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 7a217801210e1fa64f459327c5b188e8f507f7b2..19ab1b61dce52e7b5b4a72f4fd5bee46d3199756 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/ginxlog.c
@@ -511,6 +511,19 @@ 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);
@@ -530,15 +543,6 @@ 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))