Add simple test of pageserver recovery after crash.

.circleci/config.yml

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ jobs:
             export RUSTC_WRAPPER=cachepot
             export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="${CACHEPOT_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}"
             export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="${CACHEPOT_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}"
-            "${cov_prefix[@]}" mold -run cargo build $CARGO_FLAGS --bins --tests
+            "${cov_prefix[@]}" mold -run cargo build $CARGO_FLAGS --features failpoints --bins --tests
             cachepot -s
 
       - save_cache:

pageserver/src/bin/pageserver.rs

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use anyhow::{bail, Context, Result};
 use clap::{App, Arg};
 use daemonize::Daemonize;
 
+use fail::FailScenario;
 use pageserver::{
     config::{defaults::*, PageServerConf},
     http, page_cache, page_service, profiling, tenant_mgr, thread_mgr,
@@ -84,8 +85,23 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                 .help("Additional configuration overrides of the ones from the toml config file (or new ones to add there).
                 Any option has to be a valid toml document, example: `-c=\"foo='hey'\"` `-c=\"foo={value=1}\"`"),
         )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("enabled-features")
+                .long("enabled-features")
+                .takes_value(false)
+                .help("Show enabled compile time features"),
+        )
         .get_matches();
 
+    if arg_matches.is_present("enabled-features") {
+        let features: &[&str] = &[
+            #[cfg(feature = "failpoints")]
+            "failpoints",
+        ];
+        println!("{{\"features\": {features:?} }}");
+        return Ok(());
+    }
+
     let workdir = Path::new(arg_matches.value_of("workdir").unwrap_or(".zenith"));
     let workdir = workdir
         .canonicalize()
@@ -166,6 +182,14 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     // as a ref.
     let conf: &'static PageServerConf = Box::leak(Box::new(conf));
 
+    // If failpoints are used, terminate the whole pageserver process if they are hit.
+    let scenario = FailScenario::setup();
+    if fail::has_failpoints() {
+        std::panic::set_hook(Box::new(|_| {
+            std::process::exit(1);
+        }));
+    }
+
     // Basic initialization of things that don't change after startup
     virtual_file::init(conf.max_file_descriptors);
     page_cache::init(conf.page_cache_size);
@@ -181,10 +205,12 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                 cfg_file_path.display()
             )
         })?;
-        Ok(())
     } else {
-        start_pageserver(conf, daemonize).context("Failed to start pageserver")
+        start_pageserver(conf, daemonize).context("Failed to start pageserver")?;
     }
+
+    scenario.teardown();
+    Ok(())
 }
 
 fn start_pageserver(conf: &'static PageServerConf, daemonize: bool) -> Result<()> {

pageserver/src/layered_repository.rs

@@ -1703,6 +1703,7 @@ impl LayeredTimeline {
             new_delta_path.clone(),
             self.conf.timeline_path(&self.timelineid, &self.tenantid),
         ])?;
+        fail_point!("checkpoint-before-sync");
 
         fail_point!("flush-frozen");
 
@@ -1727,6 +1728,7 @@ impl LayeredTimeline {
         // TODO: This perhaps should be done in 'flush_frozen_layers', after flushing
         // *all* the layers, to avoid fsyncing the file multiple times.
         let disk_consistent_lsn = Lsn(frozen_layer.get_lsn_range().end.0 - 1);
+        fail_point!("checkpoint-after-sync");
 
         // If we were able to advance 'disk_consistent_lsn', save it the metadata file.
         // After crash, we will restart WAL streaming and processing from that point.

test_runner/batch_others/test_recovery.py

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import os
+import time
+import psycopg2.extras
+import json
+from ast import Assert
+from contextlib import closing
+from fixtures.zenith_fixtures import ZenithEnvBuilder
+from fixtures.log_helper import log
+
+
+#
+# Test pageserver recovery after crash
+#
+def test_pageserver_recovery(zenith_env_builder: ZenithEnvBuilder):
+    zenith_env_builder.num_safekeepers = 1
+    # Override default checkpointer settings to run it more often
+    zenith_env_builder.pageserver_config_override = "tenant_config={checkpoint_distance = 1048576}"
+
+    env = zenith_env_builder.init()
+
+    # Check if failpoints enables. Otherwise the test doesn't make sense
+    f = env.zenith_cli.pageserver_enabled_features()
+
+    assert "failpoints" in f["features"], "Build pageserver with --features=failpoints option to run this test"
+    zenith_env_builder.start()
+
+    # Create a branch for us
+    env.zenith_cli.create_branch("test_pageserver_recovery", "main")
+
+    pg = env.postgres.create_start('test_pageserver_recovery')
+    log.info("postgres is running on 'test_pageserver_recovery' branch")
+
+    connstr = pg.connstr()
+
+    with closing(pg.connect()) as conn:
+        with conn.cursor() as cur:
+            with closing(env.pageserver.connect()) as psconn:
+                with psconn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor) as pscur:
+                    # Create and initialize test table
+                    cur.execute("CREATE TABLE foo(x bigint)")
+                    cur.execute("INSERT INTO foo VALUES (generate_series(1,100000))")
+
+                    # Sleep for some time to let checkpoint create image layers
+                    time.sleep(2)
+
+                    # Configure failpoints
+                    pscur.execute(
+                        "failpoints checkpoint-before-sync=sleep(2000);checkpoint-after-sync=panic")
+
+                    # Do some updates until pageserver is crashed
+                    try:
+                        while True:
+                            cur.execute("update foo set x=x+1")
+                    except Exception as err:
+                        log.info(f"Excepted server crash {err}")
+
+    log.info("Wait before server restart")
+    env.pageserver.stop()
+    env.pageserver.start()
+
+    with closing(pg.connect()) as conn:
+        with conn.cursor() as cur:
+            cur.execute("select count(*) from foo")
+            assert cur.fetchone() == (100000, )

test_runner/fixtures/zenith_fixtures.py

@@ -980,6 +980,19 @@ def init(self,
             res.check_returncode()
             return res
 
+    def pageserver_enabled_features(self) -> Any:
+        bin_pageserver = os.path.join(str(zenith_binpath), 'pageserver')
+        args = [bin_pageserver, '--enabled-features']
+        log.info('Running command "{}"'.format(' '.join(args)))
+
+        res = subprocess.run(args,
+                             check=True,
+                             universal_newlines=True,
+                             stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                             stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+        log.info(f"pageserver_enabled_features success: {res.stdout}")
+        return json.loads(res.stdout)
+
     def pageserver_start(self, overrides=()) -> 'subprocess.CompletedProcess[str]':
         start_args = ['pageserver', 'start', *overrides]
         append_pageserver_param_overrides(start_args,