lwlock: Fix, currently harmless, bug in LWLockWakeup()
authorAndres Freund <[email protected]>
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:37:09 +0000 (17:37 -0500)
committerAndres Freund <[email protected]>
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:39:08 +0000 (17:39 -0500)
commit8082b759d9b5067dcbdad7090c2e4bf1a4a6842d
tree88dd75c0820fff90a162906e43ee4ede57516020
parentf4e68a32a0cc0ff4b17ebe4e16be18ff15ff97a8
lwlock: Fix, currently harmless, bug in LWLockWakeup()

Accidentally the code in LWLockWakeup() checked the list of to-be-woken up
processes to see if LW_FLAG_HAS_WAITERS should be unset. That means that
HAS_WAITERS would not get unset immediately, but only during the next,
unnecessary, call to LWLockWakeup().

Luckily, as the code stands, this is just a small efficiency issue.

However, if there were (as in a patch of mine) a case in which LWLockWakeup()
would not find any backend to wake, despite the wait list not being empty,
we'd wrongly unset LW_FLAG_HAS_WAITERS, leading to potentially hanging.

While the consequences in the backbranches are limited, the code as-is
confusing, and it is possible that there are workloads where the additional
wait list lock acquisitions hurt, therefore backpatch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff
Backpatch-through: 14
src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c