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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-5623:
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@Stack, thanks for the unit test. I'll test the the unit test with and without
the patch today. Normally, it is very easy to replicate this bug. I just set up
a 4 node cluster with Hadoop-1.0.1, and run ycsb with -load -threads 30.
@Lars
Yes, it is the same with HBASE-5336. I had searched for the exception but did
not find that issue. Anyway I'll close that one as duplicate.
bq. If we want maximum concurrency here, we need to do the same we do for
writer.sync(). I.e. try without lock held, if failing get the lock and retry,
along with SequenceFileLogWriter.getLength() catching Exception and retrow as
IOException.
Yes we can do that, but we cannot do this double-checking for the
logSyncerThread.hlogFlush(this.writer) since it is not idempotent, so in any
case we should be holding the updateLock, no? From my understanding you are
suggesting that we sync on the hlogFlush, and do the retry mechanism in
writer.sync and getLength(), catching all the exceptions in the first try,
right?
> Race condition when rolling the HLog and hlogFlush
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>
> Key: HBASE-5623
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5623
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: wal
> Affects Versions: 0.94.0
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: Enis Soztutar
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: 5623v2.txt, HBASE-5623_v0.patch
>
>
> When doing a ycsb test with a large number of handlers
> (regionserver.handler.count=60), I get the following exceptions:
> {code}
> Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: java.io.IOException:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Writer.getLength(SequenceFile.java:1099)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.SequenceFileLogWriter.getLength(SequenceFileLogWriter.java:314)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.HLog.syncer(HLog.java:1291)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.HLog.sync(HLog.java:1388)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.doMiniBatchPut(HRegion.java:2192)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.put(HRegion.java:1985)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.multi(HRegionServer.java:3400)
> at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor17.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.WritableRpcEngine$Server.call(WritableRpcEngine.java:366)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseServer$Handler.run(HBaseServer.java:1351)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseClient.call(HBaseClient.java:920)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.WritableRpcEngine$Invoker.invoke(WritableRpcEngine.java:152)
> at $Proxy1.multi(Unknown Source)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation$3$1.call(HConnectionManager.java:1691)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation$3$1.call(HConnectionManager.java:1689)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ServerCallable.withoutRetries(ServerCallable.java:214)
> {code}
> and
> {code}
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Writer.checkAndWriteSync(SequenceFile.java:1026)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Writer.append(SequenceFile.java:1068)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Writer.append(SequenceFile.java:1035)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.SequenceFileLogWriter.append(SequenceFileLogWriter.java:279)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.HLog$LogSyncer.hlogFlush(HLog.java:1237)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.HLog.syncer(HLog.java:1271)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.HLog.sync(HLog.java:1391)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.doMiniBatchPut(HRegion.java:2192)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.put(HRegion.java:1985)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.multi(HRegionServer.java:3400)
> at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor33.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.WritableRpcEngine$Server.call(WritableRpcEngine.java:366)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseServer$Handler.run(HBaseServer.java:1351)
> {code}
> It seems the root cause of the issue is that we open a new log writer and
> close the old one at HLog#rollWriter() holding the updateLock, but the other
> threads doing syncer() calls
> {code}
> logSyncerThread.hlogFlush(this.writer);
> {code}
> without holding the updateLock. LogSyncer only synchronizes against
> concurrent appends and flush(), but not on the passed writer, which can be
> closed already by rollWriter(). In this case, since
> SequenceFile#Writer.close() sets it's out field as null, we get the NPE.
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