pageserver: add Gate as a partner to CancellationToken for safe shutdown of Tenant & Timeline (#5711)

## Problem

When shutting down a Tenant, it isn't just important to cause any
background tasks to stop. It's also important to wait until they have
stopped before declaring shutdown complete, in cases where we may re-use
the tenant's local storage for something else, such as running in
secondary mode, or creating a new tenant with the same ID.

## Summary of changes

A `Gate` class is added, inspired by
[seastar::gate](https://docs.seastar.io/master/classseastar_1_1gate.html).
For types that have an important lifetime that corresponds to some
physical resource, use of a Gate as well as a CancellationToken provides
a robust pattern for async requests & shutdown:
- Requests must always acquire the gate as long as they are using the
object
- Shutdown must set the cancellation token, and then `close()` the gate
to wait for requests in progress before returning.

This is not for memory safety: it's for expressing the difference
between "Arc<Tenant> exists", and "This tenant's files on disk are
eligible to be read/written".

- Both Tenant and Timeline get a Gate & CancellationToken.
- The Timeline gate is held during eviction of layers, and during
page_service requests.
- Existing cancellation support in page_service is refined to use the
timeline-scope cancellation token instead of a process-scope
cancellation token. This replaces the use of `task_mgr::associate_with`:
tasks no longer change their tenant/timelineidentity after being
spawned.

The Tenant's Gate is not yet used, but will be important for
Tenant-scoped operations in secondary mode, where we must ensure that
our secondary-mode downloads for a tenant are gated wrt the activity of
an attached Tenant.

This is part of a broader move away from using the global-state driven
`task_mgr` shutdown tokens:
- less global state where we rely on implicit knowledge of what task a
given function is running in, and more explicit references to the
cancellation token that a particular function/type will respect, making
shutdown easier to reason about.
- eventually avoid the big global TASKS mutex.

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Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
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John Spray
2023-11-06 12:39:20 +00:00
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co-authored by Joonas Koivunen
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@@ -728,12 +728,17 @@ impl<IO: AsyncRead + AsyncWrite + Unpin> PostgresBackend<IO> {
trace!("got query {query_string:?}");
if let Err(e) = handler.process_query(self, query_string).await {
log_query_error(query_string, &e);
let short_error = short_error(&e);
self.write_message_noflush(&BeMessage::ErrorResponse(
&short_error,
Some(e.pg_error_code()),
))?;
match e {
QueryError::Shutdown => return Ok(ProcessMsgResult::Break),
e => {
log_query_error(query_string, &e);
let short_error = short_error(&e);
self.write_message_noflush(&BeMessage::ErrorResponse(
&short_error,
Some(e.pg_error_code()),
))?;
}
}
}
self.write_message_noflush(&BeMessage::ReadyForQuery)?;
}