Cast an unified ring + storage area to a ring from area, without
reinitializing the data buffer. Reinitialize the waiters and the lock.
It helps retrieving a previously allocated ring, from an mmap for
example.
Fix the size check in ring_make_from_area() which is checking the size
of the pointer instead of the size of the structure.
No backport needed, 2.7 only.
Instead of allocating two parts, one for the ring struct itself and
one for the storage area, ring_make_from_area() will arrange the two
inside the same memory area, with the storage starting immediately
after the struct. This will allow to store a complete ring state in
shared memory areas for example.
The ring's CLI reader unlocks the read side of a ring and relocks it for
writing only if it needs to re-subscribe. But during this time, the writer
might have pushed data, see nobody subscribed hence woken nobody, while
the reader would have left marking that the applet had no more data. This
results in a dump that will not make any forward progress: the ring is
clogged by this reader which believes there's no data and the writer
will never wake it up.
The right approach consists in verifying after re-attaching if the writer
had made any progress in between, and to report that another call is
needed. Note that a jump back to the beginning would also work but here
we provide better fairness between readers this way.
This needs to be backported to 2.2. The applet API needed to signal the
availability of new data changed a few times since then.
There's no more reason for keepin the code and definitions in conn_stream,
let's move all that to stconn. The alphabetical ordering of include files
was adjusted.
This file contains all the stream-connector functions that are specific
to application layers of type stream. So let's name it accordingly so
that it's easier to figure what's located there.
The alphabetical ordering of include files was preserved.
The analysis of cs_rx_endp_more() showed that the purpose is for a stream
endpoint to inform the connector that it's ready to deliver more data to
that one, and conversely cs_rx_endp_done() that it's done delivering data
so it should not be bothered again for this.
This was modified two ways:
- the operation is no longer performed on the connector but on the
endpoint so that there is no more doubt when reading applet code
about what this rx refers to; it's the endpoint that has more or
no more data.
- an applet implementation is also provided and mostly used from
applet code since it saves the caller from having to access the
endpoint descriptor.
It's visible that the flag ought to be inverted because some places
have to set it by default for no reason.
We're starting to propagate the stream connector's new name through the
API. Most call places of these functions that retrieve the channel or its
buffer are in applets. The local variable names are not changed in order
to keep the changes small and reviewable. There were ~92 uses of cs_ic(),
~96 of cs_oc() (due to co_get*() being less factorizable than ci_put*),
and ~5 accesses to the buffer itself.
This applies the change so that the applet code stops using ci_putchk()
and friends everywhere possible, for the much saferapplet_put*() instead.
The change is mechanical but large. Two or three functions used to have no
appctx and a cs derived from the appctx instead, which was a reminiscence
of old times' stream_interface. These were simply changed to directly take
the appctx. No sensitive change was performed, and the old (more complex)
API is still usable when needed (e.g. the channel is already known).
The change touched roughly a hundred of locations, with no less than 124
lines removed.
It's worth noting that the stats applet, the oldest of the series, could
get a serious lifting, as it's still very channel-centric instead of
propagating the appctx along the chain. Given that this code doesn't
change often, there's no emergency to clean it up but it would look
better.
This renames the "struct conn_stream" to "struct stconn" and updates
the descriptions in all comments (and the rare help descriptions) to
"stream connector" or "connector". This touches a lot of files but
the change is minimal. The local variables were not even renamed, so
there's still a lot of "cs" everywhere.
This one is the pointer to the conn_stream which is always in the
endpoint that is always present in the appctx, thus it's not needed.
This patch removes it and replaces it with appctx_cs() instead. A
few occurences that were using __cs_strm(appctx->owner) were moved
directly to appctx_strm() which does the equivalent.
The ring code was using ctx.cli.i0/p0/o0 to store its context during CLI
dumps via "show events" or "show errors". Let's use a locally defined
context and drop that.
The ring watch flags (wait, seek end) were dangerously passed via ctx.cli.i0
from "show buf" in sink.c:cli_parse_show_events(), or implicitly reset in
"show errors". That's very unconvenient, difficult to follow, and prone to
short-term breakage.
Let's pass an extra argument to ring_attach_cli() to take these flags, now
defined in ring-t.h as RING_WF_*, and let the function set them itself
where appropriate (still ctx.cli.i0 for now).
Remaining flags and associated functions are move in the conn-stream
scope. These flags are added on the endpoint and not the conn-stream
itself. This way it will be possible to get them from the mux or the
applet. The functions to get or set these flags are renamed accordingly with
the "cs_" prefix and updated to manipualte a conn-stream instead of a
stream-interface.
At many places, we now use the new CS functions to get a stream or a channel
from a conn-stream instead of using the stream-interface API. It is the
first step to reduce the scope of the stream-interfaces. The main change
here is about the applet I/O callback functions. Before the refactoring, the
stream-interface was the appctx owner. Thus, it was heavily used. Now, as
far as possible,the conn-stream is used. Of course, it remains many calls to
the stream-interface API.
Because appctx is now an endpoint of the conn-stream, there is no reason to
still have the stream-interface as appctx owner. Thus, the conn-stream is
now the appctx owner.
The current "ADD" vs "ADDQ" is confusing because when thinking in terms
of appending at the end of a list, "ADD" naturally comes to mind, but
here it does the opposite, it inserts. Several times already it's been
incorrectly used where ADDQ was expected, the latest of which was a
fortunate accident explained in 6fa922562 ("CLEANUP: stream: explain
why we queue the stream at the head of the server list").
Let's use more explicit (but slightly longer) names now:
LIST_ADD -> LIST_INSERT
LIST_ADDQ -> LIST_APPEND
LIST_ADDED -> LIST_INLIST
LIST_DEL -> LIST_DELETE
The same is true for MT_LISTs, including their "TRY" variant.
LIST_DEL_INIT keeps its short name to encourage to use it instead of the
lazier LIST_DELETE which is often less safe.
The change is large (~674 non-comment entries) but is mechanical enough
to remain safe. No permutation was performed, so any out-of-tree code
can easily map older names to new ones.
The list doc was updated.
This patch replaces roughly all occurrences of an HA_ATOMIC_ADD(&foo, 1)
or HA_ATOMIC_SUB(&foo, 1) with the equivalent HA_ATOMIC_INC(&foo) and
HA_ATOMIC_DEC(&foo) respectively. These are 507 changes over 45 files.
This patch fixes all the leftovers from the include cleanup campaign. There
were not that many (~400 entries in ~150 files) but it was definitely worth
doing it as it revealed a few duplicates.
Almost no change except moving the cli_kw struct definition after the
defines. Almost all users had both types&proto included, which is not
surprizing since this code is old and it used to be the norm a decade
ago. These places were cleaned.
The type file was slightly tidied. The cli-specific APPCTX_CLI_ST1_* flag
definitions were moved to cli.h. The type file was adjusted to include
buf-t.h and not the huge buf.h. A few call places were fixed because they
did not need this include.
This splits the hathreads.h file into types+macros and functions. Given
that most users of this file used to include it only to get the definition
of THREAD_LOCAL and MAXTHREADS, the bare minimum was placed into thread-t.h
(i.e. types and macros).
All the thread management was left to haproxy/thread.h. It's worth noting
the drop of the trailing "s" in the name, to remove the permanent confusion
that arises between this one and the system implementation (no "s") and the
makefile's option (no "s").
For consistency, src/hathreads.c was also renamed thread.c.
A number of files were updated to only include thread-t which is the one
they really needed.
Some future improvements are possible like replacing empty inlined
functions with macros for the thread-less case, as building at -O0 disables
inlining and causes these ones to be emitted. But this really is cosmetic.
File buf.h is one common cause of pain in the dependencies. Many files in
the code need it to get the struct buffer definition, and a few also need
the inlined functions to manipulate a buffer, but the file used to depend
on a long chain only for BUG_ON() (addressed by last commit).
Now buf.h is split into buf-t.h which only contains the type definitions,
and buf.h for all inlined functions. Callers who don't care can continue
to use buf.h but files in types/ must only use buf-t.h. sys/types.h had
to be added to buf.h to get ssize_t as used by b_move(). It's worth noting
that ssize_t is only supposed to be a size_t supporting -1, so b_move()
ought to be rethought regarding this.
The files were moved to haproxy/ and all their users were updated
accordingly. A dependency issue was addressed on fcgi whose C file didn't
include buf.h.
All files that were including one of the following include files have
been updated to only include haproxy/api.h or haproxy/api-t.h once instead:
- common/config.h
- common/compat.h
- common/compiler.h
- common/defaults.h
- common/initcall.h
- common/tools.h
The choice is simple: if the file only requires type definitions, it includes
api-t.h, otherwise it includes the full api.h.
In addition, in these files, explicit includes for inttypes.h and limits.h
were dropped since these are now covered by api.h and api-t.h.
No other change was performed, given that this patch is large and
affects 201 files. At least one (tools.h) was already freestanding and
didn't get the new one added.
The ring to applet communication was only made to deal with CLI functions
but it's generic. Let's have generic appctx functions and have the CLI
rely on these instead. This patch introduces ring_attach_appctx() and
ring_detach_appctx().
A few fields, including a generic list entry, were added to the CLI context
by commit 300decc8d9 ("MINOR: cli: extend the CLI context with a list and
two offsets"). It turns out that the list entry (l0) is solely used to
consult rings and that the generic ring_write() code is restricted to a
consumer on the CLI due to this, which was not the initial intent. Let's
make it a general purpose wait_entry field that is properly initialized
during appctx_init(). This will allow any applet to wait on a ring, not
just the CLI.
The LIST_ADDQ() and LIST_DEL_INIT() calls made to attach/detach a waiter
to the ring were made under a read lock which was sufficient in front of
the writer's write lock. But it's not sufficient against other readers!
Thus theorically multiple "show events" on the same ring buffer on the
CLI could result in a crash, even though for now I couldn't manage to
reproduce it.
This fixes commit 1d181e489c ("MEDIUM: ring: implement a wait mode for
watchers") so it must be backported to 2.1, possibly further if the ring
code gets backported.
ring_attach_cli() is called by the keyword parsing function to dump a
ring to the CLI. It can only work with a specific handler and release
function. Let's make it set them appropriately instead of having the
caller know these functions. This way adding a command to dump a ring
is as simple as declaring a parsing function calling ring_attach_cli().
Now it is possible for a reader to subscribe and wait for new events
sent to a ring buffer. When new events are written to a ring buffer,
the applets that are subscribed are woken up to display new events.
For now we only support this with the CLI applet called by "show events"
since the I/O handler is indeed a CLI I/O handler. But it's not
complicated to add other mechanisms to consume events and forward them
to external log servers for example. The wait mode is enabled by adding
"-w" after "show events <sink>". An extra "-n" was added to directly
seek to new events only.
There are two problems with the way we count watchers on a ring:
- the test for >=255 was accidently kept to 1 used during QA
- if the producer deletes all data up to the reader's position
and the reader is called, cannot write, and is called again,
it will have a zero offset, causing it to initialize itself
multiple times and each time adding a new refcount.
Let's change this and instead use ~0 as the initial offset as it's
not possible to have it as a valid one. We now store it into the
CLI context's size_t o0 instead of casting it to a void*.
No backport needed.
The three functions (attach, IO handler, and release) are meant to be
called by any CLI command which requires to dump the contents of a ring
buffer. We do not implement anything generic to dump any ring buffer on
the CLI since it's meant to be used by other functionalities above.
However these functions deal with locking and everything so it's trivial
to embed them in other code.
This function tries to write to the ring buffer, possibly removing enough
old messages to make room for the new one. It takes two arrays of fragments
on input to ease the insertion of prefixes by the caller. It atomically
writes the message, possibly truncating it if desired, and returns the
operation's status.
Our circular buffers are well suited for being used as ring buffers for
not-so-structured data. The machanism here consists in making room in a
buffer before inserting a new record which is prefixed by its size, and
looking up next record based on the previous one's offset and size. We
can have up to 255 consumers watching for data (dump in progress, tail)
which guarantee that entrees are not recycled while they're being dumped.
The complete representation is described in the header file. For now only
ring_new(), ring_resize() and ring_free() are created.
