/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * bgwriter.c * * The background writer (bgwriter) is new as of Postgres 8.0. It attempts * to keep regular backends from having to write out dirty shared buffers * (which they would only do when needing to free a shared buffer to read in * another page). In the best scenario all writes from shared buffers will * be issued by the background writer process. However, regular backends are * still empowered to issue writes if the bgwriter fails to maintain enough * clean shared buffers. * * The bgwriter is also charged with handling all checkpoints. It will * automatically dispatch a checkpoint after a certain amount of time has * elapsed since the last one, and it can be signaled to perform requested * checkpoints as well. (The GUC parameter that mandates a checkpoint every * so many WAL segments is implemented by having backends signal the bgwriter * when they fill WAL segments; the bgwriter itself doesn't watch for the * condition.) * * The bgwriter is started by the postmaster as soon as the startup subprocess * finishes, or as soon as recovery begins if we are doing archive recovery. * It remains alive until the postmaster commands it to terminate. * Normal termination is by SIGUSR2, which instructs the bgwriter to execute * a shutdown checkpoint and then exit(0). (All backends must be stopped * before SIGUSR2 is issued!) Emergency termination is by SIGQUIT; like any * backend, the bgwriter will simply abort and exit on SIGQUIT. * * If the bgwriter exits unexpectedly, the postmaster treats that the same * as a backend crash: shared memory may be corrupted, so remaining backends * should be killed by SIGQUIT and then a recovery cycle started. (Even if * shared memory isn't corrupted, we have lost information about which * files need to be fsync'd for the next checkpoint, and so a system * restart needs to be forced.) * * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2011, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * * * IDENTIFICATION * src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #include "postgres.h" #include #include #include #include #include "access/xlog_internal.h" #include "libpq/pqsignal.h" #include "miscadmin.h" #include "pgstat.h" #include "postmaster/bgwriter.h" #include "replication/syncrep.h" #include "storage/bufmgr.h" #include "storage/ipc.h" #include "storage/lwlock.h" #include "storage/pmsignal.h" #include "storage/shmem.h" #include "storage/smgr.h" #include "storage/spin.h" #include "utils/guc.h" #include "utils/memutils.h" #include "utils/resowner.h" /*---------- * Shared memory area for communication between bgwriter and backends * * The ckpt counters allow backends to watch for completion of a checkpoint * request they send. Here's how it works: * * At start of a checkpoint, bgwriter reads (and clears) the request flags * and increments ckpt_started, while holding ckpt_lck. * * On completion of a checkpoint, bgwriter sets ckpt_done to * equal ckpt_started. * * On failure of a checkpoint, bgwriter increments ckpt_failed * and sets ckpt_done to equal ckpt_started. * * The algorithm for backends is: * 1. Record current values of ckpt_failed and ckpt_started, and * set request flags, while holding ckpt_lck. * 2. Send signal to request checkpoint. * 3. Sleep until ckpt_started changes. Now you know a checkpoint has * begun since you started this algorithm (although *not* that it was * specifically initiated by your signal), and that it is using your flags. * 4. Record new value of ckpt_started. * 5. Sleep until ckpt_done >= saved value of ckpt_started. (Use modulo * arithmetic here in case counters wrap around.) Now you know a * checkpoint has started and completed, but not whether it was * successful. * 6. If ckpt_failed is different from the originally saved value, * assume request failed; otherwise it was definitely successful. * * ckpt_flags holds the OR of the checkpoint request flags sent by all * requesting backends since the last checkpoint start. The flags are * chosen so that OR'ing is the correct way to combine multiple requests. * * num_backend_writes is used to count the number of buffer writes performed * by non-bgwriter processes. This counter should be wide enough that it * can't overflow during a single bgwriter cycle. num_backend_fsync * counts the subset of those writes that also had to do their own fsync, * because the background writer failed to absorb their request. * * The requests array holds fsync requests sent by backends and not yet * absorbed by the bgwriter. * * Unlike the checkpoint fields, num_backend_writes, num_backend_fsync, and * the requests fields are protected by BgWriterCommLock. *---------- */ typedef struct { RelFileNodeBackend rnode; ForkNumber forknum; BlockNumber segno; /* see md.c for special values */ /* might add a real request-type field later; not needed yet */ } BgWriterRequest; typedef struct { pid_t bgwriter_pid; /* PID of bgwriter (0 if not started) */ slock_t ckpt_lck; /* protects all the ckpt_* fields */ int ckpt_started; /* advances when checkpoint starts */ int ckpt_done; /* advances when checkpoint done */ int ckpt_failed; /* advances when checkpoint fails */ int ckpt_flags; /* checkpoint flags, as defined in xlog.h */ uint32 num_backend_writes; /* counts non-bgwriter buffer writes */ uint32 num_backend_fsync; /* counts non-bgwriter fsync calls */ int num_requests; /* current # of requests */ int max_requests; /* allocated array size */ BgWriterRequest requests[1]; /* VARIABLE LENGTH ARRAY */ } BgWriterShmemStruct; static BgWriterShmemStruct *BgWriterShmem; /* interval for calling AbsorbFsyncRequests in CheckpointWriteDelay */ #define WRITES_PER_ABSORB 1000 /* * GUC parameters */ int BgWriterDelay = 200; int CheckPointTimeout = 300; int CheckPointWarning = 30; double CheckPointCompletionTarget = 0.5; /* * Flags set by interrupt handlers for later service in the main loop. */ static volatile sig_atomic_t got_SIGHUP = false; static volatile sig_atomic_t checkpoint_requested = false; static volatile sig_atomic_t shutdown_requested = false; /* * Private state */ static bool am_bg_writer = false; static bool ckpt_active = false; /* these values are valid when ckpt_active is true: */ static pg_time_t ckpt_start_time; static XLogRecPtr ckpt_start_recptr; static double ckpt_cached_elapsed; static pg_time_t last_checkpoint_time; static pg_time_t last_xlog_switch_time; /* Prototypes for private functions */ static void CheckArchiveTimeout(void); static void BgWriterNap(void); static bool IsCheckpointOnSchedule(double progress); static bool ImmediateCheckpointRequested(void); static bool CompactBgwriterRequestQueue(void); /* Signal handlers */ static void bg_quickdie(SIGNAL_ARGS); static void BgSigHupHandler(SIGNAL_ARGS); static void ReqCheckpointHandler(SIGNAL_ARGS); static void ReqShutdownHandler(SIGNAL_ARGS); /* * Main entry point for bgwriter process * * This is invoked from BootstrapMain, which has already created the basic * execution environment, but not enabled signals yet. */ void BackgroundWriterMain(void) { sigjmp_buf local_sigjmp_buf; MemoryContext bgwriter_context; BgWriterShmem->bgwriter_pid = MyProcPid; am_bg_writer = true; /* * If possible, make this process a group leader, so that the postmaster * can signal any child processes too. (bgwriter probably never has any * child processes, but for consistency we make all postmaster child * processes do this.) */ #ifdef HAVE_SETSID if (setsid() < 0) elog(FATAL, "setsid() failed: %m"); #endif /* * Properly accept or ignore signals the postmaster might send us * * Note: we deliberately ignore SIGTERM, because during a standard Unix * system shutdown cycle, init will SIGTERM all processes at once. We * want to wait for the backends to exit, whereupon the postmaster will * tell us it's okay to shut down (via SIGUSR2). * * SIGUSR1 is presently unused; keep it spare in case someday we want this * process to participate in ProcSignal signalling. */ pqsignal(SIGHUP, BgSigHupHandler); /* set flag to read config file */ pqsignal(SIGINT, ReqCheckpointHandler); /* request checkpoint */ pqsignal(SIGTERM, SIG_IGN); /* ignore SIGTERM */ pqsignal(SIGQUIT, bg_quickdie); /* hard crash time */ pqsignal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN); pqsignal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); pqsignal(SIGUSR1, SIG_IGN); /* reserve for ProcSignal */ pqsignal(SIGUSR2, ReqShutdownHandler); /* request shutdown */ /* * Reset some signals that are accepted by postmaster but not here */ pqsignal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGTTIN, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGTTOU, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGCONT, SIG_DFL); pqsignal(SIGWINCH, SIG_DFL); /* We allow SIGQUIT (quickdie) at all times */ sigdelset(&BlockSig, SIGQUIT); /* * Initialize so that first time-driven event happens at the correct time. */ last_checkpoint_time = last_xlog_switch_time = (pg_time_t) time(NULL); /* * Create a resource owner to keep track of our resources (currently only * buffer pins). */ CurrentResourceOwner = ResourceOwnerCreate(NULL, "Background Writer"); /* * Create a memory context that we will do all our work in. We do this so * that we can reset the context during error recovery and thereby avoid * possible memory leaks. Formerly this code just ran in * TopMemoryContext, but resetting that would be a really bad idea. */ bgwriter_context = AllocSetContextCreate(TopMemoryContext, "Background Writer", ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_MINSIZE, ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_INITSIZE, ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_MAXSIZE); MemoryContextSwitchTo(bgwriter_context); /* * If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here. * * See notes in postgres.c about the design of this coding. */ if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) != 0) { /* Since not using PG_TRY, must reset error stack by hand */ error_context_stack = NULL; /* Prevent interrupts while cleaning up */ HOLD_INTERRUPTS(); /* Report the error to the server log */ EmitErrorReport(); /* * These operations are really just a minimal subset of * AbortTransaction(). We don't have very many resources to worry * about in bgwriter, but we do have LWLocks, buffers, and temp files. */ LWLockReleaseAll(); AbortBufferIO(); UnlockBuffers(); /* buffer pins are released here: */ ResourceOwnerRelease(CurrentResourceOwner, RESOURCE_RELEASE_BEFORE_LOCKS, false, true); /* we needn't bother with the other ResourceOwnerRelease phases */ AtEOXact_Buffers(false); AtEOXact_Files(); AtEOXact_HashTables(false); /* Warn any waiting backends that the checkpoint failed. */ if (ckpt_active) { /* use volatile pointer to prevent code rearrangement */ volatile BgWriterShmemStruct *bgs = BgWriterShmem; SpinLockAcquire(&bgs->ckpt_lck); bgs->ckpt_failed++; bgs->ckpt_done = bgs->ckpt_started; SpinLockRelease(&bgs->ckpt_lck); ckpt_active = false; } /* * Now return to normal top-level context and clear ErrorContext for * next time. */ MemoryContextSwitchTo(bgwriter_context); FlushErrorState(); /* Flush any leaked data in the top-level context */ MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren(bgwriter_context); /* Now we can allow interrupts again */ RESUME_INTERRUPTS(); /* * Sleep at least 1 second after any error. A write error is likely * to be repeated, and we don't want to be filling the error logs as * fast as we can. */ pg_usleep(1000000L); /* * Close all open files after any error. This is helpful on Windows, * where holding deleted files open causes various strange errors. * It's not clear we need it elsewhere, but shouldn't hurt. */ smgrcloseall(); } /* We can now handle ereport(ERROR) */ PG_exception_stack = &local_sigjmp_buf; /* * Unblock signals (they were blocked when the postmaster forked us) */ PG_SETMASK(&UnBlockSig); /* * Use the recovery target timeline ID during recovery */ if (RecoveryInProgress()) ThisTimeLineID = GetRecoveryTargetTLI(); /* Do this once before starting the loop, then just at SIGHUP time. */ SyncRepUpdateSyncStandbysDefined(); /* * Loop forever */ for (;;) { bool do_checkpoint = false; int flags = 0; pg_time_t now; int elapsed_secs; /* * Emergency bailout if postmaster has died. This is to avoid the * necessity for manual cleanup of all postmaster children. */ if (!PostmasterIsAlive()) exit(1); /* * Process any requests or signals received recently. */ AbsorbFsyncRequests(); if (got_SIGHUP) { got_SIGHUP = false; ProcessConfigFile(PGC_SIGHUP); /* update global shmem state for sync rep */ SyncRepUpdateSyncStandbysDefined(); } if (checkpoint_requested) { checkpoint_requested = false; do_checkpoint = true; BgWriterStats.m_requested_checkpoints++; } if (shutdown_requested) { /* * From here on, elog(ERROR) should end with exit(1), not send * control back to the sigsetjmp block above */ ExitOnAnyError = true; /* Close down the database */ ShutdownXLOG(0, 0); /* Normal exit from the bgwriter is here */ proc_exit(0); /* done */ } /* * Force a checkpoint if too much time has elapsed since the last one. * Note that we count a timed checkpoint in stats only when this * occurs without an external request, but we set the CAUSE_TIME flag * bit even if there is also an external request. */ now = (pg_time_t) time(NULL); elapsed_secs = now - last_checkpoint_time; if (elapsed_secs >= CheckPointTimeout) { if (!do_checkpoint) BgWriterStats.m_timed_checkpoints++; do_checkpoint = true; flags |= CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_TIME; } /* * Do a checkpoint if requested, otherwise do one cycle of * dirty-buffer writing. */ if (do_checkpoint) { bool ckpt_performed = false; bool do_restartpoint; /* use volatile pointer to prevent code rearrangement */ volatile BgWriterShmemStruct *bgs = BgWriterShmem; /* * Check if we should perform a checkpoint or a restartpoint. As a * side-effect, RecoveryInProgress() initializes TimeLineID if * it's not set yet. */ do_restartpoint = RecoveryInProgress(); /* * Atomically fetch the request flags to figure out what kind of a * checkpoint we should perform, and increase the started-counter * to acknowledge that we've started a new checkpoint. */ SpinLockAcquire(&bgs->ckpt_lck); flags |= bgs->ckpt_flags; bgs->ckpt_flags = 0; bgs->ckpt_started++; SpinLockRelease(&bgs->ckpt_lck); /* * The end-of-recovery checkpoint is a real checkpoint that's * performed while we're still in recovery. */ if (flags & CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY) do_restartpoint = false; /* * We will warn if (a) too soon since last checkpoint (whatever * caused it) and (b) somebody set the CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_XLOG flag * since the last checkpoint start. Note in particular that this * implementation will not generate warnings caused by * CheckPointTimeout < CheckPointWarning. */ if (!do_restartpoint && (flags & CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_XLOG) && elapsed_secs < CheckPointWarning) ereport(LOG, (errmsg_plural("checkpoints are occurring too frequently (%d second apart)", "checkpoints are occurring too frequently (%d seconds apart)", elapsed_secs, elapsed_secs), errhint("Consider increasing the configuration parameter \"checkpoint_segments\"."))); /* * Initialize bgwriter-private variables used during checkpoint. */ ckpt_active = true; if (!do_restartpoint) ckpt_start_recptr = GetInsertRecPtr(); ckpt_start_time = now; ckpt_cached_elapsed = 0; /* * Do the checkpoint. */ if (!do_restartpoint) { CreateCheckPoint(flags); ckpt_performed = true; } else ckpt_performed = CreateRestartPoint(flags); /* * After any checkpoint, close all smgr files. This is so we * won't hang onto smgr references to deleted files indefinitely. */ smgrcloseall(); /* * Indicate checkpoint completion to any waiting backends. */ SpinLockAcquire(&bgs->ckpt_lck); bgs->ckpt_done = bgs->ckpt_started; SpinLockRelease(&bgs->ckpt_lck); if (ckpt_performed) { /* * Note we record the checkpoint start time not end time as * last_checkpoint_time. This is so that time-driven * checkpoints happen at a predictable spacing. */ last_checkpoint_time = now; } else { /* * We were not able to perform the restartpoint (checkpoints * throw an ERROR in case of error). Most likely because we * have not received any new checkpoint WAL records since the * last restartpoint. Try again in 15 s. */ last_checkpoint_time = now - CheckPointTimeout + 15; } ckpt_active = false; } else BgBufferSync(); /* Check for archive_timeout and switch xlog files if necessary. */ CheckArchiveTimeout(); /* Nap for the configured time. */ BgWriterNap(); } } /* * CheckArchiveTimeout -- check for archive_timeout and switch xlog files * * This will switch to a new WAL file and force an archive file write * if any activity is recorded in the current WAL file, including just * a single checkpoint record. */ static void CheckArchiveTimeout(void) { pg_time_t now; pg_time_t last_time; if (XLogArchiveTimeout <= 0 || RecoveryInProgress()) return; now = (pg_time_t) time(NULL); /* First we do a quick check using possibly-stale local state. */ if ((int) (now - last_xlog_switch_time) < XLogArchiveTimeout) return; /* * Update local state ... note that last_xlog_switch_time is the last time * a switch was performed *or requested*. */ last_time = GetLastSegSwitchTime(); last_xlog_switch_time = Max(last_xlog_switch_time, last_time); /* Now we can do the real check */ if ((int) (now - last_xlog_switch_time) >= XLogArchiveTimeout) { XLogRecPtr switchpoint; /* OK, it's time to switch */ switchpoint = RequestXLogSwitch(); /* * If the returned pointer points exactly to a segment boundary, * assume nothing happened. */ if ((switchpoint.xrecoff % XLogSegSize) != 0) ereport(DEBUG1, (errmsg("transaction log switch forced (archive_timeout=%d)", XLogArchiveTimeout))); /* * Update state in any case, so we don't retry constantly when the * system is idle. */ last_xlog_switch_time = now; } } /* * BgWriterNap -- Nap for the configured time or until a signal is received. */ static void BgWriterNap(void) { long udelay; /* * Send off activity statistics to the stats collector */ pgstat_send_bgwriter(); /* * Nap for the configured time, or sleep for 10 seconds if there is no * bgwriter activity configured. * * On some platforms, signals won't interrupt the sleep. To ensure we * respond reasonably promptly when someone signals us, break down the * sleep into 1-second increments, and check for interrupts after each * nap. * * We absorb pending requests after each short sleep. */ if (bgwriter_lru_maxpages > 0 || ckpt_active) udelay = BgWriterDelay * 1000L; else if (XLogArchiveTimeout > 0) udelay = 1000000L; /* One second */ else udelay = 10000000L; /* Ten seconds */ while (udelay > 999999L) { if (got_SIGHUP || shutdown_requested || (ckpt_active ? ImmediateCheckpointRequested() : checkpoint_requested)) break; pg_usleep(1000000L); AbsorbFsyncRequests(); udelay -= 1000000L; } if (!(got_SIGHUP || shutdown_requested || (ckpt_active ? ImmediateCheckpointRequested() : checkpoint_requested))) pg_usleep(udelay); } /* * Returns true if an immediate checkpoint request is pending. (Note that * this does not check the *current* checkpoint's IMMEDIATE flag, but whether * there is one pending behind it.) */ static bool ImmediateCheckpointRequested(void) { if (checkpoint_requested) { volatile BgWriterShmemStruct *bgs = BgWriterShmem; /* * We don't need to acquire the ckpt_lck in this case because we're * only looking at a single flag bit. */ if (bgs->ckpt_flags & CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE) return true; } return false; } /* * CheckpointWriteDelay -- yield control to bgwriter during a checkpoint * * This function is called after each page write performed by BufferSync(). * It is responsible for keeping the bgwriter's normal activities in * progress during a long checkpoint, and for throttling BufferSync()'s * write rate to hit checkpoint_completion_target. * * The checkpoint request flags should be passed in; currently the only one * examined is CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE, which disables delays between writes. * * 'progress' is an estimate of how much of the work has been done, as a * fraction between 0.0 meaning none, and 1.0 meaning all done. */ void CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress) { static int absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; /* Do nothing if checkpoint is being executed by non-bgwriter process */ if (!am_bg_writer) return; /* * Perform the usual bgwriter duties and take a nap, unless we're behind * schedule, in which case we just try to catch up as quickly as possible. */ if (!(flags & CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE) && !shutdown_requested && !ImmediateCheckpointRequested() && IsCheckpointOnSchedule(progress)) { if (got_SIGHUP) { got_SIGHUP = false; ProcessConfigFile(PGC_SIGHUP); /* update global shmem state for sync rep */ SyncRepUpdateSyncStandbysDefined(); } AbsorbFsyncRequests(); absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; BgBufferSync(); CheckArchiveTimeout(); BgWriterNap(); } else if (--absorb_counter <= 0) { /* * Absorb pending fsync requests after each WRITES_PER_ABSORB write * operations even when we don't sleep, to prevent overflow of the * fsync request queue. */ AbsorbFsyncRequests(); absorb_counter = WRITES_PER_ABSORB; } } /* * IsCheckpointOnSchedule -- are we on schedule to finish this checkpoint * in time? * * Compares the current progress against the time/segments elapsed since last * checkpoint, and returns true if the progress we've made this far is greater * than the elapsed time/segments. */ static bool IsCheckpointOnSchedule(double progress) { XLogRecPtr recptr; struct timeval now; double elapsed_xlogs, elapsed_time; Assert(ckpt_active); /* Scale progress according to checkpoint_completion_target. */ progress *= CheckPointCompletionTarget; /* * Check against the cached value first. Only do the more expensive * calculations once we reach the target previously calculated. Since * neither time or WAL insert pointer moves backwards, a freshly * calculated value can only be greater than or equal to the cached value. */ if (progress < ckpt_cached_elapsed) return false; /* * Check progress against WAL segments written and checkpoint_segments. * * We compare the current WAL insert location against the location * computed before calling CreateCheckPoint. The code in XLogInsert that * actually triggers a checkpoint when checkpoint_segments is exceeded * compares against RedoRecptr, so this is not completely accurate. * However, it's good enough for our purposes, we're only calculating an * estimate anyway. */ if (!RecoveryInProgress()) { recptr = GetInsertRecPtr(); elapsed_xlogs = (((double) (int32) (recptr.xlogid - ckpt_start_recptr.xlogid)) * XLogSegsPerFile + ((double) recptr.xrecoff - (double) ckpt_start_recptr.xrecoff) / XLogSegSize) / CheckPointSegments; if (progress < elapsed_xlogs) { ckpt_cached_elapsed = elapsed_xlogs; return false; } } /* * Check progress against time elapsed and checkpoint_timeout. */ gettimeofday(&now, NULL); elapsed_time = ((double) ((pg_time_t) now.tv_sec - ckpt_start_time) + now.tv_usec / 1000000.0) / CheckPointTimeout; if (progress < elapsed_time) { ckpt_cached_elapsed = elapsed_time; return false; } /* It looks like we're on schedule. */ return true; } /* -------------------------------- * signal handler routines * -------------------------------- */ /* * bg_quickdie() occurs when signalled SIGQUIT by the postmaster. * * Some backend has bought the farm, * so we need to stop what we're doing and exit. */ static void bg_quickdie(SIGNAL_ARGS) { PG_SETMASK(&BlockSig); /* * We DO NOT want to run proc_exit() callbacks -- we're here because * shared memory may be corrupted, so we don't want to try to clean up our * transaction. Just nail the windows shut and get out of town. Now that * there's an atexit callback to prevent third-party code from breaking * things by calling exit() directly, we have to reset the callbacks * explicitly to make this work as intended. */ on_exit_reset(); /* * Note we do exit(2) not exit(0). This is to force the postmaster into a * system reset cycle if some idiot DBA sends a manual SIGQUIT to a random * backend. This is necessary precisely because we don't clean up our * shared memory state. (The "dead man switch" mechanism in pmsignal.c * should ensure the postmaster sees this as a crash, too, but no harm in * being doubly sure.) */ exit(2); } /* SIGHUP: set flag to re-read config file at next convenient time */ static void BgSigHupHandler(SIGNAL_ARGS) { got_SIGHUP = true; } /* SIGINT: set flag to run a normal checkpoint right away */ static void ReqCheckpointHandler(SIGNAL_ARGS) { checkpoint_requested = true; } /* SIGUSR2: set flag to run a shutdown checkpoint and exit */ static void ReqShutdownHandler(SIGNAL_ARGS) { shutdown_requested = true; } /* -------------------------------- * communication with backends * -------------------------------- */ /* * BgWriterShmemSize * Compute space needed for bgwriter-related shared memory */ Size BgWriterShmemSize(void) { Size size; /* * Currently, the size of the requests[] array is arbitrarily set equal to * NBuffers. This may prove too large or small ... */ size = offsetof(BgWriterShmemStruct, requests); size = add_size(size, mul_size(NBuffers, sizeof(BgWriterRequest))); return size; } /* * BgWriterShmemInit * Allocate and initialize bgwriter-related shared memory */ void BgWriterShmemInit(void) { bool found; BgWriterShmem = (BgWriterShmemStruct *) ShmemInitStruct("Background Writer Data", BgWriterShmemSize(), &found); if (!found) { /* First time through, so initialize */ MemSet(BgWriterShmem, 0, sizeof(BgWriterShmemStruct)); SpinLockInit(&BgWriterShmem->ckpt_lck); BgWriterShmem->max_requests = NBuffers; } } /* * RequestCheckpoint * Called in backend processes to request a checkpoint * * flags is a bitwise OR of the following: * CHECKPOINT_IS_SHUTDOWN: checkpoint is for database shutdown. * CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY: checkpoint is for end of WAL recovery. * CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE: finish the checkpoint ASAP, * ignoring checkpoint_completion_target parameter. * CHECKPOINT_FORCE: force a checkpoint even if no XLOG activity has occured * since the last one (implied by CHECKPOINT_IS_SHUTDOWN or * CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY). * CHECKPOINT_WAIT: wait for completion before returning (otherwise, * just signal bgwriter to do it, and return). * CHECKPOINT_CAUSE_XLOG: checkpoint is requested due to xlog filling. * (This affects logging, and in particular enables CheckPointWarning.) */ void RequestCheckpoint(int flags) { /* use volatile pointer to prevent code rearrangement */ volatile BgWriterShmemStruct *bgs = BgWriterShmem; int ntries; int old_failed, old_started; /* * If in a standalone backend, just do it ourselves. */ if (!IsPostmasterEnvironment) { /* * There's no point in doing slow checkpoints in a standalone backend, * because there's no other backends the checkpoint could disrupt. */ CreateCheckPoint(flags | CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE); /* * After any checkpoint, close all smgr files. This is so we won't * hang onto smgr references to deleted files indefinitely. */ smgrcloseall(); return; } /* * Atomically set the request flags, and take a snapshot of the counters. * When we see ckpt_started > old_started, we know the flags we set here * have been seen by bgwriter. * * Note that we OR the flags with any existing flags, to avoid overriding * a "stronger" request by another backend. The flag senses must be * chosen to make this work! */ SpinLockAcquire(&bgs->ckpt_lck); old_failed = bgs->ckpt_failed; old_started = bgs->ckpt_started; bgs->ckpt_flags |= flags; SpinLockRelease(&bgs->ckpt_lck); /* * Send signal to request checkpoint. It's possible that the bgwriter * hasn't started yet, or is in process of restarting, so we will retry a * few times if needed. Also, if not told to wait for the checkpoint to * occur, we consider failure to send the signal to be nonfatal and merely * LOG it. */ for (ntries = 0;; ntries++) { if (BgWriterShmem->bgwriter_pid == 0) { if (ntries >= 20) /* max wait 2.0 sec */ { elog((flags & CHECKPOINT_WAIT) ? ERROR : LOG, "could not request checkpoint because bgwriter not running"); break; } } else if (kill(BgWriterShmem->bgwriter_pid, SIGINT) != 0) { if (ntries >= 20) /* max wait 2.0 sec */ { elog((flags & CHECKPOINT_WAIT) ? ERROR : LOG, "could not signal for checkpoint: %m"); break; } } else break; /* signal sent successfully */ CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(); pg_usleep(100000L); /* wait 0.1 sec, then retry */ } /* * If requested, wait for completion. We detect completion according to * the algorithm given above. */ if (flags & CHECKPOINT_WAIT) { int new_started, new_failed; /* Wait for a new checkpoint to start. */ for (;;) { SpinLockAcquire(&bgs->ckpt_lck); new_started = bgs->ckpt_started; SpinLockRelease(&bgs->ckpt_lck); if (new_started != old_started) break; CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(); pg_usleep(100000L); } /* * We are waiting for ckpt_done >= new_started, in a modulo sense. */ for (;;) { int new_done; SpinLockAcquire(&bgs->ckpt_lck); new_done = bgs->ckpt_done; new_failed = bgs->ckpt_failed; SpinLockRelease(&bgs->ckpt_lck); if (new_done - new_started >= 0) break; CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(); pg_usleep(100000L); } if (new_failed != old_failed) ereport(ERROR, (errmsg("checkpoint request failed"), errhint("Consult recent messages in the server log for details."))); } } /* * ForwardFsyncRequest * Forward a file-fsync request from a backend to the bgwriter * * Whenever a backend is compelled to write directly to a relation * (which should be seldom, if the bgwriter is getting its job done), * the backend calls this routine to pass over knowledge that the relation * is dirty and must be fsync'd before next checkpoint. We also use this * opportunity to count such writes for statistical purposes. * * segno specifies which segment (not block!) of the relation needs to be * fsync'd. (Since the valid range is much less than BlockNumber, we can * use high values for special flags; that's all internal to md.c, which * see for details.) * * To avoid holding the lock for longer than necessary, we normally write * to the requests[] queue without checking for duplicates. The bgwriter * will have to eliminate dups internally anyway. However, if we discover * that the queue is full, we make a pass over the entire queue to compact * it. This is somewhat expensive, but the alternative is for the backend * to perform its own fsync, which is far more expensive in practice. It * is theoretically possible a backend fsync might still be necessary, if * the queue is full and contains no duplicate entries. In that case, we * let the backend know by returning false. */ bool ForwardFsyncRequest(RelFileNodeBackend rnode, ForkNumber forknum, BlockNumber segno) { BgWriterRequest *request; if (!IsUnderPostmaster) return false; /* probably shouldn't even get here */ if (am_bg_writer) elog(ERROR, "ForwardFsyncRequest must not be called in bgwriter"); LWLockAcquire(BgWriterCommLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE); /* Count all backend writes regardless of if they fit in the queue */ BgWriterShmem->num_backend_writes++; /* * If the background writer isn't running or the request queue is full, * the backend will have to perform its own fsync request. But before * forcing that to happen, we can try to compact the background writer * request queue. */ if (BgWriterShmem->bgwriter_pid == 0 || (BgWriterShmem->num_requests >= BgWriterShmem->max_requests && !CompactBgwriterRequestQueue())) { /* * Count the subset of writes where backends have to do their own * fsync */ BgWriterShmem->num_backend_fsync++; LWLockRelease(BgWriterCommLock); return false; } request = &BgWriterShmem->requests[BgWriterShmem->num_requests++]; request->rnode = rnode; request->forknum = forknum; request->segno = segno; LWLockRelease(BgWriterCommLock); return true; } /* * CompactBgwriterRequestQueue * Remove duplicates from the request queue to avoid backend fsyncs. * * Although a full fsync request queue is not common, it can lead to severe * performance problems when it does happen. So far, this situation has * only been observed to occur when the system is under heavy write load, * and especially during the "sync" phase of a checkpoint. Without this * logic, each backend begins doing an fsync for every block written, which * gets very expensive and can slow down the whole system. * * Trying to do this every time the queue is full could lose if there * aren't any removable entries. But should be vanishingly rare in * practice: there's one queue entry per shared buffer. */ static bool CompactBgwriterRequestQueue() { struct BgWriterSlotMapping { BgWriterRequest request; int slot; }; int n, preserve_count; int num_skipped = 0; HASHCTL ctl; HTAB *htab; bool *skip_slot; /* must hold BgWriterCommLock in exclusive mode */ Assert(LWLockHeldByMe(BgWriterCommLock)); /* Initialize temporary hash table */ MemSet(&ctl, 0, sizeof(ctl)); ctl.keysize = sizeof(BgWriterRequest); ctl.entrysize = sizeof(struct BgWriterSlotMapping); ctl.hash = tag_hash; htab = hash_create("CompactBgwriterRequestQueue", BgWriterShmem->num_requests, &ctl, HASH_ELEM | HASH_FUNCTION); /* Initialize skip_slot array */ skip_slot = palloc0(sizeof(bool) * BgWriterShmem->num_requests); /* * The basic idea here is that a request can be skipped if it's followed * by a later, identical request. It might seem more sensible to work * backwards from the end of the queue and check whether a request is * *preceded* by an earlier, identical request, in the hopes of doing less * copying. But that might change the semantics, if there's an * intervening FORGET_RELATION_FSYNC or FORGET_DATABASE_FSYNC request, so * we do it this way. It would be possible to be even smarter if we made * the code below understand the specific semantics of such requests (it * could blow away preceding entries that would end up being canceled * anyhow), but it's not clear that the extra complexity would buy us * anything. */ for (n = 0; n < BgWriterShmem->num_requests; ++n) { BgWriterRequest *request; struct BgWriterSlotMapping *slotmap; bool found; request = &BgWriterShmem->requests[n]; slotmap = hash_search(htab, request, HASH_ENTER, &found); if (found) { skip_slot[slotmap->slot] = true; ++num_skipped; } slotmap->slot = n; } /* Done with the hash table. */ hash_destroy(htab); /* If no duplicates, we're out of luck. */ if (!num_skipped) { pfree(skip_slot); return false; } /* We found some duplicates; remove them. */ for (n = 0, preserve_count = 0; n < BgWriterShmem->num_requests; ++n) { if (skip_slot[n]) continue; BgWriterShmem->requests[preserve_count++] = BgWriterShmem->requests[n]; } ereport(DEBUG1, (errmsg("compacted fsync request queue from %d entries to %d entries", BgWriterShmem->num_requests, preserve_count))); BgWriterShmem->num_requests = preserve_count; /* Cleanup. */ pfree(skip_slot); return true; } /* * AbsorbFsyncRequests * Retrieve queued fsync requests and pass them to local smgr. * * This is exported because it must be called during CreateCheckPoint; * we have to be sure we have accepted all pending requests just before * we start fsync'ing. Since CreateCheckPoint sometimes runs in * non-bgwriter processes, do nothing if not bgwriter. */ void AbsorbFsyncRequests(void) { BgWriterRequest *requests = NULL; BgWriterRequest *request; int n; if (!am_bg_writer) return; /* * We have to PANIC if we fail to absorb all the pending requests (eg, * because our hashtable runs out of memory). This is because the system * cannot run safely if we are unable to fsync what we have been told to * fsync. Fortunately, the hashtable is so small that the problem is * quite unlikely to arise in practice. */ START_CRIT_SECTION(); /* * We try to avoid holding the lock for a long time by copying the request * array. */ LWLockAcquire(BgWriterCommLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE); /* Transfer write count into pending pgstats message */ BgWriterStats.m_buf_written_backend += BgWriterShmem->num_backend_writes; BgWriterStats.m_buf_fsync_backend += BgWriterShmem->num_backend_fsync; BgWriterShmem->num_backend_writes = 0; BgWriterShmem->num_backend_fsync = 0; n = BgWriterShmem->num_requests; if (n > 0) { requests = (BgWriterRequest *) palloc(n * sizeof(BgWriterRequest)); memcpy(requests, BgWriterShmem->requests, n * sizeof(BgWriterRequest)); } BgWriterShmem->num_requests = 0; LWLockRelease(BgWriterCommLock); for (request = requests; n > 0; request++, n--) RememberFsyncRequest(request->rnode, request->forknum, request->segno); if (requests) pfree(requests); END_CRIT_SECTION(); }