spack/lib/spack/llnl/util/lock.py
Todd Gamblin d87ededddc
lock transactions: avoid redundant reading in write transactions
Our `LockTransaction` class was reading overly aggressively.  In cases
like this:

```
1  with spack.store.db.read_transaction():
2    with spack.store.db.write_transaction():
3      ...
```

The `ReadTransaction` on line 1 would read in the DB, but the
WriteTransaction on line 2 would read in the DB *again*, even though we
had a read lock the whole time.  `WriteTransaction`s were only
considering nested writes to decide when to read, but they didn't know
when we already had a read lock.

- [x] `Lock.acquire_write()` return `False` in cases where we already had
       a read lock.
2019-12-23 23:18:45 -08:00

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Python

# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
import os
import fcntl
import errno
import time
import socket
import llnl.util.tty as tty
__all__ = ['Lock', 'LockTransaction', 'WriteTransaction', 'ReadTransaction',
'LockError', 'LockTimeoutError',
'LockPermissionError', 'LockROFileError', 'CantCreateLockError']
class Lock(object):
"""This is an implementation of a filesystem lock using Python's lockf.
In Python, ``lockf`` actually calls ``fcntl``, so this should work with
any filesystem implementation that supports locking through the fcntl
calls. This includes distributed filesystems like Lustre (when flock
is enabled) and recent NFS versions.
Note that this is for managing contention over resources *between*
processes and not for managing contention between threads in a process: the
functions of this object are not thread-safe. A process also must not
maintain multiple locks on the same file.
"""
def __init__(self, path, start=0, length=0, debug=False,
default_timeout=None):
"""Construct a new lock on the file at ``path``.
By default, the lock applies to the whole file. Optionally,
caller can specify a byte range beginning ``start`` bytes from
the start of the file and extending ``length`` bytes from there.
This exposes a subset of fcntl locking functionality. It does
not currently expose the ``whence`` parameter -- ``whence`` is
always ``os.SEEK_SET`` and ``start`` is always evaluated from the
beginning of the file.
"""
self.path = path
self._file = None
self._reads = 0
self._writes = 0
# byte range parameters
self._start = start
self._length = length
# enable debug mode
self.debug = debug
# If the user doesn't set a default timeout, or if they choose
# None, 0, etc. then lock attempts will not time out (unless the
# user sets a timeout for each attempt)
self.default_timeout = default_timeout or None
# PID and host of lock holder (only used in debug mode)
self.pid = self.old_pid = None
self.host = self.old_host = None
@staticmethod
def _poll_interval_generator(_wait_times=None):
"""This implements a backoff scheme for polling a contended resource
by suggesting a succession of wait times between polls.
It suggests a poll interval of .1s until 2 seconds have passed,
then a poll interval of .2s until 10 seconds have passed, and finally
(for all requests after 10s) suggests a poll interval of .5s.
This doesn't actually track elapsed time, it estimates the waiting
time as though the caller always waits for the full length of time
suggested by this function.
"""
num_requests = 0
stage1, stage2, stage3 = _wait_times or (1e-1, 2e-1, 5e-1)
wait_time = stage1
while True:
if num_requests >= 60: # 40 * .2 = 8
wait_time = stage3
elif num_requests >= 20: # 20 * .1 = 2
wait_time = stage2
num_requests += 1
yield wait_time
def _lock(self, op, timeout=None):
"""This takes a lock using POSIX locks (``fcntl.lockf``).
The lock is implemented as a spin lock using a nonblocking call
to ``lockf()``.
If the lock times out, it raises a ``LockError``. If the lock is
successfully acquired, the total wait time and the number of attempts
is returned.
"""
assert op in (fcntl.LOCK_SH, fcntl.LOCK_EX)
timeout = timeout or self.default_timeout
# Create file and parent directories if they don't exist.
if self._file is None:
parent = self._ensure_parent_directory()
# Open writable files as 'r+' so we can upgrade to write later
os_mode, fd_mode = (os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT), 'r+'
if os.path.exists(self.path):
if not os.access(self.path, os.W_OK):
if op == fcntl.LOCK_SH:
# can still lock read-only files if we open 'r'
os_mode, fd_mode = os.O_RDONLY, 'r'
else:
raise LockROFileError(self.path)
elif not os.access(parent, os.W_OK):
raise CantCreateLockError(self.path)
fd = os.open(self.path, os_mode)
self._file = os.fdopen(fd, fd_mode)
elif op == fcntl.LOCK_EX and self._file.mode == 'r':
# Attempt to upgrade to write lock w/a read-only file.
# If the file were writable, we'd have opened it 'r+'
raise LockROFileError(self.path)
poll_intervals = iter(Lock._poll_interval_generator())
start_time = time.time()
num_attempts = 0
while (not timeout) or (time.time() - start_time) < timeout:
num_attempts += 1
if self._poll_lock(op):
total_wait_time = time.time() - start_time
return total_wait_time, num_attempts
time.sleep(next(poll_intervals))
num_attempts += 1
if self._poll_lock(op):
total_wait_time = time.time() - start_time
return total_wait_time, num_attempts
raise LockTimeoutError("Timed out waiting for lock.")
def _poll_lock(self, op):
"""Attempt to acquire the lock in a non-blocking manner. Return whether
the locking attempt succeeds
"""
try:
# Try to get the lock (will raise if not available.)
fcntl.lockf(self._file, op | fcntl.LOCK_NB,
self._length, self._start, os.SEEK_SET)
# help for debugging distributed locking
if self.debug:
# All locks read the owner PID and host
self._read_debug_data()
# Exclusive locks write their PID/host
if op == fcntl.LOCK_EX:
self._write_debug_data()
return True
except IOError as e:
if e.errno in (errno.EAGAIN, errno.EACCES):
# EAGAIN and EACCES == locked by another process
pass
else:
raise
def _ensure_parent_directory(self):
parent = os.path.dirname(self.path)
# relative paths to lockfiles in the current directory have no parent
if not parent:
return '.'
try:
os.makedirs(parent)
except OSError as e:
# makedirs can fail when diretory already exists.
if not (e.errno == errno.EEXIST and os.path.isdir(parent) or
e.errno == errno.EISDIR):
raise
return parent
def _read_debug_data(self):
"""Read PID and host data out of the file if it is there."""
self.old_pid = self.pid
self.old_host = self.host
line = self._file.read()
if line:
pid, host = line.strip().split(',')
_, _, self.pid = pid.rpartition('=')
_, _, self.host = host.rpartition('=')
self.pid = int(self.pid)
def _write_debug_data(self):
"""Write PID and host data to the file, recording old values."""
self.old_pid = self.pid
self.old_host = self.host
self.pid = os.getpid()
self.host = socket.getfqdn()
# write pid, host to disk to sync over FS
self._file.seek(0)
self._file.write("pid=%s,host=%s" % (self.pid, self.host))
self._file.truncate()
self._file.flush()
os.fsync(self._file.fileno())
def _unlock(self):
"""Releases a lock using POSIX locks (``fcntl.lockf``)
Releases the lock regardless of mode. Note that read locks may
be masquerading as write locks, but this removes either.
"""
fcntl.lockf(self._file, fcntl.LOCK_UN,
self._length, self._start, os.SEEK_SET)
self._file.close()
self._file = None
def acquire_read(self, timeout=None):
"""Acquires a recursive, shared lock for reading.
Read and write locks can be acquired and released in arbitrary
order, but the POSIX lock is held until all local read and
write locks are released.
Returns True if it is the first acquire and actually acquires
the POSIX lock, False if it is a nested transaction.
"""
timeout = timeout or self.default_timeout
if self._reads == 0 and self._writes == 0:
self._debug(
'READ LOCK: {0.path}[{0._start}:{0._length}] [Acquiring]'
.format(self))
# can raise LockError.
wait_time, nattempts = self._lock(fcntl.LOCK_SH, timeout=timeout)
self._acquired_debug('READ LOCK', wait_time, nattempts)
self._reads += 1
return True
else:
self._reads += 1
return False
def acquire_write(self, timeout=None):
"""Acquires a recursive, exclusive lock for writing.
Read and write locks can be acquired and released in arbitrary
order, but the POSIX lock is held until all local read and
write locks are released.
Returns True if it is the first acquire and actually acquires
the POSIX lock, False if it is a nested transaction.
"""
timeout = timeout or self.default_timeout
if self._writes == 0:
self._debug(
'WRITE LOCK: {0.path}[{0._start}:{0._length}] [Acquiring]'
.format(self))
# can raise LockError.
wait_time, nattempts = self._lock(fcntl.LOCK_EX, timeout=timeout)
self._acquired_debug('WRITE LOCK', wait_time, nattempts)
self._writes += 1
# return True only if we weren't nested in a read lock.
# TODO: we may need to return two values: whether we got
# the write lock, and whether this is acquiring a read OR
# write lock for the first time. Now it returns the latter.
return self._reads == 0
else:
self._writes += 1
return False
def release_read(self, release_fn=None):
"""Releases a read lock.
Arguments:
release_fn (callable): function to call *before* the last recursive
lock (read or write) is released.
If the last recursive lock will be released, then this will call
release_fn and return its result (if provided), or return True
(if release_fn was not provided).
Otherwise, we are still nested inside some other lock, so do not
call the release_fn and, return False.
Does limited correctness checking: if a read lock is released
when none are held, this will raise an assertion error.
"""
assert self._reads > 0
if self._reads == 1 and self._writes == 0:
self._debug(
'READ LOCK: {0.path}[{0._start}:{0._length}] [Released]'
.format(self))
result = True
if release_fn is not None:
result = release_fn()
self._unlock() # can raise LockError.
self._reads -= 1
return result
else:
self._reads -= 1
return False
def release_write(self, release_fn=None):
"""Releases a write lock.
Arguments:
release_fn (callable): function to call before the last recursive
write is released.
If the last recursive *write* lock will be released, then this
will call release_fn and return its result (if provided), or
return True (if release_fn was not provided). Otherwise, we are
still nested inside some other write lock, so do not call the
release_fn, and return False.
Does limited correctness checking: if a read lock is released
when none are held, this will raise an assertion error.
"""
assert self._writes > 0
if self._writes == 1 and self._reads == 0:
self._debug(
'WRITE LOCK: {0.path}[{0._start}:{0._length}] [Released]'
.format(self))
# we need to call release_fn before releasing the lock
result = True
if release_fn is not None:
result = release_fn()
self._unlock() # can raise LockError.
self._writes -= 1
return result
else:
self._writes -= 1
# when the last *write* is released, we call release_fn here
# instead of immediately before releasing the lock.
if self._writes == 0:
return release_fn() if release_fn is not None else True
else:
return False
def _debug(self, *args):
tty.debug(*args)
def _acquired_debug(self, lock_type, wait_time, nattempts):
attempts_format = 'attempt' if nattempts == 1 else 'attempt'
if nattempts > 1:
acquired_attempts_format = ' after {0:0.2f}s and {1:d} {2}'.format(
wait_time, nattempts, attempts_format)
else:
# Dont print anything if we succeeded immediately
acquired_attempts_format = ''
self._debug(
'{0}: {1.path}[{1._start}:{1._length}] [Acquired{2}]'
.format(lock_type, self, acquired_attempts_format))
class LockTransaction(object):
"""Simple nested transaction context manager that uses a file lock.
Arguments:
lock (Lock): underlying lock for this transaction to be accquired on
enter and released on exit
acquire (callable or contextmanager): function to be called after lock
is acquired, or contextmanager to enter after acquire and leave
before release.
release (callable): function to be called before release. If
``acquire`` is a contextmanager, this will be called *after*
exiting the nexted context and before the lock is released.
timeout (float): number of seconds to set for the timeout when
accquiring the lock (default no timeout)
If the ``acquire_fn`` returns a value, it is used as the return value for
``__enter__``, allowing it to be passed as the ``as`` argument of a
``with`` statement.
If ``acquire_fn`` returns a context manager, *its* ``__enter__`` function
will be called after the lock is acquired, and its ``__exit__`` funciton
will be called before ``release_fn`` in ``__exit__``, allowing you to
nest a context manager inside this one.
Timeout for lock is customizable.
"""
def __init__(self, lock, acquire=None, release=None, timeout=None):
self._lock = lock
self._timeout = timeout
self._acquire_fn = acquire
self._release_fn = release
self._as = None
def __enter__(self):
if self._enter() and self._acquire_fn:
self._as = self._acquire_fn()
if hasattr(self._as, '__enter__'):
return self._as.__enter__()
else:
return self._as
def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
suppress = False
def release_fn():
if self._release_fn is not None:
return self._release_fn(type, value, traceback)
if self._as and hasattr(self._as, '__exit__'):
if self._as.__exit__(type, value, traceback):
suppress = True
if self._exit(release_fn):
suppress = True
return suppress
class ReadTransaction(LockTransaction):
"""LockTransaction context manager that does a read and releases it."""
def _enter(self):
return self._lock.acquire_read(self._timeout)
def _exit(self, release_fn):
return self._lock.release_read(release_fn)
class WriteTransaction(LockTransaction):
"""LockTransaction context manager that does a write and releases it."""
def _enter(self):
return self._lock.acquire_write(self._timeout)
def _exit(self, release_fn):
return self._lock.release_write(release_fn)
class LockError(Exception):
"""Raised for any errors related to locks."""
class LockTimeoutError(LockError):
"""Raised when an attempt to acquire a lock times out."""
class LockPermissionError(LockError):
"""Raised when there are permission issues with a lock."""
class LockROFileError(LockPermissionError):
"""Tried to take an exclusive lock on a read-only file."""
def __init__(self, path):
msg = "Can't take write lock on read-only file: %s" % path
super(LockROFileError, self).__init__(msg)
class CantCreateLockError(LockPermissionError):
"""Attempt to create a lock in an unwritable location."""
def __init__(self, path):
msg = "cannot create lock '%s': " % path
msg += "file does not exist and location is not writable"
super(LockError, self).__init__(msg)