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Jon Olav Hauglid authored
This deadlock could occour betweeen one connection executing SET GLOBAL EVENT_SCHEDULER= ON and another executing SET GLOBAL EVENT_SCHEDULER= OFF. The bug was introduced by WL#4738. The first connection would hold LOCK_event_metadata (protecting the global variable) while trying to lock LOCK_global_system_variables starting the event scheduler thread (in THD:init()). The second connection would hold LOCK_global_system_variables while trying to get LOCK_event_scheduler after stopping the event scheduler inside event_scheduler_update(). This patch fixes the problem by not using LOCK_event_metadata to protect the event_scheduler variable. It is still protected using LOCK_global_system_variables. This fixes the deadlock as it removes one of the two mutexes used to produce it. However, this patch opens up the possibility that the event_scheduler variable and the real event_scheduler state can become out of sync (e.g. variable = OFF, but scheduler running). But this can only happen under very unlikely conditions - two concurrent SET GLOBAL statments, with one thread interrupted at the exact wrong moment. This is preferable to having the possibility of a deadlock. This patch also fixes a bug where it was possible to exit create_event() without releasing LOCK_event_metadata if running out of memory during its exection. No test case added since a repeatable test case would have required excessive use of new sync points. Instead we rely on the fact that this bug was easily reproduceable using RGQ tests.
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