pgsql: lwlock: Fix, currently harmless, bug in LWLockWakeup()

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: lwlock: Fix, currently harmless, bug in LWLockWakeup()
Date: 2025-11-24 23:12:12
Message-ID: E1vNfjA-001FHC-0n@gemulon.postgresql.org
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lwlock: Fix, currently harmless, bug in LWLockWakeup()

Accidentally the code in LWLockWakeup() checked the list of to-be-woken up
processes to see if LW_FLAG_HAS_WAITERS should be unset. That means that
HAS_WAITERS would not get unset immediately, but only during the next,
unnecessary, call to LWLockWakeup().

Luckily, as the code stands, this is just a small efficiency issue.

However, if there were (as in a patch of mine) a case in which LWLockWakeup()
would not find any backend to wake, despite the wait list not being empty,
we'd wrongly unset LW_FLAG_HAS_WAITERS, leading to potentially hanging.

While the consequences in the backbranches are limited, the code as-is
confusing, and it is possible that there are workloads where the additional
wait list lock acquisitions hurt, therefore backpatch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
Backpatch-through: 14

Branch
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REL_14_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/332693e7596909516849e9d7622fbca21b575f28

Modified Files
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src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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