The three-way hand-off has a problem: there's no way to arrange for the
state of the migration to be unambiguous in case of failure. If the
final "disconnect" message is lost (as in, the destination never
receives it whether it is sent by the sender or not), the destination
has no option but to quit with an error status and let a human sort it
out. However, at that point we can either arrange to have a .INCOMPLETE
file still on disc or not - and it doesn't matter which we choose, we
can still end up with dataloss by picking a specific calamity to have
befallen the sender.
Given this, it makes sense to fall back to a simpler protocol: just send
all the data, then send a "disconnect" message. This has the same
downside that we need a human to sort out specific failure cases, but
combined with --unlink before sending "disconnect" (see next patch) it
will always be possible for a human to disambiguate, whether the
destination quit with an error status or not.
If the client makes a write that's out of range, by the time we get to
validate the message at the server end the client has already stuffed
the socket with data we can't use, so we have to flush it.
This patch also fixes a potential problem in the acceptance tests where
the error field was being returned as an array rather than a value.
Without this, the error you get is a "Bad magic", when the next read
loop tries to read write data as a request. This should be flushed from
the socket (although *when* is an open question), but upping the log
level at least gives us a more informative output.
If the client cuts off part-way through the write, it should cause an
error, not a fatal. Previously this happened if the open file had a
fiemap, but not if there was no allocation map. This patch fixes that,
along with an associated valgrind error.
O_DIRECT causes problems on (at least) a wheezy VM, and there are mixed
reports about its performance impact. This patch makes it a
compile-time choice which should remain until it's been benchmarked.
When we receive a migration, if rebinding to the new listen address and
port fails for a reason which might be fixable, rather than killing the
server we retry once a second. Also in this patch: non-overlapping log
messages and a fix for the client going away halfway through a sendfile
loop.
If the sender disconnects its socket before sending the disconnect
message, the destination should restart the migration process. This
patch makes sure that happens.
Now that we have 3 mutexes lying around, it's important that we check
and free these if necessary if error() is called in any thread that can
hold them. To do this, we now have flexthread.c, which defines a
flexthread_mutex struct. This is a wrapper around a pthread_mutex_t and
a pthread_t. The idea is that in the error handler, the thread can
check whether it holds the mutex and can free it if and only if it does.
This is important because pthread fast mutexes can be freed by *any*
thread, not just the thread which holds them.
Note: it is only ever safe for a thread to check if it holds the mutex
itself. It is *never* safe to check if another thread holds a mutex
without first locking that mutex, which makes the whole operation rather
pointless.
trouble and into predictable cleanup functions (one for each of serve,
client & control contexts). We use 'fatal' to mean 'kill the thread' and
'error' to mean 'don't kill the thread', assuming some recovery action,
except I don't use error anywhere yet.
