In commit 7a4fbb55b0 (MDEV-25105)
the innochecksum option --write (-w) was removed altogether.
It should have been made a Boolean option, so that old data files
may be converted to a format that is compatible with
innodb_checksum_algorithm=strict_crc32 by executing the following:
innochecksum -n -w ibdata* */*.ibd
It would be better to use an older-version innochecksum
for such a conversion, so that page checksums will be validated
before updating the checksum.
It never was possible for innochecksum to convert files to the
innodb_checksum_algorithm=full_crc32 format that is the default
for new InnoDB data files.
Historically, InnoDB supported a buggy page checksum algorithm that did not
compute a checksum over the full page. Later, well before MySQL 4.1
introduced .ibd files and the innodb_file_per_table option, the algorithm
was corrected and the first 4 bytes of each page were redefined to be
a checksum.
The original checksum was so slow that an option to disable page checksum
was introduced for benchmarketing purposes.
The Intel Nehalem microarchitecture introduced the SSE4.2 instruction set
extension, which includes instructions for faster computation of CRC-32C.
In MySQL 5.6 (and MariaDB 10.0), innodb_checksum_algorithm=crc32 was
implemented to make of that. As that option was changed to be the default
in MySQL 5.7, a bug was found on big-endian platforms and some work-around
code was added to weaken that checksum further. MariaDB disables that
work-around by default since MDEV-17958.
Later, SIMD-accelerated CRC-32C has been implemented in MariaDB for POWER
and ARM and also for IA-32/AMD64, making use of carry-less multiplication
where available.
Long story short, innodb_checksum_algorithm=crc32 is faster and more secure
than the pre-MySQL 5.6 checksum, called innodb_checksum_algorithm=innodb.
It should have removed any need to use innodb_checksum_algorithm=none.
The setting innodb_checksum_algorithm=crc32 is the default in
MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB Server 10.2, 10.3, 10.4. In MariaDB 10.5,
MDEV-19534 made innodb_checksum_algorithm=full_crc32 the default.
It is even faster and more secure.
The default settings in MariaDB do allow old data files to be read,
no matter if a worse checksum algorithm had been used.
(Unfortunately, before innodb_checksum_algorithm=full_crc32,
the data files did not identify which checksum algorithm is being used.)
The non-default settings innodb_checksum_algorithm=strict_crc32 or
innodb_checksum_algorithm=strict_full_crc32 would only allow CRC-32C
checksums. The incompatibility with old data files is why they are
not the default.
The newest server not to support innodb_checksum_algorithm=crc32
were MySQL 5.5 and MariaDB 5.5. Both have reached their end of life.
A valid reason for using innodb_checksum_algorithm=innodb could have
been the ability to downgrade. If it is really needed, data files
can be converted with an older version of the innochecksum utility.
Because there is no good reason to allow data files to be written
with insecure checksums, we will reject those option values:
innodb_checksum_algorithm=none
innodb_checksum_algorithm=innodb
innodb_checksum_algorithm=strict_none
innodb_checksum_algorithm=strict_innodb
Furthermore, the following innochecksum options will be removed,
because only strict crc32 will be supported:
innochecksum --strict-check=crc32
innochecksum -C crc32
innochecksum --write=crc32
innochecksum -w crc32
If a user wishes to convert a data file to use a different checksum
(so that it might be used with the no-longer-supported
MySQL 5.5 or MariaDB 5.5, which do not support IMPORT TABLESPACE
nor system tablespace format changes that were made in MariaDB 10.3),
then the innochecksum tool from MariaDB 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 or
MySQL 5.7 can be used.
Reviewed by: Thirunarayanan Balathandayuthapani
MariaDB data-at-rest encryption (innodb_encrypt_tables)
had repurposed the same unused data field that was repurposed
in MySQL 5.7 (and MariaDB 10.2) for the Split Sequence Number (SSN)
field of SPATIAL INDEX. Because of this, MariaDB was unable to
support encryption on SPATIAL INDEX pages.
Furthermore, InnoDB page checksums skipped some bytes, and there
are multiple variations and checksum algorithms. By default,
InnoDB accepts all variations of all algorithms that ever existed.
This unnecessarily weakens the page checksums.
We hereby introduce two more innodb_checksum_algorithm variants
(full_crc32, strict_full_crc32) that are special in a way:
When either setting is active, newly created data files will
carry a flag (fil_space_t::full_crc32()) that indicates that
all pages of the file will use a full CRC-32C checksum over the
entire page contents (excluding the bytes where the checksum
is stored, at the very end of the page). Such files will always
use that checksum, no matter what the parameter
innodb_checksum_algorithm is assigned to.
For old files, the old checksum algorithms will continue to be
used. The value strict_full_crc32 will be equivalent to strict_crc32
and the value full_crc32 will be equivalent to crc32.
ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED tables will only use the old format.
These tables do not support new features, such as larger
innodb_page_size or instant ADD/DROP COLUMN. They may be
deprecated in the future. We do not want an unnecessary
file format change for them.
The new full_crc32() format also cleans up the MariaDB tablespace
flags. We will reserve flags to store the page_compressed
compression algorithm, and to store the compressed payload length,
so that checksum can be computed over the compressed (and
possibly encrypted) stream and can be validated without
decrypting or decompressing the page.
In the full_crc32 format, there no longer are separate before-encryption
and after-encryption checksums for pages. The single checksum is
computed on the page contents that is written to the file.
We do not make the new algorithm the default for two reasons.
First, MariaDB 10.4.2 was a beta release, and the default values
of parameters should not change after beta. Second, we did not
yet implement the full_crc32 format for page_compressed pages.
This will be fixed in MDEV-18644.
This is joint work with Marko Mäkelä.
As noted in MDEV-11947, we should disable the InnoDB doublewrite buffer
during the tests, because when rewriting page checksums, innochecksum
would skip the pages that are in the doublewrite buffer area. Because
the doublewrite buffer is emptied on server startup and not shutdown,
we should initially start with the doublewrite buffer disabled, so that
there will be no warning messages for wrong page checksums in the
doublewrite buffer.
Also, correct the obvious typo where restart_options should have been
$restart_parameters, so that InnoDB is actually verifying that the
checksums were rewritten.
Contains also
MDEV-10547: Test multi_update_innodb fails with InnoDB 5.7
The failure happened because 5.7 has changed the signature of
the bool handler::primary_key_is_clustered() const
virtual function ("const" was added). InnoDB was using the old
signature which caused the function not to be used.
MDEV-10550: Parallel replication lock waits/deadlock handling does not work with InnoDB 5.7
Fixed mutexing problem on lock_trx_handle_wait. Note that
rpl_parallel and rpl_optimistic_parallel tests still
fail.
MDEV-10156 : Group commit tests fail on 10.2 InnoDB (branch bb-10.2-jan)
Reason: incorrect merge
MDEV-10550: Parallel replication can't sync with master in InnoDB 5.7 (branch bb-10.2-jan)
Reason: incorrect merge
