Prevent GIN deleted pages from being reclaimed too early

akorotkov · akorotkov · commit 1cf175c74f10 · 2018-12-13T06:52:26.000+03:00
When GIN vacuum deletes a posting tree page, it assumes that no concurrent searchers can access it, thanks to ginStepRight() locking two pages at once. However, since 9.4 searches can skip parts of posting trees descending from the root. That leads to the risk that page is deleted and reclaimed before concurrent search can access it. This commit prevents the risk of above by waiting for every transaction, which might wait to reference this page, to finish. Due to binary compatibility we can't change GinPageOpaqueData to store corresponding transaction id. Instead we reuse page header pd_prune_xid field, which is unused in index pages. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31a702a.14dd.166c1366ac1.Coremail.chjischj%40163.com Author: Andrey Borodin, Alexander Korotkov Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov Backpatch-through: 9.4
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/README b/src/backend/access/gin/README
@@ -304,12 +304,10 @@ the lock on next page has been acquired.
 The downlink is more tricky. A search descending the tree must release the
 lock on the parent page before locking the child, or it could deadlock with
 a concurrent split of the child page; a page split locks the parent, while
-already holding a lock on the child page. However, posting trees are only
-fully searched from left to right, starting from the leftmost leaf. (The
-tree-structure is only needed by insertions, to quickly find the correct
-insert location). So as long as we don't delete the leftmost page on each
-level, a search can never follow a downlink to page that's about to be
-deleted.
+already holding a lock on the child page. So, deleted page cannot be reclaimed
+immediately. Instead, we have to wait for every transaction, which might wait
+to reference this page, to finish. Corresponding processes must observe that
+the page is marked deleted and recover accordingly.
 
 The previous paragraph's reasoning only applies to searches, and only to
 posting trees. To protect from inserters following a downlink to a deleted
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginutil.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginutil.c
@@ -227,12 +227,7 @@ GinNewBuffer(Relation index)
 		 */
 		if (ConditionalLockBuffer(buffer))
 		{
-			Page		page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
-
-			if (PageIsNew(page))
-				return buffer;	/* OK to use, if never initialized */
-
-			if (GinPageIsDeleted(page))
+			if (GinPageIsRecyclable(BufferGetPage(buffer)))
 				return buffer;	/* OK to use */
 
 			LockBuffer(buffer, GIN_UNLOCK);
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginvacuum.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginvacuum.c
@@ -261,6 +261,9 @@ ginDeletePage(GinVacuumState *gvs, BlockNumber deleteBlkno, BlockNumber leftBlkn
 	page = BufferGetPage(dBuffer);
 	rightlink = GinPageGetOpaque(page)->rightlink;
 
+	/* For deleted page remember last xid which could knew its address */
+	GinPageSetDeleteXid(page, ReadNewTransactionId());
+
 	page = BufferGetPage(lBuffer);
 	GinPageGetOpaque(page)->rightlink = rightlink;
 
@@ -300,6 +303,7 @@ ginDeletePage(GinVacuumState *gvs, BlockNumber deleteBlkno, BlockNumber leftBlkn
 		data.parentOffset = myoff;
 		data.leftBlkno = leftBlkno;
 		data.rightLink = GinPageGetOpaque(page)->rightlink;
+		data.deleteXid = GinPageGetDeleteXid(page);
 
 		/*
 		 * We can't pass buffer_std = TRUE, because we didn't set pd_lower on
@@ -777,7 +781,7 @@ ginvacuumcleanup(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 		LockBuffer(buffer, GIN_SHARE);
 		page = (Page) BufferGetPage(buffer);
 
-		if (PageIsNew(page) || GinPageIsDeleted(page))
+		if (GinPageIsRecyclable(page))
 		{
 			Assert(blkno != GIN_ROOT_BLKNO);
 			RecordFreeIndexPage(index, blkno);
diff --git a/src/include/access/gin_private.h b/src/include/access/gin_private.h
@@ -13,9 +13,11 @@
 #include "access/genam.h"
 #include "access/gin.h"
 #include "access/itup.h"
+#include "access/transam.h"
 #include "fmgr.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
 #include "utils/rbtree.h"
+#include "utils/snapmgr.h"
 
 
 /*
@@ -131,6 +133,15 @@ typedef struct GinMetaPageData
 
 #define GinPageRightMost(page) ( GinPageGetOpaque(page)->rightlink == InvalidBlockNumber)
 
+/*
+ * We should reclaim deleted page only once every transaction started before
+ * its deletion is over.
+ */
+#define GinPageGetDeleteXid(page) ( ((PageHeader) (page))->pd_prune_xid )
+#define GinPageSetDeleteXid(page, xid) ( ((PageHeader) (page))->pd_prune_xid = xid)
+#define GinPageIsRecyclable(page) ( PageIsNew(page) || (GinPageIsDeleted(page) \
+	&& TransactionIdPrecedes(GinPageGetDeleteXid(page), RecentGlobalDataXmin)))
+
 /*
  * We use our own ItemPointerGet(BlockNumber|OffsetNumber)
  * to avoid Asserts, since sometimes the ip_posid isn't "valid"
@@ -572,6 +583,7 @@ typedef struct ginxlogDeletePage
 	OffsetNumber parentOffset;
 	BlockNumber leftBlkno;
 	BlockNumber rightLink;
+	TransactionId deleteXid;	/* last Xid which could see this page in scan */
 } ginxlogDeletePage;
 
 #define XLOG_GIN_UPDATE_META_PAGE 0x60
