Prevent deadlock in ginRedoDeletePage()

On standby ginRedoDeletePage() can work concurrently with read-only queries.
Those queries can traverse posting tree in two ways.
1) Using rightlinks by ginStepRight(), which locks the next page before
   unlocking its left sibling.
2) Using downlinks by ginFindLeafPage(), which locks at most one page at time.

Original lock order was: page, parent, left sibling.  That lock order can
deadlock with ginStepRight().  In order to prevent deadlock this commit changes
lock order to: left sibling, page, parent.  Note, that position of parent in
locking order seems insignificant, because we only lock one page at time while
traversing downlinks.

Reported-by: Chen Huajun
Diagnosed-by: Chen Huajun, Peter Geoghegan, Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31a702a.14dd.166c1366ac1.Coremail.chjischj%40163.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 9.4

diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
index 5be04b21d4c8fbda0c4c727cee98b802fb8a8833..37bdcc40fac7c18312f806093f5a64cc605c5fcc 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
@@ -513,6 +513,19 @@ ginRedoDeletePage(XLogReaderState *record)
    Buffer      lbuffer;
    Page        page;
 
+   /*
+    * Lock left page first in order to prevent possible deadlock with
+    * ginStepRight().
+    */
+   if (XLogReadBufferForRedo(record, 2, &lbuffer) == BLK_NEEDS_REDO)
+   {
+       page = BufferGetPage(lbuffer);
+       Assert(GinPageIsData(page));
+       GinPageGetOpaque(page)->rightlink = data->rightLink;
+       PageSetLSN(page, lsn);
+       MarkBufferDirty(lbuffer);
+   }
+
    if (XLogReadBufferForRedo(record, 0, &dbuffer) == BLK_NEEDS_REDO)
    {
        page = BufferGetPage(dbuffer);
@@ -532,15 +545,6 @@ ginRedoDeletePage(XLogReaderState *record)
        MarkBufferDirty(pbuffer);
    }
 
-   if (XLogReadBufferForRedo(record, 2, &lbuffer) == BLK_NEEDS_REDO)
-   {
-       page = BufferGetPage(lbuffer);
-       Assert(GinPageIsData(page));
-       GinPageGetOpaque(page)->rightlink = data->rightLink;
-       PageSetLSN(page, lsn);
-       MarkBufferDirty(lbuffer);
-   }
-
    if (BufferIsValid(lbuffer))
        UnlockReleaseBuffer(lbuffer);
    if (BufferIsValid(pbuffer))