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Merge pull request #7759 from VersatusHPC/fix/xcatd-respawn-install-monitor

fix(xcat-core): a dead xcatd install monitor never comes back
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Daniel Hilst
2026-09-03 16:58:01 -03:00
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5 changed files with 849 additions and 10 deletions
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# IBM(c) 2007 EPL license http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
package xCAT::RespawnUtils;
# Backoff for a parent that re-forks a child when it dies; xcatd's install monitor is the
# caller. The delay doubles from min_interval to max_interval and holds there.
#
# There is no attempt limit. A spent budget cannot be refilled: with no child alive nothing
# resets it, and the resource stays dead until xcatd restarts. A child that ran `healthy`
# seconds served, so its death resets the delay.
#
# Every sub returns a new state and leaves its argument alone, so exited() can run in a
# SIGCHLD handler.
#
# The state is a plain hash; call the subs below for the next state.
#
# min_interval shortest wait, and what a healthy run resets the delay to
# max_interval longest wait; the delay doubles up to this
# healthy seconds a child must survive to count as having served
# delay the wait after the next failure
# next_at earliest time() at which another attempt is allowed
# started_at when the running child was forked, undef when none is running
# streak children in a row that died young
# reported whether the ceiling was already logged for this streak
use strict;
use warnings;
# The tunables reach policy() straight from %ENV, so they can be empty or misspelt. Anything
# that is not a whole number is treated as unset.
sub _tunable {
my ($value, $default) = @_;
return $default unless defined($value) && $value =~ /^\s*\d+\s*$/;
return $value + 0;
}
sub policy {
my (%opt) = @_;
my $min = _tunable($opt{min_interval}, 5);
my $max = _tunable($opt{max_interval}, 300);
my $healthy = _tunable($opt{healthy}, 60);
$min = 1 if $min < 1; # 0 doubles to 0, which is a fork storm
$max = $min if $max < $min;
return {
min_interval => $min,
max_interval => $max,
healthy => $healthy,
delay => $min,
next_at => 0,
started_at => undef,
streak => 0,
reported => 0,
};
}
sub due {
my ($state, $now) = @_;
return $now >= $state->{next_at} ? 1 : 0;
}
# Call before forking: the child can die and be reaped before fork() returns to the parent.
sub forked {
my ($state, $now) = @_;
return { %$state, started_at => $now };
}
sub exited {
my ($state, $now) = @_;
my %next = (%$state, started_at => undef);
if (defined($state->{started_at})
and ($now - $state->{started_at}) >= $state->{healthy}) {
$next{delay} = $state->{min_interval};
$next{next_at} = $now;
$next{streak} = 0;
$next{reported} = 0;
} else {
$next{streak} = $state->{streak} + 1;
$next{next_at} = $now + $state->{delay};
$next{delay} = ($state->{delay} * 2 > $state->{max_interval})
? $state->{max_interval}
: $state->{delay} * 2;
}
return \%next;
}
# Keeps the log to one line per streak rather than one per attempt.
sub should_report {
my ($state) = @_;
return 0 if $state->{reported};
return 0 if $state->{streak} < 1;
return $state->{delay} >= $state->{max_interval} ? 1 : 0;
}
sub reported {
my ($state) = @_;
return { %$state, reported => 1 };
}
# --- Forking -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The one impure sub. Everything above is arithmetic.
# Fork a child, taking its body as a block:
#
# xCAT::RespawnUtils::supervise { ...child... }
# state => \$state, pid => \$pid, now => time();
#
# `state` and `pid` are references to the caller's own variables. The reaper matches the dead
# child against that pid and folds the death into that state, so both have to be in place
# while SIGCHLD is still blocked; values assigned from a return would land after it is let
# back in, and a child dying in the gap would be compared against a pid still holding 0.
#
# The (&@) prototype needs this module loaded with `use`. Under `require` the sub is unknown
# when the call is compiled, the block is read as a bare block, and its value arrives as the
# first argument.
#
# The block runs only in the child and is not expected to return. Passing a live `pid` is a
# no-op. Returns the new pid.
sub supervise (&@) {
my ($child, %arg) = @_;
my ($stateref, $pidref, $now) = @arg{qw(state pid now)};
return $$pidref if $$pidref;
require POSIX;
require xCAT::Utils;
my $mask = POSIX::SigSet->new(POSIX::SIGCHLD());
POSIX::sigprocmask(POSIX::SIG_BLOCK(), $mask);
$$stateref = forked($$stateref, $now);
my $pid = xCAT::Utils->xfork;
unless (defined $pid) { # could not fork: count it and back off
$$stateref = exited($$stateref, $now);
$$pidref = 0;
POSIX::sigprocmask(POSIX::SIG_UNBLOCK(), $mask);
return 0;
}
unless ($pid) { # the child must not serve with SIGCHLD blocked
POSIX::sigprocmask(POSIX::SIG_UNBLOCK(), $mask);
$child->();
POSIX::_exit(0);
}
$$pidref = $pid; # in place before the reaper runs, or it matches a stale pid
POSIX::sigprocmask(POSIX::SIG_UNBLOCK(), $mask);
return $pid;
}
1;
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@@ -50,9 +50,18 @@ use xCAT::TLSPolicy qw(resolve_xcatd_tls_settings);
use xCAT::TableUtils;
use xCAT::NetworkUtils;
use xCAT::MsgUtils;
use xCAT::RespawnUtils;
use xCAT::xcatd;
use xCAT::CmdLog;
use xCAT::State;
# Pacing for re-forking the install monitor; see the main service loop below.
my $mon_respawn = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy(
min_interval => $ENV{XCATD_MON_RESPAWN_MIN_INTERVAL},
max_interval => $ENV{XCATD_MON_RESPAWN_MAX_INTERVAL},
healthy => $ENV{XCATD_MON_RESPAWN_HEALTHY},
);
my $os = xCAT::Utils->osver();
my $arch = `uname -p`;
@@ -1022,11 +1031,24 @@ wait_db_process();
my $CHILDPID = 0; # Global for reapers
my %immediatechildren;
# Both reapers call this. generic_reaper is the handler at startup and while connections are
# throttled, ssl_reaper for the rest of the service loop. A death reaped without this leaves
# $pid_MON holding a dead pid, and the service loop re-forks only when $pid_MON is clear.
sub reap_install_monitor {
my ($pid) = @_;
return unless $pid_MON and $pid == $pid_MON;
$pid_MON = 0;
$mon_respawn = xCAT::RespawnUtils::exited($mon_respawn, time());
return;
}
sub generic_reaper {
local ($!);
#print "generic_reaper in $$...";
while (($CHILDPID = waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)) > 0) {
#print "reaper for $CHILDPID...\n";
reap_install_monitor($CHILDPID);
if ($CHILDPID == $pid_UDP) {
if ($udpctl) {
# got here because UDP child is gone
@@ -1062,9 +1084,7 @@ sub ssl_reaper {
if ($CHILDPID == $cmdlog_svrpid) {
$cmdlog_svrpid = 0;
}
if ($CHILDPID == $pid_MON) {
$pid_MON = 0;
}
reap_install_monitor($CHILDPID);
}
$SIG{CHLD} = \&ssl_reaper;
}
@@ -1189,17 +1209,17 @@ if (!(socketpair($rescanreadpipe, $rescanwritepipe, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNS
}
$rescanrselect = new IO::Select;
$rescanrselect->add($rescanreadpipe);
$pid_MON = xCAT::Utils->xfork;
if (!defined $pid_MON) {
xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S", "Unable to fork installmonitor");
die;
}
unless ($pid_MON) {
xCAT::RespawnUtils::supervise {
$$progname = "xcatd: install monitor";
$pid_UDP = 0;
close($udpctl); $udpctl = 0;
do_installm_service;
xexit(0);
} state => \$mon_respawn, pid => \$pid_MON, now => time();
unless ($pid_MON) {
xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S", "Unable to fork installmonitor");
die;
}
# ----used for command log start---------
@@ -1463,6 +1483,39 @@ my $udpalive = 1;
until ($quit) {
$SIG{CHLD} = \&ssl_reaper; # set here to ensure that signal handler is not corrupted during loop
# Nothing else re-forks the monitor; the reaper only clears $pid_MON. The pacing never
# stops allowing an attempt, so the monitor also comes back once whatever holds
# xcatiport lets go of it.
if (!$pid_MON && !$quit && $sport && xCAT::RespawnUtils::due($mon_respawn, time())) {
if (xCAT::RespawnUtils::should_report($mon_respawn)) {
xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S",
"xcatd: install monitor is not staying up ($mon_respawn->{streak} attempts);"
. " still retrying xcatiport $sport every $mon_respawn->{max_interval} seconds");
$mon_respawn = xCAT::RespawnUtils::reported($mon_respawn);
}
xCAT::RespawnUtils::supervise {
$$progname = "xcatd: install monitor";
$pid_UDP = 0;
close($listener);
close($udpctl); $udpctl = 0;
# This fork is further down the program than the one at startup, so it also
# inherits what the parent opened since: the rescanplugins channel.
close($chreadpipe);
close($chwritepipe);
# Client sockets the parent accepted and has not dispatched yet. The monitor
# outlives the worker that serves one.
close($_) for @pendingconnections;
do_installm_service;
xexit(0);
} state => \$mon_respawn, pid => \$pid_MON, now => time();
if ($pid_MON) {
xCAT::MsgUtils->trace(0, "I",
"xcatd: re-forked install monitor (pid $pid_MON) after it exited");
} else {
xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S", "xcatd: unable to re-fork install monitor");
}
}
while ($udpalive and $udpwatcher->can_read(0)) { # take an intermission to broker some state requests from udp traffic control
eval {
my $msg = fd_retrieve($udpctl);
@@ -1487,7 +1540,9 @@ until ($quit) {
} else {
# if select returned with no ready fds, there might be udpctl broken.
if (not $bothwatcher->can_read(30)) {
# The respawn at the top of this loop only gets a turn when this select returns, so
# wait in shorter hops while the monitor is down.
if (not $bothwatcher->can_read((!$pid_MON && $sport) ? 5 : 30)) {
# if the errno is 'bad fd', check the health of the udpctl
if ($! == EBADF) {
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check:rc==0
check:output!~Error|ERROR
end
start:xcatd_install_monitor_respawns
description:a killed install monitor comes back and reclaims xcatiport, without restarting xcatd
label:mn_only,ci_test,xcatd
#the process titles are matched anchored: an unanchored "pgrep -f" also matches this
#test's own command line, and the kill below would then take out the test itself
cmd:mkdir -p /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn; pgrep -f "^xcatd: install monitor$" > /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/before.pid; test -s /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/before.pid
check:rc==0
cmd:pgrep -f "^xcatd: SSL listener$" > /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/listener.pid; test -s /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/listener.pid
check:rc==0
cmd:kill -9 $(cat /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/before.pid)
check:rc==0
#it must return on its own. the respawn floor is 5s by default, so poll well past that
cmd:for i in $(seq 1 30); do sleep 2; pgrep -f "^xcatd: install monitor$" > /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/after.pid; test -s /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/after.pid && break; done; test -s /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/after.pid
check:rc==0
cmd:test "$(cat /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/before.pid)" != "$(cat /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/after.pid)"
check:rc==0
#and it must have reclaimed the port, not merely be running again
cmd:XCATIPORT=$(lsdef -t site -i xcatiport 2>/dev/null | grep xcatiport | cut -d= -f2); XCATIPORT=${XCATIPORT:-3002}; ss -lntp | grep ":$XCATIPORT " | grep -q "pid=$(cat /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/after.pid)"
check:rc==0
#xcatd itself must not have been restarted -- surviving without a restart is the point
cmd:pgrep -f "^xcatd: SSL listener$" | diff -q - /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn/listener.pid
check:rc==0
cmd:rm -rf /tmp/xcatd_monitor_respawn
check:rc==0
#if the respawn did not happen, this MN is left with a dead xcatiport, and every later case
#in the bundle that provisions a node would fail for that reason instead of its own. a failed
#check does not stop the remaining cmds of a case, so restore the daemon unconditionally here
cmd:pgrep -f "^xcatd: install monitor$" >/dev/null || { if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] && command -v systemctl >/dev/null 2>&1; then XCATBYPASS=YES systemctl restart xcatd; else XCATBYPASS=YES service xcatd restart; fi; sleep 5; }
check:rc==0
end
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#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# Unit test for the two things xcatd itself has to get right about the install monitor --
# the child that listens on xcatiport for node install-status updates and the "next"
# boot-flip request. The pacing of the respawn is covered by xcatd_monitor_respawn.t; this
# file covers the daemon-side code that pacing depends on.
#
# 1. Every SIGCHLD handler that can be installed when the monitor dies has to account for
# the death. The monitor is forked at startup, while generic_reaper is the handler --
# ssl_reaper is only installed once the main service loop starts, and generic_reaper
# comes back whenever connections are throttled. A death reaped by a handler that does
# not clear $pid_MON leaves the daemon holding a dead pid, so the respawn in the
# service loop never runs and xcatiport stays dead for the life of the daemon.
#
# 2. The respawned monitor must not carry the parent's other descriptors. It is forked
# from the middle of the service loop, so besides the SSL listener and the udpctl
# socket it also inherits the rescanplugins channel and any client connection the
# parent has accepted but not yet handed to a worker. The monitor serves none of
# those and outlives every one of them.
#
# xcatd cannot be loaded here: it needs the database, SSL, the plugin tree and
# /var/run/xcat, and it starts serving at the bottom of the file. So the routine and the
# fork block under test are lifted out of the program text and run in a scratch package
# against stand-in handles. BAIL_OUT if a lift stops matching, so this fails loudly rather
# than quietly covering nothing.
use strict;
use warnings;
use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../perl-xCAT";
use Test::More;
use POSIX ();
use Socket;
use xCAT::RespawnUtils;
my $XCATD = "$FindBin::Bin/../../xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd";
plan skip_all => "xcatd not found at $XCATD" unless -r $XCATD;
my $src = do {
open my $fh, '<', $XCATD or BAIL_OUT("cannot read $XCATD: $!");
local $/;
<$fh>;
};
# A named sub in xcatd, from "sub name {" to the closing brace in the first column.
sub lift_sub {
my ($name) = @_;
my ($body) = $src =~ /^(sub \s+ \Q$name\E \s* \{ .*? ^ \} )/msx;
return $body;
}
# --- 1. whichever reaper is installed, a dead monitor is accounted for -------
my %reaper = map { $_ => lift_sub($_) } qw(generic_reaper ssl_reaper);
for my $name (sort keys %reaper) {
BAIL_OUT("cannot lift $name out of xcatd -- the lift needs updating")
unless $reaper{$name};
}
# reap_install_monitor is what this test asks xcatd to grow. Lift it when it is there, and
# supply a do-nothing stand-in when it is not, so the reapers still compile and the
# assertions below report a monitor death that went unnoticed -- which is the defect --
# instead of a syntax error.
my $shared = lift_sub('reap_install_monitor') || 'sub reap_install_monitor { }';
{
my $scratch = join "\n",
'package t::xcatd;',
'no strict;',
'no warnings;',
'sub yield { }',
$shared,
$reaper{generic_reaper},
$reaper{ssl_reaper},
'1;';
eval $scratch or BAIL_OUT("cannot compile the lifted reapers: $@");
}
# Fork a child, let it exit, and hand it to $reaper as the install monitor. Returns the
# pacing state the reaper left behind, or undef when it did not notice the death at all.
sub reap_a_dead_monitor {
my ($reaper) = @_;
my $pid = fork();
BAIL_OUT("cannot fork: $!") unless defined $pid;
POSIX::_exit(0) unless $pid;
my $now = time();
{
no strict 'refs';
${'t::xcatd::pid_MON'} = $pid;
${'t::xcatd::mon_respawn'} = xCAT::RespawnUtils::forked(
xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy(min_interval => 5, max_interval => 300), $now);
}
# Wait for it to be reapable, then run the handler by hand rather than through the
# signal: what is under test is what the handler does with the death, not delivery.
local $SIG{CHLD} = 'DEFAULT';
select(undef, undef, undef, 0.05) for 1 .. 4;
no strict 'refs';
&{"t::xcatd::$reaper"}();
return undef if ${'t::xcatd::pid_MON'};
return ${'t::xcatd::mon_respawn'};
}
for my $reaper (qw(generic_reaper ssl_reaper)) {
subtest "$reaper accounts for a dead install monitor" => sub {
my $pace = reap_a_dead_monitor($reaper);
ok($pace, "$reaper cleared \$pid_MON, so the service loop can re-fork the monitor")
or do {
diag("$reaper reaped the monitor and left \$pid_MON holding its pid;"
. " nothing will ever respawn it");
return;
};
ok(!defined $pace->{started_at},
'the pacing was told the monitor exited, so the next respawn is scheduled');
cmp_ok($pace->{streak}, '>', 0, 'the death counts towards the backoff');
};
}
# --- 2. the respawned monitor drops what it inherited ------------------------
# Both supervise() blocks in xcatd: the startup fork and the respawn in the service loop.
my @blocks = $src =~ /xCAT::RespawnUtils::supervise \s* \{ (.*?) ^\s* \} \s* state \s* =>/msgx;
BAIL_OUT("expected two supervise blocks in xcatd, found " . scalar(@blocks))
unless @blocks == 2;
my ($respawn) = grep { /\$listener/ } @blocks;
BAIL_OUT("cannot tell the respawn block from the startup one -- the lift needs updating")
unless $respawn;
{
my $stubs = join "\n",
'package t::monitor;',
'no strict;',
'no warnings;',
'our $served = 0;',
'sub do_installm_service { $served++ }',
'sub xexit { die "xexit\n" }',
'1;';
eval $stubs or BAIL_OUT("cannot compile the monitor stubs: $@");
my $body = "package t::monitor; no strict; no warnings; sub become_monitor { $respawn }; 1;";
eval $body or BAIL_OUT("cannot compile the lifted respawn block: $@");
}
# A connected pair of descriptors, so close() has something real to close.
sub a_socket {
socketpair(my $near, my $far, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC)
or BAIL_OUT("socketpair failed: $!");
return ($near, $far);
}
subtest 'a respawned monitor keeps none of the descriptors it inherited' => sub {
my %handle;
my @keep;
for my $name (qw(listener udpctl chreadpipe chwritepipe)) {
my ($near, $far) = a_socket();
$handle{$name} = $near;
push @keep, $far;
}
my @pending;
for (1 .. 3) {
my ($near, $far) = a_socket();
push @pending, $near;
push @keep, $far;
}
{
no strict 'refs';
${"t::monitor::$_"} = $handle{$_} for keys %handle;
${'t::monitor::progname'} = \(my $title = 'xcatd');
${'t::monitor::pid_UDP'} = 4242;
@{'t::monitor::pendingconnections'} = @pending;
}
$t::monitor::served = 0;
eval { t::monitor::become_monitor(); 1 };
my $left = $@;
is($left, "xexit\n", 'the block ran to the end and left through xexit');
cmp_ok($t::monitor::served, '==', 1, 'and it entered do_installm_service on the way');
for my $name (sort keys %handle) {
ok(!defined fileno($handle{$name}), "the monitor closed the inherited $name");
}
my @open = grep { defined fileno($pending[$_]) } 0 .. $#pending;
is_deeply(\@open, [],
'the monitor closed the connections the parent had accepted but not yet dispatched')
or diag("a client socket the monitor holds stays open for the life of the daemon,"
. " long after the worker that served it has gone");
no strict 'refs';
is(${'t::monitor::pid_UDP'}, 0, 'and it no longer believes it owns the udp child');
close($_) for @keep;
};
done_testing();
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#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# Unit test for the pacing that keeps xcatd's install monitor alive -- the child that
# listens on xcatiport for node install-status updates and the "next" boot-flip request.
#
# The monitor used to be forked exactly once at daemon startup. When it died the SIGCHLD
# reaper only cleared $pid_MON and nothing re-forked it, so a single death of that child
# (a stray signal, or a lost socket takeover during an xcatd restart) left xcatiport dead
# while the main daemon kept running: installing nodes could no longer report booted or
# request the boot flip until the WHOLE daemon was restarted.
#
# Respawning has to be paced -- do_installm_service dies when it cannot bind the port, so
# while something else holds xcatiport every respawn is a fast, futile fork that also
# re-enters that function's USR2 socket-takeover handshake. But pacing must never become
# giving up: a retry budget that runs out cannot be refilled, because with no monitor
# alive nothing is left to reset it. The port would then stay dead until xcatd is
# restarted -- exactly the failure the respawn exists to remove, just reached more slowly.
#
# So the property under test is: the monitor comes back on its OWN, at a bounded rate, no
# matter how long it has been failing. xcatd cannot be run in a unit test (it needs the
# database, SSL, the plugin tree and /var/run/xcat), so the pacing lives in
# xCAT::RespawnUtils as pure functions -- given a state and a time they return the next
# state, touching no clock and no globals. This drives those functions directly: first
# over a virtual clock, for the schedule and the never-give-up property, and then for real
# against a genuinely held TCP port -- fail several times, release the port, and require
# that the monitor recovers by itself.
use strict;
use warnings;
use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../perl-xCAT";
use Test::More;
use POSIX qw(WNOHANG);
use IO::Socket::INET;
use xCAT::RespawnUtils; # `use`, not `require`: the (&@) prototype must be known at compile time
# Every monitor stand-in forked below is registered here, so a failed assertion that
# returns early out of the fork test cannot leave one sleeping on the port. The children
# leave via POSIX::_exit, which skips this block, so only the parent ever runs it.
my @spawned;
END { kill 'TERM', grep { $_ } @spawned if @spawned; }
sub due { return xCAT::RespawnUtils::due(@_) }
sub forked { return xCAT::RespawnUtils::forked(@_) }
sub exited { return xCAT::RespawnUtils::exited(@_) }
sub should_rept { return xCAT::RespawnUtils::should_report(@_) }
sub mark_rept { return xCAT::RespawnUtils::reported(@_) }
# Drive the pacing over a virtual clock in which every monitor dies the instant it is
# forked -- i.e. the port stays held for the whole window. Returns the times a respawn was
# allowed, which is the schedule the daemon would actually fork on.
sub attempts_while_failing {
my ( $pace, $seconds ) = @_;
my @at;
for my $now ( 0 .. $seconds ) {
next unless due( $pace, $now );
push @at, $now;
$pace = forked( $pace, $now );
$pace = exited( $pace, $now ); # could not bind: died at once
}
return @at;
}
sub gaps_between {
my (@at) = @_;
return map { $at[$_] - $at[ $_ - 1 ] } 1 .. $#at;
}
# --- the softlock the review caught -----------------------------------------
subtest 'a monitor that keeps failing is still being retried much later' => sub {
my $pace = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy(
min_interval => 1,
max_interval => 4,
healthy => 60,
);
my @at = attempts_while_failing( $pace, 10_000 );
cmp_ok( scalar(@at), '>', 100,
'the daemon is still forking monitors after ~3 hours of continuous failure' );
cmp_ok( $at[-1], '>=', 9_990,
'the last attempt is at the END of the window -- retrying never stopped' );
# ...and it is still paced while doing so: at the 4s ceiling the window admits ~2500
# attempts, where an unpaced loop would fork as fast as fork() returns.
cmp_ok( scalar(@at), '<=', 10_000 / 4 + 5,
'attempts stay spaced by the ceiling rather than becoming a fork storm' );
};
# --- the shape of the pacing ------------------------------------------------
subtest 'the delay doubles from the minimum up to a ceiling and stays there' => sub {
my $pace = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy(
min_interval => 1,
max_interval => 8,
healthy => 60,
);
my @gaps = gaps_between( attempts_while_failing( $pace, 200 ) );
is_deeply( [ @gaps[ 0 .. 5 ] ], [ 1, 2, 4, 8, 8, 8 ],
'gaps back off 1,2,4,8 then hold at the 8s ceiling' );
is( scalar( grep { $_ > 8 } @gaps ), 0, 'no gap ever exceeds the ceiling' );
};
subtest 'a policy cannot be built with a delay that fails to back off' => sub {
my $zero = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy( min_interval => 0, max_interval => 300 );
cmp_ok( $zero->{min_interval}, '>=', 1,
'a zero minimum is raised -- 0 doubles to 0, which is a fork storm' );
my $inverted = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy( min_interval => 60, max_interval => 5 );
cmp_ok( $inverted->{max_interval}, '>=', $inverted->{min_interval},
'a ceiling below the floor is raised to it' );
my $default = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy();
is( $default->{min_interval}, 5, 'unset options fall back to the default floor' );
is( $default->{max_interval}, 300, '...and the default ceiling' );
is( $default->{healthy}, 60, '...and the default healthy uptime' );
# These arrive straight from %ENV, so they can be empty or misspelt. xcatd runs under
# use warnings: comparing a non-numeric one would put "Argument isn't numeric" in the
# daemon log on every start. Anything that is not a plain non-negative integer is
# treated as unset.
my @warnings;
local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { push @warnings, @_ };
for my $junk ( '', 'abc', '-5', '3.5' ) {
is( xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy( min_interval => $junk )->{min_interval}, 5,
"a min_interval of '$junk' falls back to the default" );
}
is( xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy( min_interval => ' 7 ' )->{min_interval}, 7,
'a padded value is still read as a number' );
is_deeply( \@warnings, [], 'no tunable produces a Perl warning' );
};
subtest 'hitting the ceiling is reported once per failure streak' => sub {
my $pace = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy(
min_interval => 1,
max_interval => 4,
healthy => 60,
);
my $reports = 0;
for my $now ( 0 .. 100 ) {
next unless due( $pace, $now );
if ( should_rept($pace) ) { $reports++; $pace = mark_rept($pace); }
$pace = forked( $pace, $now );
$pace = exited( $pace, $now );
}
is( $reports, 1, 'a monitor that cannot start is logged once, not on every attempt' );
};
# --- recovery, on the virtual clock -----------------------------------------
subtest 'a monitor that served resets the backoff when it later dies' => sub {
my $pace = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy(
min_interval => 1,
max_interval => 8,
healthy => 60,
);
# burn the backoff up to the ceiling against a held port
for my $now ( 0 .. 20 ) {
next unless due( $pace, $now );
$pace = exited( forked( $pace, $now ), $now );
}
is( $pace->{delay}, 8, 'the backoff is sitting at the ceiling' );
# then one gets the socket and serves for two minutes before dying
$pace = forked( $pace, 100 );
$pace = exited( $pace, 220 );
ok( due( $pace, 220 ),
'the death of a healthy monitor is retried at once, not after the old backoff' );
is( $pace->{streak}, 0, 'the failure streak is cleared by a monitor that served' );
# and the streak starts over from the minimum rather than from the ceiling
$pace = exited( forked( $pace, 220 ), 220 );
ok( !due( $pace, 220 ), 'the retry after that is paced again' );
ok( due( $pace, 221 ), '...by the minimum interval, not by the old ceiling' );
};
subtest 'the pacing functions are pure' => sub {
my $pace = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy( min_interval => 1, max_interval => 8 );
my %before = %$pace;
my $after = exited( forked( $pace, 10 ), 11 );
is_deeply( $pace, \%before, 'exited()/forked() leave the state they were given alone' );
isnt( $after, $pace, 'they return a new state rather than the same reference' );
is( due( $pace, 0 ), due( $pace, 0 ), 'due() is free of side effects' );
# Each of the two has to be checked on a state it was handed DIRECTLY. Composing them as
# exited(forked($pace,...)) only ever lets exited() mutate forked()'s throwaway
# intermediate, so an exited() that wrote in place would leave $pace untouched and the
# assertion above green.
my $only_forked = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy( min_interval => 1, max_interval => 8 );
my %before_forked = %$only_forked;
my $forked_out = forked( $only_forked, 10 );
is_deeply( $only_forked, \%before_forked,
'forked() alone leaves the state it was given alone' );
isnt( $forked_out, $only_forked, 'forked() returns a new state' );
my $only_exited = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy( min_interval => 1, max_interval => 8 );
my %before_exited = %$only_exited;
my $exited_out = exited( $only_exited, 5 );
is_deeply( $only_exited, \%before_exited,
'exited() alone leaves the state it was given alone' );
isnt( $exited_out, $only_exited, 'exited() returns a new state' );
};
# --- the window the reaper looks through ------------------------------------
# The reaper matches the dead child against xcatd's $pid_MON and folds the death into the
# pacing state. Both therefore have to be in place before SIGCHLD is let back in: a child that
# died while the fork was in flight would otherwise be compared against a pid still holding 0,
# missed, and the caller would then write a dead pid back over the reaper's work -- believing a
# dead monitor alive, and never respawning it. That is the whole failure this file is about,
# reached through the respawn instead of through startup.
#
# Racing a real death into that window is not something a test can arrange reliably, so this
# arranges a certainty instead: a SIGCHLD is made pending BEFORE supervise() is called (a decoy
# child that exits while the signal is blocked). The handler is then guaranteed to run the
# moment supervise() unblocks -- inside supervise(), before it has returned to us -- and what it
# sees there is exactly what the real reaper would see.
subtest 'the pid and the pacing are in place before SIGCHLD is let back in' => sub {
my $pace = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy( min_interval => 1, max_interval => 2, healthy => 60 );
my $mon_pid = 0;
my ( $ran, $pid_seen, $started_at_seen );
local $SIG{CHLD} = sub {
$ran++;
$pid_seen = $mon_pid;
$started_at_seen = $pace->{started_at};
};
my $mask = POSIX::SigSet->new( POSIX::SIGCHLD );
POSIX::sigprocmask( POSIX::SIG_BLOCK, $mask );
my $decoy = fork();
POSIX::_exit(0) if defined($decoy) && !$decoy;
unless ($decoy) {
POSIX::sigprocmask( POSIX::SIG_UNBLOCK, $mask );
plan skip_all => "cannot fork here: $!";
}
select( undef, undef, undef, 0.2 ); # it is gone, and its SIGCHLD is pending, not delivered
xCAT::RespawnUtils::supervise {
sleep 3600; # a monitor that stays up; this one is about the parent
}
state => \$pace, pid => \$mon_pid, now => time();
push @spawned, $mon_pid if $mon_pid;
ok( $ran, 'the pending SIGCHLD was delivered while supervise() was still running' );
ok( $mon_pid, 'supervise() forked' );
is( $pid_seen, $mon_pid,
'a reaper running at the unblock sees the live pid, not the stale 0 it would miss' );
ok( defined $started_at_seen,
'...and a pacing state that already knows a child was forked' );
if ($mon_pid) {
kill 'TERM', $mon_pid;
waitpid( $mon_pid, 0 );
@spawned = grep { $_ != $mon_pid } @spawned;
}
waitpid( $decoy, 0 );
POSIX::sigprocmask( POSIX::SIG_UNBLOCK, $mask );
};
# --- the real thing: fail several times, release the port, recover ----------
subtest 'the monitor comes back on its own once the port is released' => sub {
my $holder = IO::Socket::INET->new(
LocalAddr => '127.0.0.1',
LocalPort => 0,
Proto => 'tcp',
ReuseAddr => 1,
Listen => 8,
);
plan skip_all => "cannot bind a loopback port here: $!" unless $holder;
my $port = $holder->sockport;
my $healthy = 2;
# The ceiling is well above the promptness the last assertion asks for, on purpose: with a
# ceiling of 2 that assertion could not fail, since a backoff pinned at the ceiling would
# still land inside it, and dropping the healthy-run reset from exited() would leave the
# subtest green. At 8 the reset is the only thing that can produce a prompt respawn.
my $ceiling = 8;
my $pace = xCAT::RespawnUtils::policy(
min_interval => 1,
max_interval => $ceiling,
healthy => $healthy,
);
my ( $mon_pid, $mon_forked_at ) = ( 0, 0 );
my ( @forks, @deaths );
# One turn of the daemon's service loop: reap the monitor if it died, then re-fork it
# if the pacing says a respawn is due. The child stands in for do_installm_service:
# the part of it the pacing reacts to is that it binds xcatiport or dies, and the rest
# needs the whole daemon to run at all.
my $pump = sub {
if ($mon_pid) {
if ( waitpid( $mon_pid, WNOHANG ) == $mon_pid ) {
@spawned = grep { $_ != $mon_pid } @spawned; # reaped: not ours to signal
push @deaths, [ $mon_pid, $mon_forked_at, time() ];
$pace = exited( $pace, time() );
$mon_pid = 0;
}
}
if ( !$mon_pid && due( $pace, time() ) ) {
my $now = time();
# Driven through supervise() -- the same call xcatd makes -- so this exercises the
# real fork-and-account sequence rather than a copy of it here.
xCAT::RespawnUtils::supervise {
close($holder) if $holder; # never hold the port from inside a child
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
LocalAddr => '127.0.0.1',
LocalPort => $port,
Proto => 'tcp',
ReuseAddr => 1,
Listen => 8,
);
POSIX::_exit(1) unless $sock; # could not bind: died, as the real one does
sleep 3600; # bound the port and serve
}
state => \$pace, pid => \$mon_pid, now => $now;
die "supervise did not fork" unless $mon_pid;
$mon_forked_at = $now;
push @forks, $now;
push @spawned, $mon_pid;
}
select( undef, undef, undef, 0.05 );
};
# This subtest is the one place in the file that depends on real elapsed time. It
# normally finishes in well under ten seconds; the deadline is a runaway guard, not a
# timing assertion. Say so when it fires, so a loaded runner reports a timeout rather
# than an assertion that looks like a logic failure.
my $deadline = time() + 60;
my $timed_out = sub { time() >= $deadline };
# (1) the port is held: monitors must fail repeatedly, without a fork storm
$pump->() while ( @deaths < 3 && !$timed_out->() );
if ( $timed_out->() && @deaths < 3 ) {
diag( "timed out waiting for three failed monitors (got "
. scalar(@deaths) . "); the runner is too loaded for this subtest" );
}
cmp_ok( scalar(@deaths), '>=', 3,
'the monitor is retried several times while the port is held' )
or return;
cmp_ok( scalar(@forks), '<=', 12,
'those retries are paced by the backoff, not forked as fast as fork() returns' );
is( scalar( grep { $_->[2] - $_->[1] >= $healthy } @deaths ), 0,
'every monitor so far died young -- none of them got the socket' );
# (2) release the port -- nothing else changes, the daemon is not restarted
my $released = time();
close($holder);
undef $holder;
# (3) it must recover by itself
$pump->()
while ( !( $mon_pid && time() - $mon_forked_at >= $healthy + 1 )
&& !$timed_out->() );
diag("timed out waiting for the monitor to reclaim the freed port")
if $timed_out->() && !$mon_pid;
ok( $mon_pid && time() - $mon_forked_at >= $healthy + 1,
'a respawned monitor binds the freed port and stays up -- no xcatd restart' )
or return;
cmp_ok( $mon_forked_at - $released, '<=', $ceiling + 1,
'recovery lands within the backoff ceiling of the port becoming free' );
# (4) and after that healthy run the pacing is back to prompt
my $forks_before = scalar(@forks);
kill 'TERM', $mon_pid;
$pump->() while ( @forks == $forks_before && !$timed_out->() );
cmp_ok( scalar(@forks), '>', $forks_before,
'killing the healthy monitor gets it replaced again' );
cmp_ok( $deaths[-1][2] - $deaths[-1][1], '>=', $healthy,
'the monitor that was killed had been up long enough to count as having served' );
cmp_ok( $forks[-1] - $deaths[-1][2], '<=', 2,
'that replacement is prompt: the healthy run reset the backoff off its ceiling' );
if ($mon_pid) {
kill 'TERM', $mon_pid;
waitpid( $mon_pid, 0 );
@spawned = grep { $_ != $mon_pid } @spawned;
}
};
done_testing();