Quoting from the bug report:
The pstack library has been included in MySQL since version
4.0.0. It's useless and should be removed.
Details: According to its own documentation, pstack only works
on Linux on x86 in 32 bit mode and requires LinuxThreads and a
statically linked binary. It doesn't really support any Linux
from 2003 or later and doesn't work on any other OS.
detector" that doesn't introduce bug #56715 "Concurrent
transactions + FLUSH result in sporadical unwarranted
deadlock errors".
Deadlock could have occurred when workload containing a mix
of DML, DDL and FLUSH TABLES statements affecting the same
set of tables was executed in a heavily concurrent environment.
This deadlock occurred when several connections tried to
perform deadlock detection in the metadata locking subsystem.
The first connection started traversing wait-for graph,
encountered a sub-graph representing a wait for flush, acquired
LOCK_open and dived into sub-graph inspection. Then it
encountered sub-graph corresponding to wait for metadata lock
and blocked while trying to acquire a rd-lock on
MDL_lock::m_rwlock, since some,other thread had a wr-lock on it.
When this wr-lock was released it could have happened (if there
was another pending wr-lock against this rwlock) that the rd-lock
from the first connection was left unsatisfied but at the same
time the new rd-lock request from the second connection sneaked
in and was satisfied (for this to be possible the second
rd-request should come exactly after the wr-lock is released but
before pending the wr-lock manages to grab rwlock, which is
possible both on Linux and in our own rwlock implementation).
If this second connection continued traversing the wait-for graph
and encountered a sub-graph representing a wait for flush it tried
to acquire LOCK_open and thus the deadlock was created.
The previous patch tried to workaround this problem by not
allowing the deadlock detector to lock LOCK_open mutex if
some other thread doing deadlock detection already owns it
and current search depth is greater than 0. Instead deadlock
was reported. As a result it has introduced bug #56715.
This patch solves this problem in a different way.
It introduces a new rw_pr_lock_t implementation to be used
by MDL subsystem instead of one based on Linux rwlocks or
our own rwlock implementation. This new implementation
never allows situation in which an rwlock is rd-locked and
there is a blocked pending rd-lock. Thus the situation which
has caused this bug becomes impossible with this implementation.
Due to fact that this implementation is optimized for
wr-lock/unlock scenario which is most common in the MDL
subsystem it doesn't introduce noticeable performance
regressions in sysbench tests. Moreover it significantly
improves situation for POINT_SELECT test when many
connections are used.
No test case is provided as this bug is very hard to repeat
in MTR environment but is repeatable with the help of RQG
tests.
This patch also doesn't include a test for bug #56715
"Concurrent transactions + FLUSH result in sporadical
unwarranted deadlock errors" as it takes too much time to
be run as part of normal test-suite runs.
Added InnoDB to the 'default' plugin group, and modified
the autoconf script so the 'default' group is actually
built by default.
(i.e ./configure.am == ./configure.am --with-plugins=default ,
instead of being ./configure.am --with-plugins=none )
Problem: The functions my_like_range_xxx() returned
badly formed maximum strings for Asian character sets,
which made problems for storage engines.
Fix:
- Removed a number my_like_range_xxx() implementations,
which were in fact dumplicate code pieces.
- Using generic my_like_range_mb() instead.
- Setting max_sort_char member properly for Asian character sets
- Adding unittest/strings/strings-t.c,
to test that my_like_range_xxx() return well-formed
min and max strings.
Notes:
- No additional tests in mysql/t/ available.
Old tests cover the affected code well enough.
Fix some issues with WiX packaging, particularly
major upgrade and change scenarios.
* remember binary location and data location
(for major upgrade)
* use custom UI, which is WiX Mondo extended
for major upgrade dialog (no feature selection
screen shown on major upgrade, only upgrade
confirmation). This is necessary to prevent
changing installation path during upgrade
(services are not reregistered, so they would
have invalid binary path is it is changed)
* Hide datafiles that are installed into
ProgramFiles, show ones that are installed
in ProgramData
* Make MSI buildable with nmake
* Fix autotools "make dist"
Remove wrappers around inline -- static inline is used without
wrappers throughout the source code. We rely on the compiler or
linker to eliminate unused static functions.
Although the C standard mandates that sprintf return the number
of bytes written, some very ancient systems (i.e. SunOS 4)
returned a pointer to the buffer instead. Since these systems
are not supported anymore and are hopefully long dead by now,
simply remove the portability wrapper that dealt with this
discrepancy. The autoconf check was causing trouble with GCC.
Introduce a MySQL maintainer/developer mode that enables
a set of warning options for the C/C++ compiler. This mode
is intended to help improve the overall quality of the code.
The warning options are:
C_WARNINGS="-Wall -Wextra -Wunused -Wwrite-strings -Werror"
CXX_WARNINGS="$C_WARNINGS -Wno-unused-parameter"
Since -Wall is essentially a moving target, autoconf checks
are not run with warning options enabled, in particualr -Werror.
This decision might be revisited in the future. The patch also
fixes a mistake in the makefiles, where automake CXXFLAGS would
be set to CFLAGS.
Essentially, the problem is that safemalloc is excruciatingly
slow as it checks all allocated blocks for overrun at each
memory management primitive, yielding a almost exponential
slowdown for the memory management functions (malloc, realloc,
free). The overrun check basically consists of verifying some
bytes of a block for certain magic keys, which catches some
simple forms of overrun. Another minor problem is violation
of aliasing rules and that its own internal list of blocks
is prone to corruption.
Another issue with safemalloc is rather the maintenance cost
as the tool has a significant impact on the server code.
Given the magnitude of memory debuggers available nowadays,
especially those that are provided with the platform malloc
implementation, maintenance of a in-house and largely obsolete
memory debugger becomes a burden that is not worth the effort
due to its slowness and lack of support for detecting more
common forms of heap corruption.
Since there are third-party tools that can provide the same
functionality at a lower or comparable performance cost, the
solution is to simply remove safemalloc. Third-party tools
can provide the same functionality at a lower or comparable
performance cost.
The removal of safemalloc also allows a simplification of the
malloc wrappers, removing quite a bit of kludge: redefinition
of my_malloc, my_free and the removal of the unused second
argument of my_free. Since free() always check whether the
supplied pointer is null, redudant checks are also removed.
Also, this patch adds unit testing for my_malloc and moves
my_realloc implementation into the same file as the other
memory allocation primitives.
Apart strict-aliasing warnings, fix the remaining warnings
generated by GCC 4.4.4 -Wall and -Wextra flags.
One major source of warnings was the in-house function my_bcmp
which (unconventionally) took pointers to unsigned characters
as the byte sequences to be compared. Since my_bcmp and bcmp
are deprecated functions whose only difference with memcmp is
the return value, every use of the function is replaced with
memcmp as the special return value wasn't actually being used
by any caller.
There were also various other warnings, mostly due to type
mismatches, missing return values, missing prototypes, dead
code (unreachable) and ignored return values.
Accidental change in compile-time definitions for FreeBSD
Revert the accidental setting of "HAVE_BROKEN_REALPATH"
on current versions of FreeBSD,
do it for both autotools ("configure.in")
and cmake ("cmake/os/FreeBSD.cmake").
Due to a BZR bug, that merge was done by the following command:
bzr merge -r 'revid:tor.didriksen@sun.com-20100527074248-6qtv0p1ugy6o1hjo..' <mysql-trunk-bugfixing path>
and .tar.gz, windows vs linux..
On Intel x86 machines index selection by the MySQL query
optimizer could sometimes depend on the compiler version and
optimization flags used to build the server binary.
The problem was a result of a known issue with floating point
calculations on x86: since internal FPU precision (80 bit)
differs from precision used by programs (32-bit float or 64-bit
double), the result of calculating a complex expression may
depend on how FPU registers are allocated by the compiler and
whether intermediate values are spilled from FPU to memory. In
this particular case compiler versions and optimization flags
had an effect on cost calculation when choosing the best index
in best_access_path().
A possible solution to this problem which has already been
implemented in mysql-trunk is to limit FPU internal precision
to 64 bits. So the fix is a backport of the relevant code to
5.1 from mysql-trunk.
is not needed any more with current versions of FreeBSD.
(Entries 52410 and 52412 in the Bug DB)
That change is based on Dan Nelson replying on the
FreeBSD mailing list, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
in a thread running from 2010-Apr-29 to 2010-May-1 titled
"Need info about FreeBSD and interrupted system
calls for MySQL code"
Also, ensure the cmake settings correspond to the autotools
ones: Add "HAVE_BROKEN_REALPATH" to cmake.
The thing is that on some platforms (e.g. Mac OS X) sockaddr_in / sockaddr_in6
contain a non-standard field (sin_len / sin6_len), that must be set.
The problem was that only standard fields were set, thus getnameinfo() returned
EAI_SYSTEM instead of EAI_NONAME.
The fix is to introduce configure-time checks (for GNU auto-tools and CMake) for
those additional fields and to set them if they are available.
