Fix valkey-benchmark hang in showReport() percentile iteration - #4585
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR prevents valkey-benchmark from hanging, but the warmup transition can still mismatch request counts with latency samples, and instantaneous latency data can be corrupted by a concurrent reset; allocation failure may also leave warmup data in results. These bounded accuracy risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BenchmarkThread
participant WarmupState
participant LatencyHistogram
BenchmarkThread->>WarmupState: claim warmup transition
BenchmarkThread->>LatencyHistogram: atomically swap histogram
BenchmarkThread->>WarmupState: publish reset state
BenchmarkThread->>LatencyHistogram: finish recording on loaded histogram
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participant HistogramIterator
participant CountsArray
participant ReportLoop
HistogramIterator->>CountsArray: scan bucket counts
CountsArray-->>HistogramIterator: return recorded buckets or array end
HistogramIterator->>ReportLoop: report recorded value
HistogramIterator-->>ReportLoop: terminate at array end
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In `@src/unit/test_hdr_histogram.cpp`:
- Around line 55-58: Update the percentile-iterator test around hdr_iter_next to
capture the last reported percentile and verify that the zeroed-bucket corrupt
histogram produces exactly one result at 100.0 percentile before iteration
terminates; retain the max-iteration guard to detect nontermination.
In `@src/valkey-benchmark.c`:
- Line 2164: Update the warmup transition in showThroughput() and its checks in
readHandler() so the warmup gate remains active until hdr_reset() and
request-counter resets complete. Use a separate atomic transition claim to
serialize reset ownership, then publish the post-reset state with release
ordering and load it with acquire ordering, preventing histogram updates from
racing with reset.
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Assert the corrupt-histogram result.
ASSERT_LT(iterations, max_iterations) also passes if hdr_iter_next() returns false on its first call. Capture the last reported percentile and assert that this zeroed-bucket state emits exactly one 100.0-percentile result before termination.
Proposed test update
const int max_iterations = 1000;
int iterations = 0;
+ double last_percentile = 0.0;
while (hdr_iter_next(&iter)) {
+ last_percentile = iter.specifics.percentiles.percentile;
if (++iterations >= max_iterations) break;
}
ASSERT_LT(iterations, max_iterations) << "percentile iterator failed to terminate";
+ ASSERT_EQ(iterations, 1);
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| while (hdr_iter_next(&iter)) { | |
| if (++iterations >= max_iterations) break; | |
| } | |
| ASSERT_LT(iterations, max_iterations) << "percentile iterator failed to terminate"; | |
| double last_percentile = 0.0; | |
| while (hdr_iter_next(&iter)) { | |
| last_percentile = iter.specifics.percentiles.percentile; | |
| if (++iterations >= max_iterations) break; | |
| } | |
| ASSERT_LT(iterations, max_iterations) << "percentile iterator failed to terminate"; | |
| ASSERT_EQ(iterations, 1); | |
| ASSERT_DOUBLE_EQ(last_percentile, 100.0); |
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In `@src/unit/test_hdr_histogram.cpp` around lines 55 - 58, Update the
percentile-iterator test around hdr_iter_next to capture the last reported
percentile and verify that the zeroed-bucket corrupt histogram produces exactly
one result at 100.0 percentile before iteration terminates; retain the
max-iteration guard to detect nontermination.
valkey-benchmark can hang forever at 100 % CPU *after* a test has
finished measuring, spinning inside the latency report. The measured run
completes, the final progress line is written, and then the process
never returns and prints nothing further. I hit it twice in roughly 40
benchmark cells; one cell that should have taken 25 s sat spinning for
26 minutes before I killed it.
#0 percentile_iter_next
valkey-io#1 showReport
valkey-io#2 benchmarkSequence
valkey-io#3 main
Cause
-----
showThroughput() is registered on a timer in every benchmark thread, and
at the end of the warmup period it called hdr_reset() on the shared
latency histogram while the other threads were still recording into it
through hdr_record_value_atomic(). hdr_reset() is a plain store followed
by a memset and the recorders increment the bucket and total_count as
two separate atomic operations, so an increment to total_count can
survive while the bucket it incremented is zeroed. The histogram is then
left with total_count greater than the sum of its counts.
That state is terminal for the report iterators, because has_next()
compares the running cumulative count against a snapshot of total_count
taken at iterator init, so it never becomes false.
Fix
---
src/valkey-benchmark.c stops resetting a histogram that other threads
are writing to. A second histogram is allocated up front when a warmup
period is configured, and the warmup transition swaps it in instead of
clearing the live one. A thread still holding the previous pointer
records into the retired warmup histogram, whose samples are discarded
anyway, so no sample is ever written to storage that is being cleared.
The transition is claimed with a dedicated flag rather than by clearing
current_warmup_duration, because that value is also the gate which lets
the recording threads write to the histogram: it now stays non-zero
until config.start, the request counters and the histogram pointer have
all been published, and is released last so that any thread observing
the gate closed also observes everything reset behind it.
config.start becomes _Atomic. It was a plain long long written by the
thread performing the transition and read concurrently by every other
thread from isBenchmarkFinished() on the reply path. ThreadSanitizer
reports the race on the previous code and is clean on this one.
deps/hdr_histogram/hdr_histogram.c bounds the iterators by the end of
the counts array. percentile_iter_next(), iter_linear_next() and
log_iter_next() were all gated only by has_next(), so on an inconsistent
histogram each of them returns true forever while move_next() walks
counts_index past the end of the array without bound. showReport()
iterates twice, and LATENCY HISTOGRAM uses the logarithmic iterator, so
guarding only the percentile iterator would have moved the hang rather
than removed it. The percentile iterator also no longer reports a final
row once its scan is exhausted: the value it would publish is the
largest representable value left behind by that scan, not one that was
recorded.
Tests
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src/unit/test_hdr_histogram.cpp covers all three iterators on the state
a torn reset leaves behind, under bounded loops so that a regression
fails an assertion rather than hanging the suite, plus the matching
well-formed cases so the guards cannot cut a good histogram short. The
termination tests fail before this change and pass after it.
Verified with ThreadSanitizer over repeated multi-threaded --warmup runs
(races before, none after), a randomized differential over 400
well-formed histograms confirming all four iterators produce
byte-identical output to upstream, valgrind showing no leak from the
second allocation, the gtest suite, and integration/valkey-benchmark.
Known remaining issue
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hdr_reset(config.current_sec_latency_histogram) at the end of
showThroughput() is reached only by thread 0, but other threads still
record into that histogram concurrently, so the same torn-reset race
remains there. It cannot hang, because that histogram is only consumed
through hdr_mean() and the iterators are now bounded, but it can skew
the instantaneous average. Fixing it properly means per-thread
histograms merged at report time, which is out of scope here.
Fixes valkey-io#4583
Signed-off-by: Arcadiy Ivanov <arcadiy@ivanov.biz>
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Fixes #4583.
valkey-benchmarkcan hang forever at 100 % CPU after a test has finished measuring, spinning inside the latency report. The measured run completes, the final progress line is written, and then the process never returns and prints nothing further. I hit it twice in roughly 40 benchmark cells; one cell that should have taken 25 s sat spinning for 26 minutes before I killed it.Cause
showThroughput()is registered on a timer in every benchmark thread (src/valkey-benchmark.c:1367), and at the end of the warmup period it calledhdr_reset()on the shared latency histogram while the other threads were still recording into it throughhdr_record_value_atomic().hdr_reset()is a plain store followed by amemset, and the recorders increment the bucket andtotal_countas two separate atomic operations, so an increment tototal_countcan survive while the bucket it incremented is zeroed. The histogram is then left withtotal_count > sum(counts).That state is terminal for the report iterators, because
has_next()compares the running cumulative count against a snapshot oftotal_counttaken at iterator init, so it never becomes false.Fix
Stop resetting a histogram that other threads are writing to. A second histogram is allocated up front when a warmup period is configured, and the warmup transition swaps it in instead of clearing the live one. A thread still holding the previous pointer records into the retired warmup histogram, whose samples are discarded anyway, so no sample is ever written to storage that is being cleared. Electing a single resetter would not have been enough: the corruption comes from the reset racing the recorders, not from two threads both resetting.
Claim the transition with a dedicated flag rather than by clearing
current_warmup_duration, because that value is also the gate which lets the recording threads write to the histogram. It now stays non-zero untilconfig.start, the request counters and the histogram pointer have all been published, and is released last, so any thread that observes the gate closed also observes everything reset behind it.config.startbecomes_Atomic. It was a plainlong long, written by the thread performing the transition and read concurrently by every other thread fromisBenchmarkFinished()on the reply path. ThreadSanitizer reports this race on the previous code and is clean on this one.Bound the histogram iterators by the end of the counts array.
percentile_iter_next(),iter_linear_next()andlog_iter_next()were all gated only byhas_next(), so on an inconsistent histogram each of them returnstrueforever whilemove_next()walkscounts_indexpast the end of the array without bound.showReport()iterates twice — percentile atsrc/valkey-benchmark.c:1234and linear at:1248— andLATENCY HISTOGRAMuses the logarithmic iterator throughsrc/latency.c:515, so guarding only the percentile iterator would have moved the hang rather than removed it. The percentile iterator also no longer reports a final row once its scan is exhausted: the value it would publish is the largest representable value left behind by that scan, printed as100.000% <= 4194.303 milliseconds, rather than one that was actually recorded.deps/README.mdrecords the local modification so a future re-vendor of HdrHistogram_c does not silently drop it. Upstream is still affected.Tests
src/unit/test_hdr_histogram.cppcovers all three iterators against the state a torn reset leaves behind, under bounded loops so that a regression fails an assertion rather than hanging the suite, plus the matching well-formed cases so the guards cannot cut a good histogram short. The termination tests fail before this change (they hit the iteration cap,100000 vs 100000) and pass after it; the no-fabrication test fails with4194303 vs 11007.Verified locally:
--warmup --durationruns: 4 data races before, 0 after. All four wereconfig.start— write inshowThroughput()against a read inisBenchmarkFinished()reached fromreadHandler().valgrind --leak-check=fullclean on both the swap path and the no-warmup path, confirming the second allocation is released and nothing is freed twice.integration/valkey-benchmark: 40/40.--durationand--csv, with the reported cumulative count matching the request count exactly in each case.Known remaining issue
hdr_reset(config.current_sec_latency_histogram)at the end ofshowThroughput()is reached only by thread 0, but other threads still record into that histogram concurrently, so the same torn-reset race remains there. It cannot hang, because that histogram is only consumed throughhdr_mean()and the iterators are now bounded, but it can skew the instantaneous average. Fixing it properly means per-thread histograms merged at report time, which felt out of scope here.