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    A better fix for bug #56405 "Deadlock in the MDL deadlock · 49406b97
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    detector" that doesn't introduce bug #56715 "Concurrent
    transactions + FLUSH result in sporadical unwarranted
    deadlock errors".
    
    Deadlock could have occurred when workload containing a mix
    of DML, DDL and FLUSH TABLES statements affecting the same
    set of tables was executed in a heavily concurrent environment.
    
    This deadlock occurred when several connections tried to
    perform deadlock detection in the metadata locking subsystem.
    The first connection started traversing wait-for graph,
    encountered a sub-graph representing a wait for flush, acquired
    LOCK_open and dived into sub-graph inspection. Then it
    encountered sub-graph corresponding to wait for metadata lock
    and blocked while trying to acquire a rd-lock on
    MDL_lock::m_rwlock, since some,other thread had a wr-lock on it.
    When this wr-lock was released it could have happened (if there
    was another pending wr-lock against this rwlock) that the rd-lock
    from the first connection was left unsatisfied but at the same
    time the new rd-lock request from the second connection sneaked
    in and was satisfied (for this to be possible the second
    rd-request should come exactly after the wr-lock is released but
    before pending the wr-lock manages to grab rwlock, which is
    possible both on Linux and in our own rwlock implementation).
    If this second connection continued traversing the wait-for graph
    and encountered a sub-graph representing a wait for flush it tried
    to acquire LOCK_open and thus the deadlock was created.
    
    The previous patch tried to workaround this problem by not
    allowing the deadlock detector to lock LOCK_open mutex if
    some other thread doing deadlock detection already owns it
    and current search depth is greater than 0. Instead deadlock
    was reported. As a result it has introduced bug #56715.
    
    This patch solves this problem in a different way.
    It introduces a new rw_pr_lock_t implementation to be used
    by MDL subsystem instead of one based on Linux rwlocks or
    our own rwlock implementation. This new implementation
    never allows situation in which an rwlock is rd-locked and
    there is a blocked pending rd-lock. Thus the situation which
    has caused this bug becomes impossible with this implementation.
    
    Due to fact that this implementation is optimized for
    wr-lock/unlock scenario which is most common in the MDL
    subsystem it doesn't introduce noticeable performance
    regressions in sysbench tests. Moreover it significantly
    improves situation for POINT_SELECT test when many
    connections are used.
    
    No test case is provided as this bug is very hard to repeat
    in MTR environment but is repeatable with the help of RQG
    tests.
    This patch also doesn't include a test for bug #56715
    "Concurrent transactions + FLUSH result in sporadical
    unwarranted deadlock errors" as it takes too much time to
    be run as part of normal test-suite runs.
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