Previously, only backends, autovacuum workers, and background workers
had an entry in the PMChildFlags array. With this commit, all
postmaster child processes, including all the aux processes, have an
entry. Dead-end backends still don't get an entry, though, and other
processes that don't touch shared memory will never mark their
PMChildFlags entry as active.
We now maintain separate freelists for different kinds of child
processes. That ensures that there are always slots available for
autovacuum and background workers. Previously, pre-authentication
backends could prevent autovacuum or background workers from starting
up, by using up all the slots.
The code to manage the slots in the postmaster process is in a new
pmchild.c source file. Because postmaster.c is just so large.
Assigning pmsignal slot numbers is now pmchild.c's responsibility.
This replaces the PMChildInUse array in pmsignal.c.
Some of the comments in postmaster.c still talked about the "stats
process", but that was removed in commit 5891c7a8ed. Fix those while
we're at it.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a102f15f-eac4-4ff2-af02-f9ff209ec66f@iki.fi
Move responsibility of generating the cancel key to the backend
process. The cancel key is now generated after forking, and the
backend advertises it in the ProcSignal array. When a cancel request
arrives, the backend handling it scans the ProcSignal array to find
the target pid and cancel key. This is similar to how this previously
worked in the EXEC_BACKEND case with the ShmemBackendArray, just
reusing the ProcSignal array.
One notable change is that we no longer generate cancellation keys for
non-backend processes. We generated them before just to prevent a
malicious user from canceling them; the keys for non-backend processes
were never actually given to anyone. There is now an explicit flag
indicating whether a process has a valid key or not.
I wrote this originally in preparation for supporting longer cancel
keys, but it's a nice cleanup on its own.
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/508d0505-8b7a-4864-a681-e7e5edfe32aa@iki.fi
Commit 86db52a506 changed the locking of injection points to use only
atomic ops and spinlocks, to make it possible to define injection
points in processes that don't have a PGPROC entry (yet). However, it
didn't work in EXEC_BACKEND mode, because the pointer to shared memory
area was not initialized until the process "attaches" to all the
shared memory structs. To fix, pass the pointer to the child process
along with other global variables that need to be set up early.
Backpatch-through: 17
This fixes warnings from -Wmissing-variable-declarations (not yet part
of the standard warning options) under EXEC_BACKEND. The
NON_EXEC_STATIC variables need a suitable declaration in a header file
under EXEC_BACKEND.
Also fix the inconsistent application of the volatile qualifier for
PMSignalState, which was revealed by this change.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e0a62134-83da-4ba4-8cdb-ceb0111c95ce@eisentraut.org
We have in launch_backend.c:
/*
* The following need to be available to the save/restore_backend_variables
* functions. They are marked NON_EXEC_STATIC in their home modules.
*/
extern slock_t *ShmemLock;
extern slock_t *ProcStructLock;
extern PGPROC *AuxiliaryProcs;
extern PMSignalData *PMSignalState;
extern pg_time_t first_syslogger_file_time;
extern struct bkend *ShmemBackendArray;
extern bool redirection_done;
That comment is not completely true: ShmemLock, ShmemBackendArray, and
redirection_done are not in fact NON_EXEC_STATIC. ShmemLock once was,
but was then needed elsewhere. ShmemBackendArray was static inside
postmaster.c before launch_backend.c was created. redirection_done
was never static.
This patch moves the declaration of ShmemLock and redirection_done to
a header file.
ShmemBackendArray gets a NON_EXEC_STATIC. This doesn't make a
difference, since it only exists if EXEC_BACKEND anyway, but it makes
it consistent.
After that, the comment is now correct.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e0a62134-83da-4ba4-8cdb-ceb0111c95ce@eisentraut.org
To avoid the compiler warnings:
launch_backend.c:211:39: warning: comparison of constant 16 with expression of type 'BackendType' (aka 'enum BackendType') is always true [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
launch_backend.c:233:39: warning: comparison of constant 16 with expression of type 'BackendType' (aka 'enum BackendType') is always true [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
The point of the assertions was to fail more explicitly if someone
adds a new BackendType to the end of the enum, but forgets to add it
to the child_process_kinds array. It was a pretty weak assertion to
begin with, because it wouldn't catch if you added a new BackendType
in the middle of the enum. So let's just remove it.
Per buildfarm member ayu and a few others, spotted by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4119680.1710913067@sss.pgh.pa.us
Introduce new postmaster_child_launch() function that deals with the
differences in EXEC_BACKEND mode.
Refactor the mechanism of passing information from the parent to child
process. Instead of using different command-line arguments when
launching the child process in EXEC_BACKEND mode, pass a
variable-length blob of startup data along with all the global
variables. The contents of that blob depend on the kind of child
process being launched. In !EXEC_BACKEND mode, we use the same blob,
but it's simply inherited from the parent to child process.
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7a59b073-5b5b-151e-7ed3-8b01ff7ce9ef@iki.fi
This just moves the functions, with no other changes, to make the next
commits smaller and easier to review. The moved functions are related
to launching postmaster child processes in EXEC_BACKEND mode.
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7a59b073-5b5b-151e-7ed3-8b01ff7ce9ef@iki.fi
