-
Venkatesh Duggirala authored
SHOW PROCESSLIST, SHOW BINLOGS Merge from mysql-5.5 ( Fix is changed from mysql-5.5's patch) Problem: A deadlock was occurring when 4 threads were involved in acquiring locks in the following way Thread 1: Dump thread ( Slave is reconnecting, so on Master, a new dump thread is trying kill zombie dump threads. It acquired thread's LOCK_thd_data and it is about to acquire mysys_var->current_mutex ( which LOCK_log) Thread 2: Application thread is executing show binlogs and acquired LOCK_log and it is about to acquire LOCK_index. Thread 3: Application thread is executing Purge binary logs and acquired LOCK_index and it is about to acquire LOCK_thread_count. Thread 4: Application thread is executing show processlist and acquired LOCK_thread_count and it is about to acquire zombie dump thread's LOCK_thd_data. Deadlock Cycle: Thread 1 -> Thread 2 -> Thread 3-> Thread 4 ->Thread 1 The same above deadlock was observed even when thread 4 is executing 'SELECT * FROM information_schema.processlist' command and acquired LOCK_thread_count and it is about to acquire zombie dump thread's LOCK_thd_data. Analysis: There are four locks involved in the deadlock. LOCK_log, LOCK_thread_count, LOCK_index and LOCK_thd_data. LOCK_log, LOCK_thread_count, LOCK_index are global mutexes where as LOCK_thd_data is local to a thread. We can divide these four locks in two groups. Group 1 consists of LOCK_log and LOCK_index and the order should be LOCK_log followed by LOCK_index. Group 2 consists of other two mutexes LOCK_thread_count, LOCK_thd_data and the order should be LOCK_thread_count followed by LOCK_thd_data. Unfortunately, there is no specific predefined lock order defined to follow in the MySQL system when it comes to locks across these two groups. In the above problematic example, there is no problem in the way we are acquiring the locks if you see each thread individually. But If you combine all 4 threads, they end up in a deadlock. Fix: Since everything seems to be fine in the way threads are taking locks, In this patch We are changing the duration of the locks in Thread 4 to break the deadlock. i.e., before the patch, Thread 4 ('show processlist' command) mysqld_list_processes() function acquires LOCK_thread_count for the complete duration of the function and it also acquires/releases each thread's LOCK_thd_data. Instead of it, Now it will take a copy of THDs from global_thread_list and perform traversal (on copied THDs) only after releasing LOCK on LOCK_thread_count. During traversal(on copied THDs), removal from global_thread_list is blocked using another mutex LOCK_thd_remove such that THD copied are valid during traversal(otherwise remove destroys THD). Now the new locking order after this patch is: LOCK_thd_remove -> LOCK_thd_data -> LOCK_log -> LOCK_index -> LOCK_thread_count
Venkatesh Duggirala authoredSHOW PROCESSLIST, SHOW BINLOGS Merge from mysql-5.5 ( Fix is changed from mysql-5.5's patch) Problem: A deadlock was occurring when 4 threads were involved in acquiring locks in the following way Thread 1: Dump thread ( Slave is reconnecting, so on Master, a new dump thread is trying kill zombie dump threads. It acquired thread's LOCK_thd_data and it is about to acquire mysys_var->current_mutex ( which LOCK_log) Thread 2: Application thread is executing show binlogs and acquired LOCK_log and it is about to acquire LOCK_index. Thread 3: Application thread is executing Purge binary logs and acquired LOCK_index and it is about to acquire LOCK_thread_count. Thread 4: Application thread is executing show processlist and acquired LOCK_thread_count and it is about to acquire zombie dump thread's LOCK_thd_data. Deadlock Cycle: Thread 1 -> Thread 2 -> Thread 3-> Thread 4 ->Thread 1 The same above deadlock was observed even when thread 4 is executing 'SELECT * FROM information_schema.processlist' command and acquired LOCK_thread_count and it is about to acquire zombie dump thread's LOCK_thd_data. Analysis: There are four locks involved in the deadlock. LOCK_log, LOCK_thread_count, LOCK_index and LOCK_thd_data. LOCK_log, LOCK_thread_count, LOCK_index are global mutexes where as LOCK_thd_data is local to a thread. We can divide these four locks in two groups. Group 1 consists of LOCK_log and LOCK_index and the order should be LOCK_log followed by LOCK_index. Group 2 consists of other two mutexes LOCK_thread_count, LOCK_thd_data and the order should be LOCK_thread_count followed by LOCK_thd_data. Unfortunately, there is no specific predefined lock order defined to follow in the MySQL system when it comes to locks across these two groups. In the above problematic example, there is no problem in the way we are acquiring the locks if you see each thread individually. But If you combine all 4 threads, they end up in a deadlock. Fix: Since everything seems to be fine in the way threads are taking locks, In this patch We are changing the duration of the locks in Thread 4 to break the deadlock. i.e., before the patch, Thread 4 ('show processlist' command) mysqld_list_processes() function acquires LOCK_thread_count for the complete duration of the function and it also acquires/releases each thread's LOCK_thd_data. Instead of it, Now it will take a copy of THDs from global_thread_list and perform traversal (on copied THDs) only after releasing LOCK on LOCK_thread_count. During traversal(on copied THDs), removal from global_thread_list is blocked using another mutex LOCK_thd_remove such that THD copied are valid during traversal(otherwise remove destroys THD). Now the new locking order after this patch is: LOCK_thd_remove -> LOCK_thd_data -> LOCK_log -> LOCK_index -> LOCK_thread_count
Loading