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Previously there was no memory barrier enforcing correct memory ordering when waiting for a free IO handle. However, in the much more common case of waiting for IO to complete, memory barriers already were present. On strongly ordered architectures like x86 this had no negative consequences, but on some armv8 hardware (observed on Apple hardware), it was possible for the update, in the IO worker, to PgAioHandle->state to become visible before ->distilled_result becoming visible, leading to rather confusing assertion failures. The failures were rare enough that the bug sometimes took days to reproduce when running 027_stream_regress in a loop. Once finally debugged, it was easy enough to come up with a much quicker repro: Trigger a lot of very fast IO by limiting io_combine_limit to 1 and ensure that we always have to wait for a free handle by setting io_max_concurrency to 1. Triggering lots of concurrent seqscans in that setup triggers the issue within seconds. One reason this was hard to debug was that the assertion failure most commonly happened in WaitReadBuffers(), rather than in the AIO subsystem itself. The assertions added in this commit make problems like this easier to understand. Also add a comment to the IO worker explaining that we rely on the lwlock acquisition for correct memory ordering. I think it'd be good to add a tap test that stress tests buffer IO, but that's material for a separate patch. Thanks a lot to Alexander and Konstantin for all the debugging help. Reported-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]> Investigated-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Investigated-by: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]> Investigated-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2dkz7azclpeiqcmouamdixyn5xhlzy4rvikxrbovyzvi6rnv5c@pz7o7osv2ahf
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