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Yanqin Jin
1f5def1653 Fix race condition causing double deletion of ssts
Summary:
Possible interleaved execution of background compaction thread calling `FindObsoleteFiles (no full scan) / PurgeObsoleteFiles` and user thread calling `FindObsoleteFiles (full scan) / PurgeObsoleteFiles` can lead to race condition on which RocksDB attempts to delete a file twice. The second attempt will fail and return `IO error`. This may occur to other files,  but this PR targets sst.
Also add a unit test to verify that this PR fixes the issue.

The newly added unit test `obsolete_files_test` has a test case for this scenario, implemented in `ObsoleteFilesTest#RaceForObsoleteFileDeletion`. `TestSyncPoint`s are used to coordinate the interleaving the `user_thread` and background compaction thread. They execute as follows
```
timeline              user_thread                background_compaction thread
t1   |                                          FindObsoleteFiles(full_scan=false)
t2   |     FindObsoleteFiles(full_scan=true)
t3   |                                          PurgeObsoleteFiles
t4   |     PurgeObsoleteFiles
     V
```
When `user_thread` invokes `FindObsoleteFiles` with full scan, it collects ALL files in RocksDB directory, including the ones that background compaction thread have collected in its job context. Then `user_thread` will see an IO error when trying to delete these files in `PurgeObsoleteFiles` because background compaction thread has already deleted the file in `PurgeObsoleteFiles`.
To fix this, we make RocksDB remember which (SST) files have been found by threads after calling `FindObsoleteFiles` (see `DBImpl#files_grabbed_for_purge_`). Therefore, when another thread calls `FindObsoleteFiles` with full scan, it will not collect such files.

ajkr could you take a look and comment? Thanks!
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/3638

Differential Revision: D7384372

Pulled By: riversand963

fbshipit-source-id: 01489516d60012e722ee65a80e1449e589ce26d3
2018-03-28 10:29:59 -07:00