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    Implement new type-of-operation-aware metadata locks. · afd15c43
    Dmitry Lenev authored
    Add a wait-for graph based deadlock detector to the
    MDL subsystem.
    
    Fixes bug #46272 "MySQL 5.4.4, new MDL: unnecessary deadlock" and
    bug #37346 "innodb does not detect deadlock between update and
    alter table".
    
    The first bug manifested itself as an unwarranted abort of a
    transaction with ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error by a concurrent ALTER
    statement, when this transaction tried to repeat use of a
    table, which it has already used in a similar fashion before
    ALTER started.
    
    The second bug showed up as a deadlock between table-level
    locks and InnoDB row locks, which was "detected" only after
    innodb_lock_wait_timeout timeout.
    
    A transaction would start using the table and modify a few
    rows.
    Then ALTER TABLE would come in, and start copying rows
    into a temporary table. Eventually it would stumble on
    the modified records and get blocked on a row lock.
    The first transaction would try to do more updates, and get
    blocked on thr_lock.c lock.
    This situation of circular wait would only get resolved
    by a timeout.
    
    Both these bugs stemmed from inadequate solutions to the
    problem of deadlocks occurring between different
    locking subsystems.
    
    In the first case we tried to avoid deadlocks between metadata
    locking and table-level locking subsystems, when upgrading shared
    metadata lock to exclusive one.
    Transactions holding the shared lock on the table and waiting for
    some table-level lock used to be aborted too aggressively.
    
    We also allowed ALTER TABLE to start in presence of transactions
    that modify the subject table. ALTER TABLE acquires
    TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ lock at start, and that block all writes
    against the table (naturally, we don't want any writes to be lost
    when switching the old and the new table). TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ
    lock, in turn, would block the started transaction on thr_lock.c
    lock, should they do more updates. This, again, lead to the need
    to abort such transactions.
    
    The second bug occurred simply because we didn't have any
    mechanism to detect deadlocks between the table-level locks
    in thr_lock.c and row-level locks in InnoDB, other than
    innodb_lock_wait_timeout.
    
    This patch solves both these problems by moving lock conflicts
    which are causing these deadlocks into the metadata locking
    subsystem, thus making it possible to avoid or detect such
    deadlocks inside MDL.
    
    To do this we introduce new type-of-operation-aware metadata
    locks, which allow MDL subsystem to know not only the fact that
    transaction has used or is going to use some object but also what
    kind of operation it has carried out or going to carry out on the
    object.
    
    This, along with the addition of a special kind of upgradable
    metadata lock, allows ALTER TABLE to wait until all
    transactions which has updated the table to go away.
    This solves the second issue.
    Another special type of upgradable metadata lock is acquired
    by LOCK TABLE WRITE. This second lock type allows to solve the
    first issue, since abortion of table-level locks in event of
    DDL under LOCK TABLES becomes also unnecessary.
    
    Below follows the list of incompatible changes introduced by
    this patch:
    
    - From now on, ALTER TABLE and CREATE/DROP TRIGGER SQL (i.e. those
      statements that acquire TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ lock)
      wait for all transactions which has *updated* the table to
      complete.
    
    - From now on, LOCK TABLES ... WRITE, REPAIR/OPTIMIZE TABLE
      (i.e. all statements which acquire TL_WRITE table-level lock) wait
      for all transaction which *updated or read* from the table
      to complete.
      As a consequence, innodb_table_locks=0 option no longer applies
      to LOCK TABLES ... WRITE.
    
    - DROP DATABASE, DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE no longer abort
      statements or transactions which use tables being dropped or
      renamed, and instead wait for these transactions to complete.
    
    - Since LOCK TABLES WRITE now takes a special metadata lock,
      not compatible with with reads or writes against the subject table
      and transaction-wide, thr_lock.c deadlock avoidance algorithm
      that used to ensure absence of deadlocks between LOCK TABLES
      WRITE and other statements is no longer sufficient, even for
      MyISAM. The wait-for graph based deadlock detector of MDL
      subsystem may sometimes be necessary and is involved. This may
      lead to ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error produced for multi-statement
      transactions even if these only use MyISAM:
    
      session 1:         session 2:
      begin;
    
      update t1 ...      lock table t2 write, t1 write;
                         -- gets a lock on t2, blocks on t1
    
      update t2 ...
      (ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK)
    
    - Finally,  support of LOW_PRIORITY option for LOCK TABLES ... WRITE
      was abandoned.
      LOCK TABLE ... LOW_PRIORITY WRITE from now on has the same
      priority as the usual LOCK TABLE ... WRITE.
      SELECT HIGH PRIORITY no longer trumps LOCK TABLE ... WRITE  in
      the wait queue.
    
    - We do not take upgradable metadata locks on implicitly
      locked tables. So if one has, say, a view v1 that uses
      table t1, and issues:
      LOCK TABLE v1 WRITE;
      FLUSH TABLE t1; -- (or just 'FLUSH TABLES'),
      an error is produced.
      In order to be able to perform DDL on a table under LOCK TABLES,
      the table must be locked explicitly in the LOCK TABLES list.
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