In buf_flush_page_cleaner(), we may fail to advance the log checkpoint. I suppose that we may end up with an empty buf_pool.flush_list and a very old checkpoint age if the last page was written out by LRU eviction, or something like that.

This was detected by hangs of the tests innodb_gis.rtree_compress and innodb.undo_truncate in the bb-10.6-MDEV-26356 branch. The reason of the failure is that with MDEV-26356, we would skip purge altogether if the redo log capacity has been reached.

Failure to advance the checkpoint will cause unnecessary extra work on crash recovery or in backup. I suppose that this mostly affects an idle server.