There were a bunch of places where we fire off a process to happen in the
background, but don't have any exception handling on it - instead relying on
the unhandled error being logged when the relevent deferred gets
garbage-collected.
This is unsatisfactory for a number of reasons:
- logging on garbage collection is best-effort and may happen some time after
the error, if at all
- it can be hard to figure out where the error actually happened.
- it is logged as a scary CRITICAL error which (a) I always forget to grep for
and (b) it's not really CRITICAL if a background process we don't care about
fails.
So this is an attempt to add exception handling to everything we fire off into
the background.
This reverts commit 9fbe70a7dc.
It turns out that sortedcontainers.SortedDict is not an exact match for
blist.sorteddict; in particular, `popitem()` removes things from the opposite
end of the dict.
This is trivial to fix, but I want to add some unit tests, and potentially some
more thought about it, before we do so.
Adds a `.wrap` method to ResponseCache which wraps up the boilerplate of a
(get, set) pair, and then use it throughout the codebase.
This will be largely non-functional, but does include the following functional
changes:
* federation_server.on_context_state_request: drops use of _server_linearizer
which looked redundant and could cause incorrect cache misses by yielding
between the get and the set.
* RoomListHandler.get_remote_public_room_list(): fixes logcontext leaks
* the wrap function includes some logging. I'm hoping this won't be too noisy
on production.
it looks like everything that uses ResponseCache expects to have to
`make_deferred_yieldable` its results. It's debatable whether that is the best
approach, but let's document it for now to avoid further confusion.
The state cache bases its size on the sum of the size of entries. The
size of the entry is calculated once on insertion, so it is important
that the size of entries does not change.
The DictionaryCache modified the entries size, which caused the state
cache to incorrectly think it was smaller than it actually was.
It annoys me that we create temporary function objects when there's really no
need for it. Let's factor the gubbins out of preserve_fn and start using it.
Add federation_domain_whitelist
gives a way to restrict which domains your HS is allowed to federate with.
useful mainly for gracefully preventing a private but internet-connected HS from trying to federate to the wider public Matrix network
* [ ] split config options into allowed_local_3pids and registrations_require_3pid
* [ ] simplify and comment logic for picking registration flows
* [ ] fix docstring and move check_3pid_allowed into a new util module
* [ ] use check_3pid_allowed everywhere
@erikjohnston PTAL
Twisted core doesn't have a general purpose one, so we need to write one
ourselves.
Features:
- All writing happens in background thread
- Supports both push and pull producers
- Push producers get paused if the consumer falls behind
For each request, track the amount of time spent waiting for a db
connection. This entails adding it to the LoggingContext and we may as well add
metrics for it while we are passing.
It turns out that the only thing we use the __dict__ of LoggingContext for is
`request`, and given we create lots of LoggingContexts and then copy them every
time we do a db transaction or log line, using the __dict__ seems a bit
redundant. Let's try to optimise things by making the request attribute
explicit.
In order to circumvent the number of duplicate foo:count metrics increasing
without bounds, it's time for a rearrangement.
The following are all deprecated, and replaced with synapse_util_metrics_block_count:
synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:count
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:count
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:count
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:count
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:count
The following are all deprecated, and replaced with synapse_http_server_response_count:
synapse_http_server_requests
synapse_http_server_response_time:count
synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:count
synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:count
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:count
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:count
The following are renamed (the old metrics are kept for now, but deprecated):
synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime_seconds
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:total ->
synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration_seconds
synapse_http_server_response_time:total ->
synapse_http_server_response_time_seconds
synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:total ->
synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime_seconds
synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:total ->
synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime_seconds
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:total ->
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:total
synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration_seconds
Add some logging to the Limiter in a similar spirit to the Linearizer, to help
debug issues.
Also fix a logcontext leak.
Also refactor slightly to avoid throwing exceptions.
This is a bit of an experimental change at this point; the idea is to see if it
helps us track down where our stack overflows are coming from by logging the
stack when the exception was caught and turned into a Failure. (We'll also need
edf2704420).
If we deploy this, we'll be able to enable it via the log config yaml.
Occaisonally has_any_entity_changed would throw the error: "Set changed
size during iteration" when taking the max of the `sorteddict`. While
its uncertain how that happens, its quite inefficient to iterate over
the entire dict anyway so we change to using the more traditional
`bisect_*` functions.
We update the normal cache descriptors to handle caches with a single
argument specially so that the key wasn't a 1-tuple. We need to update
the cache list to be aware of this.
Most of the time was spent copying a dict to filter out sentinel values
that indicated that keys did not exist in the dict. The sentinel values
were added to ensure that we cached the non-existence of keys.
By updating DictionaryCache to keep track of which keys were known to
not exist itself we can remove a dictionary copy.
The _get_joined_users_from_context cache stores a mapping from user_id
to avatar_url and display_name. Instead of storing those in a dict,
store them in a namedtuple as that uses much less memory.
We also try converting the string to ascii to further reduce the size.
Currently the cache descriptors store deferreds rather than raw values,
this is a simple way of triggering only one database hit and sharing the
result if two callers attempt to get the same value.
However, there are a few caches that simply store a mapping from string
to string (or int). These caches can have a large number of entries,
under the assumption that each entry is small. However, the size of a
deferred (specifically the size of ObservableDeferred) is signigicantly
larger than that of the raw value, 2kb vs 32b.
This PR therefore changes the cache descriptors to store the raw values
rather than the deferreds.
As a side effect cached storage function now either return a deferred or
the actual value, as the cached list decriptor already does. This is
fine as we always end up just yield'ing on the returned value
eventually, which handles that case correctly.
The cache wrappers had a habit of leaking the logcontext into the reactor while
the lookup function was running, and then not restoring it correctly when the
lookup function had completed. It's all the fault of
`preserve_context_over_{fn,deferred}` which are basically a bit broken.
Due to a failure to instantiate DeferredTimedOutError, time_bound_deferred
would throw a CancelledError when the deferred timed out, which was rather
confusing.
The `@cached` decorator on `KeyStore._get_server_verify_key` was missing
its `num_args` parameter, which meant that it was returning the wrong key for
any server which had more than one recorded key.
By way of a fix, change the default for `num_args` to be *all* arguments. To
implement that, factor out a common base class for `CacheDescriptor` and `CacheListDescriptor`.
Fix a bug in ``logcontext.preserve_fn`` which made it leak context into the
reactor, and add a test for it.
Also, get rid of ``logcontext.reset_context_after_deferred``, which tried to do
the same thing but had its own, different, set of bugs.
... and update some docstrings to correctly reflect the types being used.
get_new_device_msgs_for_remote can return a long under some circumstances,
which was being stored in last_device_list_stream_id_by_dest, and was then
upsetting things on the next loop.
Instead of calculating the size of the cache repeatedly, which can take
a long time now that it can use a callback, instead cache the size and
update that on insertion and deletion.
This requires changing the cache descriptors to have two caches, one for
pending deferreds and the other for the actual values. There's no reason
to evict from the pending deferreds as they won't take up any more
memory.
The debug 'full_twisted_stacktraces' flag caused synapse to rewrite
twisted deferreds to always fire the callback on the next reactor tick.
This was to force the deferred to always store the stacktraces on
exceptions, and thus be more likely to have a full stacktrace when it
reaches the final error handlers and gets printed to the logs.
Dynamically rewriting things is generally bad, and in particular this
change violates assumptions of various bits of Twisted. This wouldn't
necessarily be so bad, but it turns out this option has been turned on
on some production servers.
Turning the option can cause e.g. #1778.
For now, lets just entirely nuke this option.
This only makes a difference for versions of ldap3 before 1.0, but a)
its best to be explicit and b) there are distributions that package
ancient versions for ldap3 (e.g. debian).
Allows delegating the password auth to an external module. This also
moves the LDAP auth to using this system, allowing it to be removed from
the synapse tree entirely in the future.
The only place that was observed was to set the profile. I've made it
so that the profile is set within store.register in the same transaction
that creates the user.
This required some slight changes to the registration code for upgrading
guest users, since it previously relied on the distributor swallowing errors
if the profile already existed.
We change it so that each cache has an individual CacheMetric, instead
of having one global CacheMetric. This means that when a cache tries to
increment a counter it does not need to go through so many indirections.
Move the functions inside the distributor and import them
where needed. This reduces duplication and makes it possible
for flake8 to detect when the functions aren't used in a
given file.
