[ClusterLabs Developers] OCF_RESKEY_CRM_meta_notify_active_* always empty

Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais jgdr at dalibo.com
Tue Aug 2 04:10:32 EDT 2016


Le Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:00:24 -0500,
Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> a écrit :

> On 08/01/2016 11:18 AM, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:
> > Le Mon, 1 Aug 2016 10:27:53 -0500,
> > Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> a écrit :
> > 
> >> On 07/29/2016 06:19 PM, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> >>> Urgh. I must be confused with sles11. 
> >>> In any case, the first version of pacemaker was identical to the last
> >>> heartbeat crm. 
> >>>
> >>> I don't recall the ocfs2 agent changing design while I was there, so 11
> >>> may be broken too
> >>
> >> I just realized *_active_* is only broken for master/slave clones.
> >> Filesystem is not master/slave, so it wouldn't have any issue.
> > 
> > Well, I'm glad we are the first RA using it :)
> > 
> > I wonders how other m/s RA are doing without it. We are using it (actually
> > "master + slave + start - stop" because of the bug) to check during a
> > promotion after a failover if the resource being promoted is the best one
> > among the known ones.
> 
> Yes, the very simple workaround is simply to set active = master +
> slave; that's all the pacemaker fix will do. You'll still need the "+
> start - stop" to get the situation after the action.

Ok, thank you for the confirmation.

> Coincidentally, we need to bump crm_feature_set to 3.0.11 anyway, so
> you'll be able to test that to tell whether *_active_* is correct, if
> desired.

I will test it.

> There is an ocf_version_cmp function in ocf-shellfuncs.

Our RA is written in perl...but we have ported most of ocf-shellfuncs in a perl
module, including this function :)

cf. [ClusterLabs Developers] Perl Modules for resource agents
    Thu, 26 Nov 2015 01:13:36 +0100

> >>>> On 30 Jul 2016, at 8:51 AM, Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 07/29/2016 05:41 PM, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 30 Jul 2016, at 8:32 AM, Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I finally had time to investigate this, and it definitely is broken.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The only existing heartbeat RA to use the *_notify_active_* variables
> >>>>>> is Filesystem, and it only does so for OCFS2 on SLES10, which didn't
> >>>>>> even ship pacemaker,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm pretty sure it did
> >>>>
> >>>> All I could find was:
> >>>>
> >>>> "SLES 10 did not yet ship pacemaker, but heartbeat with the builtin crm"
> >>>>
> >>>> http://oss.clusterlabs.org/pipermail/pacemaker/2014-July/022232.html
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm sure people were compiling it, and ClusterLabs probably even
> >>>> provided a repo, but it looks like sles didn't ship it.
> >>>>
> >>>> The issue is that the code that builds the active list checks for role
> >>>> RSC_ROLE_STARTED rather than RSC_ROLE_SLAVE + RSC_ROLE_MASTER, so I
> >>>> don't think it ever would have worked.
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> so I'm guessing it's been broken from the beginning of
> >>>>>> pacemaker.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The fix looks straightforward, so I should be able to take care of it
> >>>>>> soon.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Filed bug http://bugs.clusterlabs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5295
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 05/08/2016 04:57 AM, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:
> >>>>>>> Le Fri, 6 May 2016 15:41:11 -0500,
> >>>>>>> Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> a écrit :
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On 05/03/2016 05:30 PM, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Le Tue, 3 May 2016 21:10:12 +0200,
> >>>>>>>>> Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr at dalibo.com> a écrit :
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Le Mon, 2 May 2016 17:59:55 -0500,
> >>>>>>>>>> Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> a écrit :
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> On 04/28/2016 04:47 AM, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Hello all,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> While testing and experiencing with our RA for PostgreSQL, I
> >>>>>>>>>>>> found the meta_notify_active_* variables seems always empty.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Here is an example of these variables as they are seen from our
> >>>>>>>>>>>> RA during a migration/switchover:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> {
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'type' => 'pre',
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'operation' => 'demote',
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'active' => [],
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'inactive' => [],
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'start' => [],
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'stop' => [],
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'demote' => [
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                 {
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                   'rsc' => 'pgsqld:1',
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                   'uname' => 'hanode1'
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                 }
> >>>>>>>>>>>>               ],
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'master' => [
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                 {
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                   'rsc' => 'pgsqld:1',
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                   'uname' => 'hanode1'
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                 }
> >>>>>>>>>>>>               ],
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'promote' => [
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                  {
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                    'rsc' => 'pgsqld:0',
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                    'uname' => 'hanode3'
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                  }
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                ],
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   'slave' => [
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                {
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                  'rsc' => 'pgsqld:0',
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                  'uname' => 'hanode3'
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                },
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                {
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                  'rsc' => 'pgsqld:2',
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                  'uname' => 'hanode2'
> >>>>>>>>>>>>                }
> >>>>>>>>>>>>              ],
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> In case this comes from our side, here is code building this:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/dalibo/PAF/blob/6e86284bc647ef1e81f01f047f1862e40ba62906/lib/OCF_Functions.pm#L444
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> But looking at the variable itself in debug logs, I always find
> >>>>>>>>>>>> it empty, in various situations (switchover, recover, failover).
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> If I understand the documentation correctly, I would expect
> >>>>>>>>>>>> 'active' to list all the three resources, shouldn't it?
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Currently, to bypass this, we consider: active == master + slave
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> You're right, it should. The pacemaker code that generates the
> >>>>>>>>>>> "active" variables is the same used for "demote" etc., so it seems
> >>>>>>>>>>> unlikely the issue is on pacemaker's side. Especially since your
> >>>>>>>>>>> code treats active etc. differently from demote etc., it seems
> >>>>>>>>>>> like it must be in there somewhere, but I don't see where.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> The code treat active, inactive, start and stop all together, for
> >>>>>>>>>> any cloned resource. If the resource is a multistate, it adds
> >>>>>>>>>> promote, demote, slave and master.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Note that from this piece of code, the 7 other notify vars are set
> >>>>>>>>>> correctly: start, stop, inactive, promote, demote, slave, master.
> >>>>>>>>>> Only active is always missing.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> I'll investigate and try to find where is hiding the bug.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> So I added a piece of code to dump the **all** the environment
> >>>>>>>>> variables to a temp file as early as possible **to avoid any
> >>>>>>>>> interaction with our perl module** in the code of the RA, ie.:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> BEGIN {
> >>>>>>>>>   use Time::HiRes qw(time);
> >>>>>>>>>   my $now = time;
> >>>>>>>>>   open my $fh, ">", "/tmp/test-$now.env.txt";
> >>>>>>>>>   printf($fh "%-20s = ''%s''\n", $_, $ENV{$_}) foreach sort keys
> >>>>>>>>> %ENV; }
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Then I started my cluster and set maintenance-mode=false while no
> >>>>>>>>> resources where running. So the debug files contains the probe
> >>>>>>>>> action, start on all nodes, one promote on the master and the first
> >>>>>>>>> monitors. The "*active" variables are always empty anywhere in the
> >>>>>>>>> cluster. Find in attachment the result of the following command on
> >>>>>>>>> the master node:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> for i in test-*; do echo "===== $i ====="; grep OCF_ $i; done >
> >>>>>>>>> debug-env.txt
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I'm using Pacemaker 1.1.13-10.el7_2.2-44eb2dd under CentOS 7.2.1511.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> For completeness, I added the Pacemaker configuration I use for my 3
> >>>>>>>>> node dev/test cluster.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Let me know if you think of more investigations and test I could run
> >>>>>>>>> on this issue. I'm out of ideas for tonight (and I really would
> >>>>>>>>> prefer having this bug on my side).
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> From your environment dumps, what I think is happening is that you
> >>>>>>>> are getting multiple notifications (start, pre-promote,
> >>>>>>>> post-promote) in a single cluster transition. So the variables
> >>>>>>>> reflect the initial state of that transition -- none of the
> >>>>>>>> instances are active, all three are being started (so the nodes are
> >>>>>>>> in the "*_start_*" variables), and one is being promoted.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Yes, this is what happening here. It's embarrassing I didn't thought
> >>>>>>> about that :)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> The starts will be done before the promote. If one of the starts
> >>>>>>>> fails, the transition will be aborted, and a new one will be
> >>>>>>>> calculated. So, if you get to the promote, you can assume anything
> >>>>>>>> in "*_start_*" is now active.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I did another simple test:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> * 3 ms clones are running on hanode1 hanode2 hanode3
> >>>>>>> * master role is on hanode1
> >>>>>>> * I move the master role to hanode 2 using: 
> >>>>>>>   "pcs resource move pgsql-ha hanode2 --master"
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The transition gives us:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> * demote on hanode1
> >>>>>>> * promote en hanode2
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I suppose all the three clone on hanode1, hanode2 and hanode3 should
> >>>>>>> appear in active env variable in this context, isn't it?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Please, find in attachment the environment dumps of this transition
> >>>>>>> from hanode1. You'll see both
> >>>>>>> "OCF_RESKEY_CRM_meta_notify_active_resource" and
> >>>>>>> "OCF_RESKEY_CRM_meta_notify_active_uname" only contains one char: a
> >>>>>>> space.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I start looking at the Pacemaker code, at least to have a better
> >>>>>>> understanding on where environment variables are set and when they are
> >>>>>>> available. I was out of luck so far but I lack of time. Any pointers
> >>>>>>> would be appreciated :)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On a side note, I noticed with these debug files that the notify
> >>>>>>>>> variables where also available outside of notify actions (start and
> >>>>>>>>> notify here). Are they always available during "transition
> >>>>>>>>> actions" (start, stop, promote, demote)? Checking at the mysql RA,
> >>>>>>>>> they are using OCF_RESKEY_CRM_meta_notify_master_uname during the
> >>>>>>>>> start action. So I suppose it's safe?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Good question, I've never tried that before. I'm reluctant to say
> >>>>>>>> it's guaranteed; it's possible seeing them in the start action is a
> >>>>>>>> side effect of the current implementation and could theoretically
> >>>>>>>> change in the future. But if mysql is relying on it, I suppose it's
> >>>>>>>> well-established already, making changing it unlikely ...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thank you very much for this clarification. Presently we keep in a
> >>>>>>> private attribute what we //think// (we can not rely on
> >>>>>>> active_uname :/) are the active uname for the ms resource. As it seems
> >>>>>>> the notify vars appears outside of notify action is just a side effect
> >>>>>>> of the current implementation, I prefer to stay away from them when we
> >>>>>>> are not in a notify action and keep our current implementation.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thank you,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 



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