Hi,
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 12:39 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for finding / debugging this issue!
>
> On 2023-07-21 17:01:11 +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> > I've reproduced the issue in my environment with the provided script.
> > The crashed process is not a parallel vacuum worker actually but a
> > parallel worker for rebuilding the index. The scenario seems that when
> > detecting a deadlock, the process removes itself from the wait queue
> > by RemoveFromWaitQueue() (called by CheckDeadLock()), and then
> > RemoveFromWaitQueue() is called again by LockErrorCleanup() while
> > aborting the transaction. With commit 5764f611e, in
> > RemoveFromWaitQueue() we remove the process from the wait queue using
> > dclist_delete_from():
> >
> > /* Remove proc from lock's wait queue */
> > dclist_delete_from(&waitLock->waitProcs, &proc->links);
> > :
> > /* Clean up the proc's own state, and pass it the ok/fail signal */
> > proc->waitLock = NULL;
> > proc->waitProcLock = NULL;
> > proc->waitStatus = PROC_WAIT_STATUS_ERROR;
> >
> > However, since dclist_delete_from() doesn't clear proc->links, in
> > LockErrorCleanup(), dlist_node_is_detached() still returns false:
> >
> > if (!dlist_node_is_detached(&MyProc->links))
> > {
> > /* We could not have been granted the lock yet */
> > RemoveFromWaitQueue(MyProc, lockAwaited->hashcode);
> > }
>
> Indeed :(
>
>
> > leading to calling RemoveFromWaitQueue() again. I think we should use
> > dclist_delete_from_thoroughly() instead. With the attached patch, the
> > issue doesn't happen in my environment.
>
> Yep. Do you want to push that fix, or should I?
Thank you for your confirmation. I can push the fix if you're okay.
I've attached the patch.
>
>
> > Another thing I noticed is that the Assert(waitLock) in
> > RemoveFromWaitQueue() is useless actually, since we access *waitLock
> > before that:
> >
> > I think we should fix it as well. This fix is also included in the
> > attached patch.
>
> Don't really have an opinion on that. It's been this way for longer, afaict.
True. I would leave this part alone. We can fix it in a separate
commit later if necessary.
Regards,
--
Masahiko Sawada
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