Marko Mäkelä added a comment - 2017-05-11 06:18 The underlying counter is srv_stats.n_lock_wait_current_count, which is only modified by the function lock_wait_suspend_thread(). The incrementing is protected by lock_sys->wait_mutex, but the decrementing does not appear to be protected by anything. This mismatch could allow the counter to be corrupted when a lock wait is terminating roughly at the same time with the start of a wait on (possibly another) lock. I think that both operations should be protected by atomics and that the incrementing can be done without holding any mutex.

Marko Mäkelä added a comment - 2017-05-11 06:46 The inaccuracy seems to be by design: /** Class for using fuzzy counters. The counter is not protected by any mutex and the results are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate but close enough. Creates an array of counters and separates each element by the CACHE_LINE_SIZE bytes */ template < typename Type, int N = IB_N_SLOTS, template<typename, int> class Indexer = default_indexer_t> class ib_counter_t That said, much of the time this template is instantiated with N=1, which appears to boil down to a single counter that is padded to two cache line sizes: typedef ib_counter_t<ulint, 64> ulint_ctr_64_t; typedef ib_counter_t<lsn_t, 1, single_indexer_t> lsn_ctr_1_t; typedef ib_counter_t<ulint, 1, single_indexer_t> ulint_ctr_1_t; typedef ib_counter_t<lint, 1, single_indexer_t> lint_ctr_1_t; typedef ib_counter_t<int64_t, 1, single_indexer_t> int64_ctr_1_t; typedef ib_counter_t<int64_t, IB_N_SLOTS> int64_counter_t; It seems reasonable to use atomics for the various _ctr_1_t counters when the performance impact is low. When atomic memory operations are not available, I think it would be more acceptable to have some overflows than to risk significantly reducing performance with some mutex operations. The only multi-slot counter types are ulint_ctr_64_t (used by a number of srv_stats counters) and int64_counter_t (used by rw_lock_stats). For the rw_lock_stats we should not care about accuracy. For srv_stats, the following counters are inaccurate by design. Based on the names of these counters, they are only ever incremented, never decremented, and it would seem to be acceptable to lose a few increments: ulint_ctr_64_t page_compression_saved; ulint_ctr_64_t index_pages_written; ulint_ctr_64_t non_index_pages_written; ulint_ctr_64_t pages_page_compressed; ulint_ctr_64_t page_compressed_trim_op; ulint_ctr_64_t pages_page_decompressed; ulint_ctr_64_t pages_page_compression_error; ulint_ctr_64_t pages_encrypted; ulint_ctr_64_t pages_decrypted; ulint_ctr_64_t n_rows_read; ulint_ctr_64_t n_rows_updated; ulint_ctr_64_t n_rows_deleted; ulint_ctr_64_t n_rows_inserted; ulint_ctr_64_t n_system_rows_read; ulint_ctr_64_t n_system_rows_updated; ulint_ctr_64_t n_system_rows_deleted; ulint_ctr_64_t n_system_rows_inserted; ulint_ctr_64_t n_sec_rec_cluster_reads; ulint_ctr_64_t n_sec_rec_cluster_reads_avoided; ulint_ctr_64_t page0_read; ulint_ctr_64_t n_key_requests; ulint_ctr_64_t n_log_scrubs; ulint_ctr_64_t key_rotation_list_length;

Marko Mäkelä added a comment - 2017-05-11 08:30 Only the following counters are both incremented and decremented, and thus we probably should use atomic memory access for updating them: /** Number of threads currently waiting on database locks */ lint_ctr_1_t n_lock_wait_current_count; /** Number of writes being done to the log files */ lint_ctr_1_t os_log_pending_writes;

Marko Mäkelä added a comment - 2017-05-11 19:07 - edited bb-10.0-marko bb-10.1-marko bb-10.2-marko There is no test case. I was not even able to repeat the overflow. This bug could require a very long run with an application with very high record lock contention to reproduce. These fixes should not only fix the overflow; they could also slightly improve the performance of the counters.

Jan Lindström (Inactive) added a comment - 2017-05-12 07:53 ok to push.