Re: ERROR: invalid spinlock number: 0

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ERROR: invalid spinlock number: 0
Date: 2021-02-17 04:52:09
Message-ID: YCyg+XrLMcYWpNOT@paquier.xyz
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:47:52PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On 2021/02/16 15:50, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> + /*
>> + * Read "writtenUpto" without holding a spinlock. So it may not be
>> + * consistent with other WAL receiver's shared variables protected by a
>> + * spinlock. This is OK because that variable is used only for
>> + * informational purpose and should not be used for data integrity checks.
>> + */
>> What about the following?
>> "Read "writtenUpto" without holding a spinlock. Note that it may not
>> be consistent with the other shared variables of the WAL receiver
>> protected by a spinlock, but this should not be used for data
>> integrity checks."
>
> Sounds good. Attached is the updated version of the patch.

Thanks, looks good to me.

>> I agree that what has been done with MyProc->waitStart in 46d6e5f is
>> not safe, and that initialization should happen once at postmaster
>> startup, with a write(0) when starting the backend. There are two of
>> them in proc.c, one in twophase.c. Do you mind if I add an open item
>> for this one?
>
> Yeah, please feel free to do that! BTW, I already posted the patch
> addressing that issue, at [1].

Okay, item added with a link to the original thread.
--
Michael

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