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revno: 2617.23.18
committer: Davi Arnaut <Davi.Arnaut@Sun.COM>
branch nick: 4284-6.0
timestamp: Mon 2009-03-02 18:18:26 -0300
message:
Bug#989: If DROP TABLE while there's an active transaction, wrong binlog order
WL#4284: Transactional DDL locking

This is a prerequisite patch:

These changes are intended to split lock requests from granted
locks and to allow the memory and lifetime of granted locks to
be managed within the MDL subsystem. Furthermore, tickets can
now be shared and therefore are used to satisfy multiple lock
requests, but only shared locks can be recursive.

The problem is that the MDL subsystem morphs lock requests into
granted locks locks but does not manage the memory and lifetime
of lock requests, and hence, does not manage the memory of
granted locks either. This can be problematic because it puts the
burden of tracking references on the users of the subsystem and
it can't be easily done in transactional contexts where the locks
have to be kept around for the duration of a transaction.

Another issue is that recursive locks (when the context trying to
acquire a lock already holds a lock on the same object) requires
that each time the lock is granted, a unique lock request/granted
lock structure structure must be kept around until the lock is
released. This can lead to memory leaks in transactional contexts
as locks taken during the transaction should only be released at
the end of the transaction. This also leads to unnecessary wake
ups (broadcasts) in the MDL subsystem if the context still holds
a equivalent of the lock being released.

These issues are exacerbated due to the fact that WL#4284 low-level
design says that the implementation should "2) Store metadata locks
in transaction memory root, rather than statement memory root" but
this is not possible because a memory root, as implemented in mysys,
requires all objects allocated from it to be freed all at once.

This patch combines review input and significant code contributions
from Konstantin Osipov (kostja) and Dmitri Lenev (dlenev).


mysql-test/r/mdl_sync.result:
  Add test case result.
mysql-test/t/mdl_sync.test:
  Add test case for shared lock upgrade case.
sql/event_db_repository.cc:
  Rename mdl_alloc_lock to mdl_request_alloc.
sql/ha_ndbcluster_binlog.cc:
  Use new function names to initialize MDL lock requests.
sql/lock.cc:
  Rename MDL functions.
sql/log_event.cc:
  The MDL request now holds the table and database name data (MDL_KEY).
sql/mdl.cc:
  Move the MDL key to the MDL_LOCK structure in order to make the
  object suitable for allocation from a fixed-size allocator. This
  allows the simplification of the lists in the MDL_LOCK object,
  which now are just two, one for granted tickets and other for
  waiting (upgraders) tickets.
  
  Recursive requests for a shared lock on the same object can now
  be granted using the same lock ticket. This schema is only used
  for shared locks because that the only case that matters. This
  is used to avoid waste of resources in case a context (connection)
  already holds a shared lock on a object.
sql/mdl.h:
  Introduce a metadata lock object key which is used  to uniquely
  identify lock objects.
  
  Separate the structure used to represent pending lock requests
  from the structure used to represent granted metadata locks.
  
  Rename functions used to manipulate locks requests in order to
  have a more consistent function naming schema.
sql/sp_head.cc:
  Rename mdl_alloc_lock to mdl_request_alloc.
sql/sql_acl.cc:
  Rename alloc_mdl_locks to alloc_mdl_requests.
sql/sql_base.cc:
  Various changes to accommodate that lock requests are separated
  from lock tickets (granted locks).
sql/sql_class.h:
  Last acquired lock before the savepoint was set.
sql/sql_delete.cc:
  Various changes to accommodate that lock requests are separated
  from lock tickets (granted locks).
sql/sql_handler.cc:
  Various changes to accommodate that lock requests are separated
  from lock tickets (granted locks).
sql/sql_insert.cc:
  Rename alloc_mdl_locks to alloc_mdl_requests.
sql/sql_parse.cc:
  Rename alloc_mdl_locks to alloc_mdl_requests.
sql/sql_plist.h:
  Typedef for iterator type.
sql/sql_plugin.cc:
  Rename alloc_mdl_locks to alloc_mdl_requests.
sql/sql_servers.cc:
  Rename alloc_mdl_locks to alloc_mdl_requests.
sql/sql_show.cc:
  Various changes to accommodate that lock requests are separated
  from lock tickets (granted locks).
sql/sql_table.cc:
  Various changes to accommodate that lock requests are separated
  from lock tickets (granted locks).
sql/sql_trigger.cc:
  Save reference to the lock ticket so it can be downgraded later.
sql/sql_udf.cc:
  Rename alloc_mdl_locks to alloc_mdl_requests.
sql/table.cc:
  Rename mdl_alloc_lock to mdl_request_alloc.
sql/table.h:
  Separate MDL lock requests from lock tickets (granted locks).
storage/myisammrg/ha_myisammrg.cc:
  Rename alloc_mdl_locks to alloc_mdl_requests.