/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * walwriter.c * * The WAL writer background process is new as of Postgres 8.3. It attempts * to keep regular backends from having to write out (and fsync) WAL pages. * Also, it guarantees that transaction commit records that weren't synced * to disk immediately upon commit (ie, were "asynchronously committed") * will reach disk within a knowable time --- which, as it happens, is at * most three times the wal_writer_delay cycle time. * * Note that as with the bgwriter for shared buffers, regular backends are * still empowered to issue WAL writes and fsyncs when the walwriter doesn't * keep up. This means that the WALWriter is not an essential process and * can shutdown quickly when requested. * * Because the walwriter's cycle is directly linked to the maximum delay * before async-commit transactions are guaranteed committed, it's probably * unwise to load additional functionality onto it. For instance, if you've * got a yen to create xlog segments further in advance, that'd be better done * in bgwriter than in walwriter. * * The walwriter is started by the postmaster as soon as the startup subprocess * finishes. It remains alive until the postmaster commands it to terminate. * Normal termination is by SIGTERM, which instructs the walwriter to exit(0). * Emergency termination is by SIGQUIT; like any backend, the walwriter will * simply abort and exit on SIGQUIT. * * If the walwriter 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. * * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2023, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * * * IDENTIFICATION * src/backend/postmaster/walwriter.c * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #include "postgres.h" #include #include #include "access/xlog.h" #include "libpq/pqsignal.h" #include "miscadmin.h" #include "pgstat.h" #include "postmaster/interrupt.h" #include "postmaster/walwriter.h" #include "storage/bufmgr.h" #include "storage/condition_variable.h" #include "storage/fd.h" #include "storage/ipc.h" #include "storage/lwlock.h" #include "storage/proc.h" #include "storage/procsignal.h" #include "storage/smgr.h" #include "utils/guc.h" #include "utils/hsearch.h" #include "utils/memutils.h" #include "utils/resowner.h" /* * GUC parameters */ int WalWriterDelay = 200; int WalWriterFlushAfter = DEFAULT_WAL_WRITER_FLUSH_AFTER; /* * Number of do-nothing loops before lengthening the delay time, and the * multiplier to apply to WalWriterDelay when we do decide to hibernate. * (Perhaps these need to be configurable?) */ #define LOOPS_UNTIL_HIBERNATE 50 #define HIBERNATE_FACTOR 25 /* Prototypes for private functions */ static void HandleWalWriterInterrupts(void); /* * Main entry point for walwriter process * * This is invoked from AuxiliaryProcessMain, which has already created the * basic execution environment, but not enabled signals yet. */ void WalWriterMain(void) { sigjmp_buf local_sigjmp_buf; MemoryContext walwriter_context; int left_till_hibernate; bool hibernating; /* * Properly accept or ignore signals the postmaster might send us * * We have no particular use for SIGINT at the moment, but seems * reasonable to treat like SIGTERM. */ pqsignal(SIGHUP, SignalHandlerForConfigReload); pqsignal(SIGINT, SignalHandlerForShutdownRequest); pqsignal(SIGTERM, SignalHandlerForShutdownRequest); /* SIGQUIT handler was already set up by InitPostmasterChild */ pqsignal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN); pqsignal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); pqsignal(SIGUSR1, procsignal_sigusr1_handler); pqsignal(SIGUSR2, SIG_IGN); /* not used */ /* * Reset some signals that are accepted by postmaster but not here */ pqsignal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL); /* * 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. */ walwriter_context = AllocSetContextCreate(TopMemoryContext, "Wal Writer", ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES); MemoryContextSwitchTo(walwriter_context); /* * If an exception is encountered, processing resumes here. * * You might wonder why this isn't coded as an infinite loop around a * PG_TRY construct. The reason is that this is the bottom of the * exception stack, and so with PG_TRY there would be no exception handler * in force at all during the CATCH part. By leaving the outermost setjmp * always active, we have at least some chance of recovering from an error * during error recovery. (If we get into an infinite loop thereby, it * will soon be stopped by overflow of elog.c's internal state stack.) * * Note that we use sigsetjmp(..., 1), so that the prevailing signal mask * (to wit, BlockSig) will be restored when longjmp'ing to here. Thus, * signals other than SIGQUIT will be blocked until we complete error * recovery. It might seem that this policy makes the HOLD_INTERRUPTS() * call redundant, but it is not since InterruptPending might be set * already. */ 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 walwriter, but we do have LWLocks, and perhaps buffers? */ LWLockReleaseAll(); ConditionVariableCancelSleep(); pgstat_report_wait_end(); UnlockBuffers(); ReleaseAuxProcessResources(false); AtEOXact_Buffers(false); AtEOXact_SMgr(); AtEOXact_Files(false); AtEOXact_HashTables(false); /* * Now return to normal top-level context and clear ErrorContext for * next time. */ MemoryContextSwitchTo(walwriter_context); FlushErrorState(); /* Flush any leaked data in the top-level context */ MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren(walwriter_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) */ sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &UnBlockSig, NULL); /* * Reset hibernation state after any error. */ left_till_hibernate = LOOPS_UNTIL_HIBERNATE; hibernating = false; SetWalWriterSleeping(false); /* * Advertise our latch that backends can use to wake us up while we're * sleeping. */ ProcGlobal->walwriterLatch = &MyProc->procLatch; /* * Loop forever */ for (;;) { long cur_timeout; /* * Advertise whether we might hibernate in this cycle. We do this * before resetting the latch to ensure that any async commits will * see the flag set if they might possibly need to wake us up, and * that we won't miss any signal they send us. (If we discover work * to do in the last cycle before we would hibernate, the global flag * will be set unnecessarily, but little harm is done.) But avoid * touching the global flag if it doesn't need to change. */ if (hibernating != (left_till_hibernate <= 1)) { hibernating = (left_till_hibernate <= 1); SetWalWriterSleeping(hibernating); } /* Clear any already-pending wakeups */ ResetLatch(MyLatch); /* Process any signals received recently */ HandleWalWriterInterrupts(); /* * Do what we're here for; then, if XLogBackgroundFlush() found useful * work to do, reset hibernation counter. */ if (XLogBackgroundFlush()) left_till_hibernate = LOOPS_UNTIL_HIBERNATE; else if (left_till_hibernate > 0) left_till_hibernate--; /* report pending statistics to the cumulative stats system */ pgstat_report_wal(false); /* * Sleep until we are signaled or WalWriterDelay has elapsed. If we * haven't done anything useful for quite some time, lengthen the * sleep time so as to reduce the server's idle power consumption. */ if (left_till_hibernate > 0) cur_timeout = WalWriterDelay; /* in ms */ else cur_timeout = WalWriterDelay * HIBERNATE_FACTOR; (void) WaitLatch(MyLatch, WL_LATCH_SET | WL_TIMEOUT | WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH, cur_timeout, WAIT_EVENT_WAL_WRITER_MAIN); } } /* * Interrupt handler for main loops of WAL writer process. */ static void HandleWalWriterInterrupts(void) { if (ProcSignalBarrierPending) ProcessProcSignalBarrier(); if (ConfigReloadPending) { ConfigReloadPending = false; ProcessConfigFile(PGC_SIGHUP); } if (ShutdownRequestPending) proc_exit(0); /* Perform logging of memory contexts of this process */ if (LogMemoryContextPending) ProcessLogMemoryContextInterrupt(); }