The original RDB serialization format was not parsable without the
module loaded, becuase the structure was managed only by the module
itself. Moreover RDB is a streaming protocol in the sense that it is
both produce di an append-only fashion, and is also sometimes directly
sent to the socket (in the case of diskless replication).
The fact that modules values cannot be parsed without the relevant
module loaded is a problem in many ways: RDB checking tools must have
loaded modules even for doing things not involving the value at all,
like splitting an RDB into N RDBs by key or alike, or just checking the
RDB for sanity.
In theory module values could be just a blob of data with a prefixed
length in order for us to be able to skip it. However prefixing the values
with a length would mean one of the following:
1. To be able to write some data at a previous offset. This breaks
stremaing.
2. To bufferize values before outputting them. This breaks performances.
3. To have some chunked RDB output format. This breaks simplicity.
Moreover, the above solution, still makes module values a totally opaque
matter, with the fowllowing problems:
1. The RDB check tool can just skip the value without being able to at
least check the general structure. For datasets composed mostly of
modules values this means to just check the outer level of the RDB not
actually doing any checko on most of the data itself.
2. It is not possible to do any recovering or processing of data for which a
module no longer exists in the future, or is unknown.
So this commit implements a different solution. The modules RDB
serialization API is composed if well defined calls to store integers,
floats, doubles or strings. After this commit, the parts generated by
the module API have a one-byte prefix for each of the above emitted
parts, and there is a final EOF byte as well. So even if we don't know
exactly how to interpret a module value, we can always parse it at an
high level, check the overall structure, understand the types used to
store the information, and easily skip the whole value.
The change is backward compatible: older RDB files can be still loaded
since the new encoding has a new RDB type: MODULE_2 (of value 7).
The commit also implements the ability to check RDB files for sanity
taking advantage of the new feature.
It looks safer to return C_OK from freeMemoryIfNeeded() when clients are
paused because returning C_ERR may prevent success of writes. It is
possible that there is no difference in practice since clients cannot
execute writes while clients are paused, but it looks more correct this
way, at least conceptually.
Related to PR #4028.
1. brpop last key index, thus checking all keys for slots.
2. Memory leak in clusterRedirectBlockedClientIfNeeded.
3. Remove while loop in clusterRedirectBlockedClientIfNeeded.
This avoids Helgrind complaining, but we are actually not using
atomicGet() to get the unixtime value for now: too many places where it
is used and given tha time_t is word-sized it should be safe in all the
archs we support as it is.
On the other hand, Helgrind, when Redis is compiled with "make helgrind"
in order to force the __sync macros, will detect the write in
updateCachedTime() as a read (because atomic functions are used) and
will not complain about races.
This commit also includes minor refactoring of mutex initializations and
a "helgrind" target in the Makefile.
The __sync builtin can be correctly detected by Helgrind so to force it
is useful for testing. The API in the INFO output can be useful for
debugging after problems are reported.
Instead of giving the module background operations just a small time to
run in the beforeSleep() function, we can have the lock released for all
the time we are blocked in the multiplexing syscall.
