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Date: 2023-05-31 04:12:22 Functions: 2 2 100.0 %
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       1             : /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
       2             :  *
       3             :  * walwriter.c
       4             :  *
       5             :  * The WAL writer background process is new as of Postgres 8.3.  It attempts
       6             :  * to keep regular backends from having to write out (and fsync) WAL pages.
       7             :  * Also, it guarantees that transaction commit records that weren't synced
       8             :  * to disk immediately upon commit (ie, were "asynchronously committed")
       9             :  * will reach disk within a knowable time --- which, as it happens, is at
      10             :  * most three times the wal_writer_delay cycle time.
      11             :  *
      12             :  * Note that as with the bgwriter for shared buffers, regular backends are
      13             :  * still empowered to issue WAL writes and fsyncs when the walwriter doesn't
      14             :  * keep up. This means that the WALWriter is not an essential process and
      15             :  * can shutdown quickly when requested.
      16             :  *
      17             :  * Because the walwriter's cycle is directly linked to the maximum delay
      18             :  * before async-commit transactions are guaranteed committed, it's probably
      19             :  * unwise to load additional functionality onto it.  For instance, if you've
      20             :  * got a yen to create xlog segments further in advance, that'd be better done
      21             :  * in bgwriter than in walwriter.
      22             :  *
      23             :  * The walwriter is started by the postmaster as soon as the startup subprocess
      24             :  * finishes.  It remains alive until the postmaster commands it to terminate.
      25             :  * Normal termination is by SIGTERM, which instructs the walwriter to exit(0).
      26             :  * Emergency termination is by SIGQUIT; like any backend, the walwriter will
      27             :  * simply abort and exit on SIGQUIT.
      28             :  *
      29             :  * If the walwriter exits unexpectedly, the postmaster treats that the same
      30             :  * as a backend crash: shared memory may be corrupted, so remaining backends
      31             :  * should be killed by SIGQUIT and then a recovery cycle started.
      32             :  *
      33             :  *
      34             :  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2023, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
      35             :  *
      36             :  *
      37             :  * IDENTIFICATION
      38             :  *    src/backend/postmaster/walwriter.c
      39             :  *
      40             :  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
      41             :  */
      42             : #include "postgres.h"
      43             : 
      44             : #include <signal.h>
      45             : #include <unistd.h>
      46             : 
      47             : #include "access/xlog.h"
      48             : #include "libpq/pqsignal.h"
      49             : #include "miscadmin.h"
      50             : #include "pgstat.h"
      51             : #include "postmaster/interrupt.h"
      52             : #include "postmaster/walwriter.h"
      53             : #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
      54             : #include "storage/condition_variable.h"
      55             : #include "storage/fd.h"
      56             : #include "storage/ipc.h"
      57             : #include "storage/lwlock.h"
      58             : #include "storage/proc.h"
      59             : #include "storage/procsignal.h"
      60             : #include "storage/smgr.h"
      61             : #include "utils/guc.h"
      62             : #include "utils/hsearch.h"
      63             : #include "utils/memutils.h"
      64             : #include "utils/resowner.h"
      65             : 
      66             : 
      67             : /*
      68             :  * GUC parameters
      69             :  */
      70             : int         WalWriterDelay = 200;
      71             : int         WalWriterFlushAfter = DEFAULT_WAL_WRITER_FLUSH_AFTER;
      72             : 
      73             : /*
      74             :  * Number of do-nothing loops before lengthening the delay time, and the
      75             :  * multiplier to apply to WalWriterDelay when we do decide to hibernate.
      76             :  * (Perhaps these need to be configurable?)
      77             :  */
      78             : #define LOOPS_UNTIL_HIBERNATE       50
      79             : #define HIBERNATE_FACTOR            25
      80             : 
      81             : /* Prototypes for private functions */
      82             : static void HandleWalWriterInterrupts(void);
      83             : 
      84             : /*
      85             :  * Main entry point for walwriter process
      86             :  *
      87             :  * This is invoked from AuxiliaryProcessMain, which has already created the
      88             :  * basic execution environment, but not enabled signals yet.
      89             :  */
      90             : void
      91         632 : WalWriterMain(void)
      92             : {
      93             :     sigjmp_buf  local_sigjmp_buf;
      94             :     MemoryContext walwriter_context;
      95             :     int         left_till_hibernate;
      96             :     bool        hibernating;
      97             : 
      98             :     /*
      99             :      * Properly accept or ignore signals the postmaster might send us
     100             :      *
     101             :      * We have no particular use for SIGINT at the moment, but seems
     102             :      * reasonable to treat like SIGTERM.
     103             :      */
     104         632 :     pqsignal(SIGHUP, SignalHandlerForConfigReload);
     105         632 :     pqsignal(SIGINT, SignalHandlerForShutdownRequest);
     106         632 :     pqsignal(SIGTERM, SignalHandlerForShutdownRequest);
     107             :     /* SIGQUIT handler was already set up by InitPostmasterChild */
     108         632 :     pqsignal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);
     109         632 :     pqsignal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
     110         632 :     pqsignal(SIGUSR1, procsignal_sigusr1_handler);
     111         632 :     pqsignal(SIGUSR2, SIG_IGN); /* not used */
     112             : 
     113             :     /*
     114             :      * Reset some signals that are accepted by postmaster but not here
     115             :      */
     116         632 :     pqsignal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
     117             : 
     118             :     /*
     119             :      * Create a memory context that we will do all our work in.  We do this so
     120             :      * that we can reset the context during error recovery and thereby avoid
     121             :      * possible memory leaks.  Formerly this code just ran in
     122             :      * TopMemoryContext, but resetting that would be a really bad idea.
     123             :      */
     124         632 :     walwriter_context = AllocSetContextCreate(TopMemoryContext,
     125             :                                               "Wal Writer",
     126             :                                               ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES);
     127         632 :     MemoryContextSwitchTo(walwriter_context);
     128             : 
     129             :     /*
     130             :      * If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here.
     131             :      *
     132             :      * You might wonder why this isn't coded as an infinite loop around a
     133             :      * PG_TRY construct.  The reason is that this is the bottom of the
     134             :      * exception stack, and so with PG_TRY there would be no exception handler
     135             :      * in force at all during the CATCH part.  By leaving the outermost setjmp
     136             :      * always active, we have at least some chance of recovering from an error
     137             :      * during error recovery.  (If we get into an infinite loop thereby, it
     138             :      * will soon be stopped by overflow of elog.c's internal state stack.)
     139             :      *
     140             :      * Note that we use sigsetjmp(..., 1), so that the prevailing signal mask
     141             :      * (to wit, BlockSig) will be restored when longjmp'ing to here.  Thus,
     142             :      * signals other than SIGQUIT will be blocked until we complete error
     143             :      * recovery.  It might seem that this policy makes the HOLD_INTERRUPTS()
     144             :      * call redundant, but it is not since InterruptPending might be set
     145             :      * already.
     146             :      */
     147         632 :     if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) != 0)
     148             :     {
     149             :         /* Since not using PG_TRY, must reset error stack by hand */
     150           0 :         error_context_stack = NULL;
     151             : 
     152             :         /* Prevent interrupts while cleaning up */
     153           0 :         HOLD_INTERRUPTS();
     154             : 
     155             :         /* Report the error to the server log */
     156           0 :         EmitErrorReport();
     157             : 
     158             :         /*
     159             :          * These operations are really just a minimal subset of
     160             :          * AbortTransaction().  We don't have very many resources to worry
     161             :          * about in walwriter, but we do have LWLocks, and perhaps buffers?
     162             :          */
     163           0 :         LWLockReleaseAll();
     164           0 :         ConditionVariableCancelSleep();
     165           0 :         pgstat_report_wait_end();
     166           0 :         UnlockBuffers();
     167           0 :         ReleaseAuxProcessResources(false);
     168           0 :         AtEOXact_Buffers(false);
     169           0 :         AtEOXact_SMgr();
     170           0 :         AtEOXact_Files(false);
     171           0 :         AtEOXact_HashTables(false);
     172             : 
     173             :         /*
     174             :          * Now return to normal top-level context and clear ErrorContext for
     175             :          * next time.
     176             :          */
     177           0 :         MemoryContextSwitchTo(walwriter_context);
     178           0 :         FlushErrorState();
     179             : 
     180             :         /* Flush any leaked data in the top-level context */
     181           0 :         MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren(walwriter_context);
     182             : 
     183             :         /* Now we can allow interrupts again */
     184           0 :         RESUME_INTERRUPTS();
     185             : 
     186             :         /*
     187             :          * Sleep at least 1 second after any error.  A write error is likely
     188             :          * to be repeated, and we don't want to be filling the error logs as
     189             :          * fast as we can.
     190             :          */
     191           0 :         pg_usleep(1000000L);
     192             : 
     193             :         /*
     194             :          * Close all open files after any error.  This is helpful on Windows,
     195             :          * where holding deleted files open causes various strange errors.
     196             :          * It's not clear we need it elsewhere, but shouldn't hurt.
     197             :          */
     198           0 :         smgrcloseall();
     199             :     }
     200             : 
     201             :     /* We can now handle ereport(ERROR) */
     202         632 :     PG_exception_stack = &local_sigjmp_buf;
     203             : 
     204             :     /*
     205             :      * Unblock signals (they were blocked when the postmaster forked us)
     206             :      */
     207         632 :     sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &UnBlockSig, NULL);
     208             : 
     209             :     /*
     210             :      * Reset hibernation state after any error.
     211             :      */
     212         632 :     left_till_hibernate = LOOPS_UNTIL_HIBERNATE;
     213         632 :     hibernating = false;
     214         632 :     SetWalWriterSleeping(false);
     215             : 
     216             :     /*
     217             :      * Advertise our latch that backends can use to wake us up while we're
     218             :      * sleeping.
     219             :      */
     220         632 :     ProcGlobal->walwriterLatch = &MyProc->procLatch;
     221             : 
     222             :     /*
     223             :      * Loop forever
     224             :      */
     225             :     for (;;)
     226       22790 :     {
     227             :         long        cur_timeout;
     228             : 
     229             :         /*
     230             :          * Advertise whether we might hibernate in this cycle.  We do this
     231             :          * before resetting the latch to ensure that any async commits will
     232             :          * see the flag set if they might possibly need to wake us up, and
     233             :          * that we won't miss any signal they send us.  (If we discover work
     234             :          * to do in the last cycle before we would hibernate, the global flag
     235             :          * will be set unnecessarily, but little harm is done.)  But avoid
     236             :          * touching the global flag if it doesn't need to change.
     237             :          */
     238       23422 :         if (hibernating != (left_till_hibernate <= 1))
     239             :         {
     240          22 :             hibernating = (left_till_hibernate <= 1);
     241          22 :             SetWalWriterSleeping(hibernating);
     242             :         }
     243             : 
     244             :         /* Clear any already-pending wakeups */
     245       23422 :         ResetLatch(MyLatch);
     246             : 
     247             :         /* Process any signals received recently */
     248       23422 :         HandleWalWriterInterrupts();
     249             : 
     250             :         /*
     251             :          * Do what we're here for; then, if XLogBackgroundFlush() found useful
     252             :          * work to do, reset hibernation counter.
     253             :          */
     254       22796 :         if (XLogBackgroundFlush())
     255       12962 :             left_till_hibernate = LOOPS_UNTIL_HIBERNATE;
     256        9834 :         else if (left_till_hibernate > 0)
     257        9818 :             left_till_hibernate--;
     258             : 
     259             :         /* report pending statistics to the cumulative stats system */
     260       22796 :         pgstat_report_wal(false);
     261             : 
     262             :         /*
     263             :          * Sleep until we are signaled or WalWriterDelay has elapsed.  If we
     264             :          * haven't done anything useful for quite some time, lengthen the
     265             :          * sleep time so as to reduce the server's idle power consumption.
     266             :          */
     267       22796 :         if (left_till_hibernate > 0)
     268       22766 :             cur_timeout = WalWriterDelay;   /* in ms */
     269             :         else
     270          30 :             cur_timeout = WalWriterDelay * HIBERNATE_FACTOR;
     271             : 
     272       22796 :         (void) WaitLatch(MyLatch,
     273             :                          WL_LATCH_SET | WL_TIMEOUT | WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH,
     274             :                          cur_timeout,
     275             :                          WAIT_EVENT_WAL_WRITER_MAIN);
     276             :     }
     277             : }
     278             : 
     279             : /*
     280             :  * Interrupt handler for main loops of WAL writer process.
     281             :  */
     282             : static void
     283       23422 : HandleWalWriterInterrupts(void)
     284             : {
     285       23422 :     if (ProcSignalBarrierPending)
     286          44 :         ProcessProcSignalBarrier();
     287             : 
     288       23422 :     if (ConfigReloadPending)
     289             :     {
     290          50 :         ConfigReloadPending = false;
     291          50 :         ProcessConfigFile(PGC_SIGHUP);
     292             :     }
     293             : 
     294       23422 :     if (ShutdownRequestPending)
     295         626 :         proc_exit(0);
     296             : 
     297             :     /* Perform logging of memory contexts of this process */
     298       22796 :     if (LogMemoryContextPending)
     299           0 :         ProcessLogMemoryContextInterrupt();
     300       22796 : }

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