCOM case in mysql_execute_command().
Test case that checks for GRL protection for CREATE PROCEDURE
and CREATE USER added to mdl_sync.test.
Bug#42546 Backup: RESTORE fails, thinking it finds an existing table
The problem occured when a MDL locking conflict happened for a non-existent
table between a CREATE and a INSERT statement. The code for CREATE
interpreted this lock conflict to mean that the table existed,
which meant that the statement failed when it should not have.
The problem could occur for CREATE TABLE, CREATE TABLE LIKE and
ALTER TABLE RENAME.
This patch fixes the problem for CREATE TABLE and CREATE TABLE LIKE.
It is based on code backported from the mysql-6.1-fk tree written
by Dmitry Lenev. CREATE now uses normal open_and_lock_tables() code
to acquire exclusive locks. This means that for the test case in the bug
description, CREATE will wait until INSERT completes so that it can
get the exclusive lock. This resolves the reported bug.
The patch also prohibits CREATE TABLE and CREATE TABLE LIKE under
LOCK TABLES. Note that this is an incompatible change and must
be reflected in the documentation. Affected test cases have been
updated.
mdl_sync.test contains tests for CREATE TABLE and CREATE TABLE LIKE.
Fixing the issue for ALTER TABLE RENAME is beyond the scope of this
patch. ALTER TABLE cannot be prohibited from working under LOCK TABLES
as this could seriously impact customers and a proper fix would require
a significant rewrite.
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revno: 2617.68.10
committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
branch nick: mysql-next-bg46673
timestamp: Tue 2009-09-01 19:57:05 +0400
message:
Fix for bug #46673 "Deadlock between FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK and DML".
Deadlocks occured when one concurrently executed transactions with
several statements modifying data and FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK
statement or SET READ_ONLY=1 statement.
These deadlocks were introduced by the patch for WL 4284: "Transactional
DDL locking"/Bug 989: "If DROP TABLE while there's an active transaction,
wrong binlog order" which has changed FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK/SET
READ_ONLY=1 to wait for pending transactions.
What happened was that FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK blocked all further
statements changing tables by setting global_read_lock global variable
and has started waiting for all pending transactions to complete.
Then one of those transactions tried to executed DML, detected that
global_read_lock non-zero and tried to wait until global read lock will
be released (i.e. global_read_lock becomes 0), indeed, this led to a
deadlock.
Proper solution for this problem should probably involve full integration
of global read lock with metadata locking subsystem (which will allow to
implement waiting for pending transactions without blocking DML in them).
But since it requires significant changes another, short-term solution
for the problem is implemented in this patch.
Basically, this patch restores behavior of FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK/
SET READ_ONLY=1 before the patch for WL 4284/bug 989. By ensuring that
extra references to TABLE_SHARE are not stored for active metadata locks
it changes these statements not to wait for pending transactions.
As result deadlock is eliminated.
Note that this does not change the fact that active FLUSH TABLES WITH
READ LOCK lock or SET READ_ONLY=1 prevent modifications to tables as
they also block transaction commits.
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revno: 2617.68.7
committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
branch nick: mysql-next-bg46044
timestamp: Thu 2009-08-27 10:22:17 +0400
message:
Fix for bug #46044 "MDL deadlock on LOCK TABLE + CREATE TABLE HIGH_PRIORITY
FOR UPDATE".
Deadlock occured when during execution of query to I_S we tried to open
a table or its .FRM in order to get information about it and had to wait
because we have encountered exclusive metadata lock on this table held by
a DDL operation from another connection which in its turn waited for some
resource currently owned by connection executing this I_S query.
For example, this might have happened if one under LOCK TABLES executed I_S
query targeted to particular table (which was not among locked) and also
concurrently tried to create this table using CREATE TABLE SELECT which
had to wait for one of tables locked by the first connection.
Another situation in which deadlock might have occured is when I_S query,
which was executed as part of transaction, tried to get information about
table which just has been dropped by concurrent DROP TABLES executed under
LOCK TABLES and this DROP TABLES for its completion also had to wait
transaction from the first connection.
This problem stemmed from the fact that opening of tables/.FRMs for I_S
filling is happening outside of connection's main MDL_context so code
which tries to detect deadlocks due to conflicting metadata locks doesn't
work in this case. Indeed, this led to deadlocks when during I_S filling
we tried to wait for conflicting metadata lock to go away, while its owner
was waiting for some resource held by connection executing I_S query.
This patch solves this problem by avoiding waiting in such situation.
Instead we skip this table and produce warning that information about
it was omitted from I_S due to concurrent DDL operation. We still wait
for conflicting metadata lock to go away when it is known that deadlock
is not possible (i.e. when connection executing I_S query does not hold
any metadata or table-level locks).
Basically, we apply our standard deadlock avoidance technique for metadata
locks to the process of filling of I_S tables but replace ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK
error with a warning.
Note that this change is supposed to be safe for 'mysqldump' since the
only its mode which is affected by this change is --single-transaction mode
is not safe in the presence of concurrent DDL anyway (and this fact is
documented). Other modes are unaffected because they either use
SHOW TABLES/SELECT * FROM I_S.TABLE_NAMES which do not take any metadata
locks in the process of I_S table filling and thus cannot skip tables or
execute I_S queries for tables which were previously locked by LOCK TABLES
(or in the presence of global read lock) which excludes possibility of
encountering conflicting metadata lock.
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revno: 2617.69.37
committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
branch nick: mysql-next-bg46748
timestamp: Fri 2009-08-21 18:17:02 +0400
message:
Fix for bug #46748 "Assertion in MDL_context::wait_for_locks()
on INSERT + CREATE TRIGGER".
Concurrent execution of statements involving stored functions or triggers
which were using several tables and DDL statements which affected those
tables on debug build of server might have led to assertion failures in
MDL_context::wait_for_locks(). Non-debug build was not affected.
The problem was that during back-off which happens when open_tables()
encounters conflicting metadata lock for one of the tables being open
we didn't reset MDL_request::ticket value for requests which correspond
to tables from extended prelocking set. Since these requests are part
of of list of requests to be waited for in Open_table_context this broke
assumption that ticket value for them is 0 in MDL_context::wait_for_locks()
and caused assertion failure.
This fix ensures that close_tables_for_reopen(), which performs this back-off
resets MDL_request::ticket value not only for tables directly used by the
statement but also for tables from extended prelocking set, thus satisfying
assumption described above.
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revno: 2617.23.18
committer: Davi Arnaut <Davi.Arnaut@Sun.COM>
branch nick: 4284-6.0
timestamp: Mon 2009-03-02 18:18:26 -0300
message:
Bug#989: If DROP TABLE while there's an active transaction, wrong binlog order
WL#4284: Transactional DDL locking
This is a prerequisite patch:
These changes are intended to split lock requests from granted
locks and to allow the memory and lifetime of granted locks to
be managed within the MDL subsystem. Furthermore, tickets can
now be shared and therefore are used to satisfy multiple lock
requests, but only shared locks can be recursive.
The problem is that the MDL subsystem morphs lock requests into
granted locks locks but does not manage the memory and lifetime
of lock requests, and hence, does not manage the memory of
granted locks either. This can be problematic because it puts the
burden of tracking references on the users of the subsystem and
it can't be easily done in transactional contexts where the locks
have to be kept around for the duration of a transaction.
Another issue is that recursive locks (when the context trying to
acquire a lock already holds a lock on the same object) requires
that each time the lock is granted, a unique lock request/granted
lock structure structure must be kept around until the lock is
released. This can lead to memory leaks in transactional contexts
as locks taken during the transaction should only be released at
the end of the transaction. This also leads to unnecessary wake
ups (broadcasts) in the MDL subsystem if the context still holds
a equivalent of the lock being released.
These issues are exacerbated due to the fact that WL#4284 low-level
design says that the implementation should "2) Store metadata locks
in transaction memory root, rather than statement memory root" but
this is not possible because a memory root, as implemented in mysys,
requires all objects allocated from it to be freed all at once.
This patch combines review input and significant code contributions
from Konstantin Osipov (kostja) and Dmitri Lenev (dlenev).
