This locking has been missing from the beginning of annex.pidlock.
It used to be possble, when two threads are doing conflicting things,
for both to run at the same time despite using locking. Seems likely
that nothing actually had a problem, but it was possible, and this
eliminates that possible source of failure.
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Seem there are several races that happen when 2 threads run PidLock.tryLock
at the same time. One involves checkSaneLock of the side lock file, which may
be deleted by another process that is dropping the lock, causing checkSaneLock
to fail. And even with the deletion disabled, it can still fail, Probably due
to linkToLock failing when a second thread overwrites the lock file.
The same can happen when 2 processes do, but then one process just fails
to take the lock, which is fine. But with 2 threads, some actions where failing
even though the process as a whole had the pid lock held.
Utility.LockPool.PidLock already maintains a STM lock, and since it uses
LockShared, 2 threads can hold the pidlock at the same time, and when
the first thread drops the lock, it will remain held by the second
thread, and so the pid lock file should not get deleted until the last
thread to hold it drops the lock. Which is the right behavior, and why a
LockShared STM lock is used in the first place.
The problem is that each time it takes the STM lock, it then also calls
PidLock.tryLock. So that was getting called repeatedly and concurrently.
Fixed by noticing when the shared lock is already held, and stop calling
PidLock.tryLock again, just use the pid lock that already exists then.
Also, LockFile.PidLock.tryLock was deleting the pid lock when it failed
to take the lock, which was entirely wrong. It should only drop the side
lock.
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It ought to exist, since linkToLock has just created it. However,
Lustre seems to have a rather probabilisitic view of the contents of a
directory, so catching the error if it somehow does not exist and
running the same code path that would be ran if linkToLock failed
might avoid this fun Lustre failure.
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This is to track down what file in .git/annex/ is being written to via a
temp file when the repository is read-only.
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nukeFile replaced with removeWhenExistsWith removeLink, which allows
using RawFilePath. Utility.Directory cannot use RawFilePath since setup
does not depend on posix.
This commit was sponsored by Graham Spencer on Patreon.
Fixes reversion in 8.20200617 that made annex.pidlock being enabled result
in some commands stalling, particularly those needing to autoinit.
Renamed runsGitAnnexChildProcess to make clearer where it should be
used.
Arguably, it would be better to have a way to make any process git-annex
runs have the env var set. But then it would need to take the pid lock
when running any and all processes, and that would be a problem when
git-annex runs two processes concurrently. So, I'm left doing it ad-hoc
in places where git-annex really does run a child process, directly
or indirectly via a particular git command.
That made eg git-annex get of an unlocked file hang until the
annex.pidlocktimeout and then fail.
This fix should be fully thread safe no matter what else git-annex is
doing.
Only using runsGitAnnexChildProcess in the one place it's known to be a
problem. Could audit for all places where git-annex runs itself as a child
and add it to all of them, later.
Audited for openFile and openFd, and this fixes all the ones I found
where an async exception could prevent the file getting closed.
Except for the lock pool, which is a whole other can of worms.
Cryptonite is faster and allocates less, and I want to get rid of
MissingH use.
Note that the new dependency on memory is free; it's a dependency of
cryptonite.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Probing for hard link support in the pid locking code is redundant since
git-annex init already probes that. But, it didn't seem worth threading
that data through; the pid locking code runs at most once per git-annex
process, and only on unusual filesystems. Optimising a single hard link
and unlink isn't worth it.
This commit was sponsored by Francois Marier on Patreon.
ghc 8 added backtraces on uncaught errors. This is great, but git-annex was
using error in many places for a error message targeted at the user, in
some known problem case. A backtrace only confuses such a message, so omit it.
Notably, commands like git annex drop that failed due to eg, numcopies,
used to use error, so had a backtrace.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
It started exporting a isSymbolicLink which supports windows. But,
git-annex does no use symlinks on windows yet and this conflicts with the
function by the same name from unix-compat, so hide it.
Caused by AMP.. Since I've finally upgraded my dev laptop to 7.10,
I may start missing imports that are not needed with it but are with older
versions..
There's a potential race, but it's detected and just results in the other
process failing to take the side lock, so possibly retrying one second
later on. The race window is quite narrow so the extra delay is minor.
Left the side lock files mode 666 because an interruption can leave a side
lock file created by another user for a shared repository. When this
happens, the non-owning user can't delete it (+t) but can still lock it,
and so the code falls back to acting as it did before this commit.
This is less portable, since currently sidelocks rely on /dev/shm.
But, I've seen crazy lustre inconsistencies that make me not trust the
link() method at all, so what can you do.
I have a strace taken on a lustre filesystem on which link() returned 0,
but didn't actually succeed, since the file already existed.
One of the linux man pages recommended using link followed by checking like
this. I was reading it yesterday, but cannot find it now.
