Hi Andres, 12.04.2024 07:41, Andres Freund wrote:
FWIW, I just reproduced the scenario with signals. I added tracking of the total time actually slept and lost to SpinDelayStatus, and added a function to trigger a wait on a spinlock. To wait less, I set max_standby_streaming_delay=0.1, but that's just for easier testing in isolation. In reality that could have been reached before the spinlock is even acquired. On a standby, while a recovery conflict is happening: PANIC: XX000: stuck spinlock detected at crashme, path/to/file:line, after 4.38s, lost 127.96s So right now it's really not hard to trigger the stuck-spinlock logic completely spuriously. This doesn't just happen with hot standby, there are plenty other sources of lots of signals being sent.
I managed to trigger that logic when trying to construct a reproducer for bug #18426. With the following delays added: --- a/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c +++ b/src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c @@ -1776,6 +1776,7 @@ retry: */ if (BUF_STATE_GET_REFCOUNT(buf_state) != 0) { +pg_usleep(300000L); UnlockBufHdr(buf, buf_state); LWLockRelease(oldPartitionLock); /* safety check: should definitely not be our *own* pin */ @@ -5549,6 +5550,7 @@ TerminateBufferIO(BufferDesc *buf, bool clear_dirty, uint32 set_flag_bits, Assert(buf_state & BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS); +pg_usleep(300); buf_state &= ~(BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS | BM_IO_ERROR); if (clear_dirty && !(buf_state & BM_JUST_DIRTIED)) buf_state &= ~(BM_DIRTY | BM_CHECKPOINT_NEEDED); and /tmp/temp.config: bgwriter_delay = 10 TEMP_CONFIG=/tmp/temp.config make -s check -C src/test/recovery PROVE_TESTS="t/032*" fails for me on iterations 22, 23, 37: 2024-04-12 05:00:17.981 UTC [762336] PANIC: stuck spinlock detected at WaitBufHdrUnlocked, bufmgr.c:5726 I haven't investigated this case yet. Best regards, Alexander