Bug#56096: STOP SLAVE hangs if executed in parallel with user sleep
The root of the problem is that to interrupt a slave SQL thread wait, the STOP SLAVE implementation uses thd->awake(THD::NOT_KILLED). This appears as a spurious wakeup (e.g. from a sleep on a condition variable) to the code that the slave SQL thread is executing at the time of the STOP. If the code is not written to be spurious-wakeup safe, unexpected behavior can occur. For the reported case, this problem led to an infinite loop around the interruptible_wait() function in item_func.cc (SLEEP() function implementation). The loop was not being properly restarted and, consequently, would not come to an end. Since the SLEEP function sleeps on a timed event in order to be killable and to perform periodic checks until the requested time has elapsed, the spurious wake up was causing the requested sleep time to be reset every two seconds. The solution is to calculate the requested absolute time only once and to ensure that the thread only sleeps until this time is elapsed. In case of a spurious wake up, the sleep is restarted using the previously calculated absolute time. This restores the behavior present in previous releases. If a slave thread is executing a SLEEP function, a STOP SLAVE statement will wait until the time requested in the sleep function has elapsed.
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