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Taylor Blau
42be681b33 packfile.c: prevent overflow in load_idx()
Prevent an overflow when locating a pack's CRC offset when the number
of packed items is greater than 2^32-1/hashsz by guarding the
computation with an `st_mult()`.

Note that to avoid truncating the result, the `crc_offset` member must
itself become a `size_t`. The only usage of this variable (besides the
assignment in `load_idx()`) is in `read_v2_anomalous_offsets()` in the
index-pack code. There we use the `crc_offset` as a pointer offset, so
we are already equipped to handle the type change.

Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-14 09:31:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ccd12a3d6c Merge branch 'en/header-split-cache-h-part-2'
More header clean-up.

* en/header-split-cache-h-part-2: (22 commits)
  reftable: ensure git-compat-util.h is the first (indirect) include
  diff.h: reduce unnecessary includes
  object-store.h: reduce unnecessary includes
  commit.h: reduce unnecessary includes
  fsmonitor: reduce includes of cache.h
  cache.h: remove unnecessary headers
  treewide: remove cache.h inclusion due to previous changes
  cache,tree: move basic name compare functions from read-cache to tree
  cache,tree: move cmp_cache_name_compare from tree.[ch] to read-cache.c
  hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.h
  tree-diff.c: move S_DIFFTREE_IFXMIN_NEQ define from cache.h
  dir.h: move DTYPE defines from cache.h
  versioncmp.h: move declarations for versioncmp.c functions from cache.h
  ws.h: move declarations for ws.c functions from cache.h
  match-trees.h: move declarations for match-trees.c functions from cache.h
  pkt-line.h: move declarations for pkt-line.c functions from cache.h
  base85.h: move declarations for base85.c functions from cache.h
  copy.h: move declarations for copy.c functions from cache.h
  server-info.h: move declarations for server-info.c functions from cache.h
  packfile.h: move pack_window and pack_entry from cache.h
  ...
2023-05-09 16:45:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
36628c56ed Merge branch 'ps/fix-geom-repack-with-alternates'
Geometric repacking ("git repack --geometric=<n>") in a repository
that borrows from an alternate object database had various corner
case bugs, which have been corrected.

* ps/fix-geom-repack-with-alternates:
  repack: disable writing bitmaps when doing a local repack
  repack: honor `-l` when calculating pack geometry
  t/helper: allow chmtime to print verbosely without modifying mtime
  pack-objects: extend test coverage of `--stdin-packs` with alternates
  pack-objects: fix error when same packfile is included and excluded
  pack-objects: fix error when packing same pack twice
  pack-objects: split out `--stdin-packs` tests into separate file
  repack: fix generating multi-pack-index with only non-local packs
  repack: fix trying to use preferred pack in alternates
  midx: fix segfault with no packs and invalid preferred pack
2023-04-25 13:56:20 -07:00
Elijah Newren
e3d2f20e6f object-store.h: reduce unnecessary includes
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-24 12:47:33 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
d85cd18777 repack: disable writing bitmaps when doing a local repack
In order to write a bitmap, we need to have full coverage of all objects
that are about to be packed. In the traditional non-multi-pack-index
world this meant we need to do a full repack of all objects into a
single packfile. But in the new multi-pack-index world we can get away
with writing bitmaps when we have multiple packfiles as long as the
multi-pack-index covers all objects.

This is not always the case though. When asked to perform a repack of
local objects, only, then we cannot guarantee to have full coverage of
all objects regardless of whether we do a full repack or a repack with a
multi-pack-index. The end result is that writing the bitmap will fail in
both worlds:

    $ git multi-pack-index write --stdin-packs --bitmap <packfiles
    warning: Failed to write bitmap index. Packfile doesn't have full closure (object 1529341d78cf45377407369acb0f4ff2b5cdae42 is missing)
    error: could not write multi-pack bitmap

Now there are two different ways to fix this. The first one would be to
amend git-multi-pack-index(1) to disable writing bitmaps when we notice
that we don't have full object coverage.

    - We don't have enough information in git-multi-pack-index(1) in
      order to tell whether the local repository _should_ have full
      coverage. Because even when connected to an alternate object
      directory, it may be the case that we still have all objects
      around in the main object database.

    - git-multi-pack-index(1) is quite a low-level tool. Automatically
      disabling functionality that it was asked to provide does not feel
      like the right thing to do.

We can easily fix it at a higher level in git-repack(1) though. When
asked to only include local objects via `-l` and when connected to an
alternate object directory then we will override the user's ask and
disable writing bitmaps with a warning. This is similar to what we do in
git-pack-objects(1), where we also disable writing bitmaps in case we
omit an object from the pack.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-14 10:27:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
72871b198f Merge branch 'ab/remove-implicit-use-of-the-repository'
Code clean-up around the use of the_repository.

* ab/remove-implicit-use-of-the-repository:
  libs: use "struct repository *" argument, not "the_repository"
  post-cocci: adjust comments for recent repo_* migration
  cocci: apply the "revision.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "rerere.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "refs.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "promisor-remote.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "packfile.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "pretty.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "object-store.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "diff.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "commit.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "commit-reach.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "cache.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: add missing "the_repository" macros to "pending"
  cocci: sort "the_repository" rules by header
  cocci: fix incorrect & verbose "the_repository" rules
  cocci: remove dead rule from "the_repository.pending.cocci"
2023-04-06 13:38:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e7dca80692 Merge branch 'ab/remove-implicit-use-of-the-repository' into en/header-split-cache-h
* ab/remove-implicit-use-of-the-repository:
  libs: use "struct repository *" argument, not "the_repository"
  post-cocci: adjust comments for recent repo_* migration
  cocci: apply the "revision.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "rerere.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "refs.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "promisor-remote.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "packfile.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "pretty.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "object-store.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "diff.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "commit.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "commit-reach.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "cache.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: add missing "the_repository" macros to "pending"
  cocci: sort "the_repository" rules by header
  cocci: fix incorrect & verbose "the_repository" rules
  cocci: remove dead rule from "the_repository.pending.cocci"
2023-04-04 08:25:52 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
c7c33f50bd post-cocci: adjust comments for recent repo_* migration
In preceding commits we changed many calls to macros that were
providing a "the_repository" argument to invoke corresponding repo_*()
function instead. Let's follow-up and adjust references to those in
comments, which coccinelle didn't (and inherently can't) catch.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-28 07:36:46 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
bc726bd075 cocci: apply the "object-store.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
Apply the part of "the_repository.pending.cocci" pertaining to
"object-store.h".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-28 07:36:45 -07:00
Elijah Newren
1c02840008 object-store.h: move struct object_info from cache.h
Move struct object_info, and a few related #define's from cache.h to
object-store.h.

A surprising effect of this change is that replace-object.h, which
includes object-store.h, now needs to directly include cache.h since
that is where read_replace_refs is declared and that variable is used
in one of its inline functions.  The next commit will move that
declaration and fix that unfortunate new direct inclusion of cache.h.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-23 17:25:29 -08:00
Jeff King
0ba05cf2e0 repo_read_object_file(): stop wrapping read_object_file_extended()
The only caller of read_object_file_extended() is the thin wrapper of
repo_read_object_file(). Instead of wrapping, let's just rename the
inner function and let people call it directly. This cleans up the
namespace and reduces confusion.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-01-08 10:52:55 +09:00
Jeff King
7be13f5f74 read_object_file_extended(): drop lookup_replace option
Our sole caller always passes in "1", so we can just drop the parameter
entirely. Anybody who doesn't want this behavior could easily call
oid_object_info_extended() themselves, as we're just a thin wrapper
around it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-01-08 10:52:55 +09:00
Jeff King
b25562e63f object-file: inline calls to read_object()
Since read_object() is these days just a thin wrapper around
oid_object_info_extended(), and since it only has two callers, let's
just inline those calls. This has a few positive outcomes:

  - it's a net reduction in source code lines

  - even though the callers end up with a few extra lines, they're now
    more flexible and can use object_info flags directly. So no more
    need to convert die_if_corrupt between parameter/flag, and we can
    ask for lookup replacement with a flag rather than doing it
    ourselves.

  - there's one fewer function in an already crowded namespace (e.g.,
    the difference between read_object() and read_object_file() was not
    immediately obvious; now we only have one of them).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-01-08 10:52:54 +09:00
Jonathan Tan
9e59b38c88 object-file: emit corruption errors when detected
Instead of relying on errno being preserved across function calls, teach
do_oid_object_info_extended() to itself report object corruption when
it first detects it. There are 3 types of corruption being detected:
 - when a replacement object is missing
 - when a loose object is corrupt
 - when a packed object is corrupt and the object cannot be read
   in another way

Note that in the RHS of this patch's diff, a check for ENOENT that was
introduced in 3ba7a06552 (A loose object is not corrupt if it cannot
be read due to EMFILE, 2010-10-28) is also removed. The purpose of this
check is to avoid a false report of corruption if the errno contains
something like EMFILE (or anything that is not ENOENT), in which case
a more generic report is presented. Because, as of this patch, we no
longer rely on such a heuristic to determine corruption, but surface
the error message at the point when we read something that we did not
expect, this check is no longer necessary.

Besides being more resilient, this also prepares for a future patch in
which an indirect caller of do_oid_object_info_extended() will need
such functionality.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-12-15 09:05:55 +09:00
Jonathan Tan
acd6f0d973 object-file: remove OBJECT_INFO_IGNORE_LOOSE
Its last user was removed in 97b2fa08b6 (fetch-pack: drop
custom loose object cache, 2018-11-12), so we can remove it.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-12-15 09:05:55 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
5cf88fd8b0 git-compat-util.h: use "UNUSED", not "UNUSED(var)"
As reported in [1] the "UNUSED(var)" macro introduced in
2174b8c75d (Merge branch 'jk/unused-annotation' into next,
2022-08-24) breaks coccinelle's parsing of our sources in files where
it occurs.

Let's instead partially go with the approach suggested in [2] of
making this not take an argument. As noted in [1] "coccinelle" will
ignore such tokens in argument lists that it doesn't know about, and
it's less of a surprise to syntax highlighters.

This undoes the "help us notice when a parameter marked as unused is
actually use" part of 9b24034754 (git-compat-util: add UNUSED macro,
2022-08-19), a subsequent commit will further tweak the macro to
implement a replacement for that functionality.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220825.86ilmg4mil.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220819.868rnk54ju.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-01 10:49:48 -07:00
Jeff King
02c3c59e62 hashmap: mark unused callback parameters
Hashmap comparison functions must conform to a particular callback
interface, but many don't use all of their parameters. Especially the
void cmp_data pointer, but some do not use keydata either (because they
can easily form a full struct to pass when doing lookups). Let's mark
these to make -Wunused-parameter happy.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 12:18:55 -07:00
Han Xin
2b6070ac4c object-file.c: add "stream_loose_object()" to handle large object
If we want unpack and write a loose object using "write_loose_object",
we have to feed it with a buffer with the same size of the object, which
will consume lots of memory and may cause OOM. This can be improved by
feeding data to "stream_loose_object()" in a stream.

Add a new function "stream_loose_object()", which is a stream version of
"write_loose_object()" but with a low memory footprint. We will use this
function to unpack large blob object in later commit.

Another difference with "write_loose_object()" is that we have no chance
to run "write_object_file_prepare()" to calculate the oid in advance.
In "write_loose_object()", we know the oid and we can write the
temporary file in the same directory as the final object, but for an
object with an undetermined oid, we don't know the exact directory for
the object.

Still, we need to save the temporary file we're preparing
somewhere. We'll do that in the top-level ".git/objects/"
directory (or whatever "GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY" is set to). Once we've
streamed it we'll know the OID, and will move it to its canonical
path.

"freshen_packed_object()" or "freshen_loose_object()" will be called
inside "stream_loose_object()" after obtaining the "oid". After the
temporary file is written, we wants to mark the object to recent and we
may find that where indeed is already the object. We should remove the
temporary and do not leave a new copy of the object.

Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Han Xin <chiyutianyi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-13 10:22:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a50036da1a Merge branch 'tb/cruft-packs'
A mechanism to pack unreachable objects into a "cruft pack",
instead of ejecting them into loose form to be reclaimed later, has
been introduced.

* tb/cruft-packs:
  sha1-file.c: don't freshen cruft packs
  builtin/gc.c: conditionally avoid pruning objects via loose
  builtin/repack.c: add cruft packs to MIDX during geometric repack
  builtin/repack.c: use named flags for existing_packs
  builtin/repack.c: allow configuring cruft pack generation
  builtin/repack.c: support generating a cruft pack
  builtin/pack-objects.c: --cruft with expiration
  reachable: report precise timestamps from objects in cruft packs
  reachable: add options to add_unseen_recent_objects_to_traversal
  builtin/pack-objects.c: --cruft without expiration
  builtin/pack-objects.c: return from create_object_entry()
  t/helper: add 'pack-mtimes' test-tool
  pack-mtimes: support writing pack .mtimes files
  chunk-format.h: extract oid_version()
  pack-write: pass 'struct packing_data' to 'stage_tmp_packfiles'
  pack-mtimes: support reading .mtimes files
  Documentation/technical: add cruft-packs.txt
2022-06-03 14:30:37 -07:00
Taylor Blau
b757353676 builtin/pack-objects.c: --cruft without expiration
Teach `pack-objects` how to generate a cruft pack when no objects are
dropped (i.e., `--cruft-expiration=never`). Later patches will teach
`pack-objects` how to generate a cruft pack that prunes objects.

When generating a cruft pack which does not prune objects, we want to
collect all unreachable objects into a single pack (noting and updating
their mtimes as we accumulate them). Ordinary use will pass the result
of a `git repack -A` as a kept pack, so when this patch says "kept
pack", readers should think "reachable objects".

Generating a non-expiring cruft packs works as follows:

  - Callers provide a list of every pack they know about, and indicate
    which packs are about to be removed.

  - All packs which are going to be removed (we'll call these the
    redundant ones) are marked as kept in-core.

    Any packs the caller did not mention (but are known to the
    `pack-objects` process) are also marked as kept in-core. Packs not
    mentioned by the caller are assumed to be unknown to them, i.e.,
    they entered the repository after the caller decided which packs
    should be kept and which should be discarded.

    Since we do not want to include objects in these "unknown" packs
    (because we don't know which of their objects are or aren't
    reachable), these are also marked as kept in-core.

  - Then, we enumerate all objects in the repository, and add them to
    our packing list if they do not appear in an in-core kept pack.

This results in a new cruft pack which contains all known objects that
aren't included in the kept packs. When the kept pack is the result of
`git repack -A`, the resulting pack contains all unreachable objects.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-26 15:48:26 -07:00
Taylor Blau
94cd775a6c pack-mtimes: support reading .mtimes files
To store the individual mtimes of objects in a cruft pack, introduce a
new `.mtimes` format that can optionally accompany a single pack in the
repository.

The format is defined in Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt, and
stores a 4-byte network order timestamp for each object in name (index)
order.

This patch prepares for cruft packs by defining the `.mtimes` format,
and introducing a basic API that callers can use to read out individual
mtimes.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-26 15:48:26 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
89ef49b30c object-store.h: remove unused has_sha1_file*()
These macros were last used in 5d3679ee02 (sha1-file: drop
has_sha1_file(), 2019-01-07), so let's remove coccinelle migration
rules added 9b45f49981 (object-store: prepare has_{sha1, object}_file
to handle any repo, 2018-11-13), along with the compatibility macros
themselves.

The "These functions.." in the diff context and the general comment
about compatibility macros still applies to
"NO_THE_REPOSITORY_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS" use just a few lines below
this, so let's keep the comment.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-04-01 10:16:10 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
44439c1c58 object-file API: have hash_object_file() take "enum object_type"
Change the hash_object_file() function to take an "enum
object_type".

Since a preceding commit all of its callers are passing either
"{commit,tree,blob,tag}_type", or the result of a call to type_name(),
the parse_object() caller that would pass NULL is now using
stream_object_signature().

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-25 17:16:32 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
0ff7b4f976 object API: rename hash_object_file_literally() to write_*()
Before 0c3db67cc8 (hash-object --literally: fix buffer overrun with
extra-long object type, 2015-05-04) the hash-object code being changed
here called write_sha1_file() to both hash and write a loose
object. Before that we'd use hash_sha1_file() to if "-w" wasn't
provided, and otherwise call write_sha1_file().

Now we'll always call the same function for both writing. Let's rename
it from hash_*_literally() to write_*_literally(). Even though the
write_*() might not actually write if HASH_WRITE_OBJECT isn't in
"flags", having it be more similar to write_object_file_flags() than
hash_object_file(), but carrying a name that would suggest that it's a
variant of the latter is confusing.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-25 17:16:32 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
c80d226a04 object-file API: have write_object_file() take "enum object_type"
Change the write_object_file() function to take an "enum object_type"
instead of a "const char *type". Its callers either passed
{commit,tree,blob,tag}_type and can pass the corresponding OBJ_* type
instead, or were hardcoding strings like "blob".

This avoids the back & forth fragility where the callers of
write_object_file() would have the enum type, and convert it
themselves via type_name(). We do have to now do that conversion
ourselves before calling write_object_file_prepare(), but those
codepaths will be similarly adjusted in subsequent commits.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-25 17:16:31 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
b04cdea46c object-file API: add a format_object_header() function
Add a convenience function to wrap the xsnprintf() command that
generates loose object headers. This code was copy/pasted in various
parts of the codebase, let's define it in one place and re-use it from
there.

All except one caller of it had a valid "enum object_type" for us,
it's only write_object_file_prepare() which might need to deal with
"git hash-object --literally" and a potential garbage type. Let's have
the primary API use an "enum object_type", and define a *_literally()
function that can take an arbitrary "const char *" for the type.

See [1] for the discussion that prompted this patch, i.e. new code in
object-file.c that wanted to copy/paste the xsnprintf() invocation.

In the case of fast-import.c the callers unfortunately need to cast
back & forth between "unsigned char *" and "char *", since
format_object_header() ad encode_in_pack_object_header() take
different signedness.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/211213.86bl1l9bfz.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-25 17:16:31 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
63e05f9056 object-file API: return "void", not "int" from hash_object_file()
The hash_object_file() function added in abdc3fc842 (Add
hash_sha1_file(), 2006-10-14) did not have a meaningful return value,
and it never has.

One was seemingly added to avoid adding braces to the "ret = "
assignments being modified here. Let's instead assign "0" to the "ret"
variables at the beginning of the relevant functions, and have them
return "void".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-25 17:16:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0dc90d954d Merge branch 'ns/tmp-objdir'
New interface into the tmp-objdir API to help in-core use of the
quarantine feature.

* ns/tmp-objdir:
  tmp-objdir: disable ref updates when replacing the primary odb
  tmp-objdir: new API for creating temporary writable databases
2022-01-03 16:24:15 -08:00
Neeraj Singh
ecd81dfc79 tmp-objdir: disable ref updates when replacing the primary odb
When creating a subprocess with a temporary ODB, we set the
GIT_QUARANTINE_ENVIRONMENT env var to tell child Git processes not
to update refs, since the tmp-objdir may go away.

Introduce a similar mechanism for in-process temporary ODBs when
we call tmp_objdir_replace_primary_odb. Now both mechanisms set
the disable_ref_updates flag on the odb, which is queried by
the ref_transaction_prepare function.

Peff's test case [1] was invoking ref updates via the cachetextconv
setting. That particular code silently does nothing when a ref
update is forbidden. See the call to notes_cache_put in
fill_textconv where errors are ignored.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/YVOn3hDsb5pnxR53@coredump.intra.peff.net/

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-08 14:06:46 -08:00
Neeraj Singh
b3cecf49ea tmp-objdir: new API for creating temporary writable databases
The tmp_objdir API provides the ability to create temporary object
directories, but was designed with the goal of having subprocesses
access these object stores, followed by the main process migrating
objects from it to the main object store or just deleting it.  The
subprocesses would view it as their primary datastore and write to it.

Here we add the tmp_objdir_replace_primary_odb function that replaces
the current process's writable "main" object directory with the
specified one. The previous main object directory is restored in either
tmp_objdir_migrate or tmp_objdir_destroy.

For the --remerge-diff usecase, add a new `will_destroy` flag in `struct
object_database` to mark ephemeral object databases that do not require
fsync durability.

Add 'git prune' support for removing temporary object databases, and
make sure that they have a name starting with tmp_ and containing an
operation-specific name.

Based-on-patch-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-08 14:06:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2c428e4205 Merge branch 'ab/fix-commit-error-message-upon-unwritable-object-store'
"git commit" gave duplicated error message when the object store
was unwritable, which has been corrected.

* ab/fix-commit-error-message-upon-unwritable-object-store:
  commit: fix duplication regression in permission error output
  unwritable tests: assert exact error output
2021-10-25 16:06:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
061a21d36d Merge branch 'ab/fsck-unexpected-type'
"git fsck" has been taught to report mismatch between expected and
actual types of an object better.

* ab/fsck-unexpected-type:
  fsck: report invalid object type-path combinations
  fsck: don't hard die on invalid object types
  object-file.c: stop dying in parse_loose_header()
  object-file.c: return ULHR_TOO_LONG on "header too long"
  object-file.c: use "enum" return type for unpack_loose_header()
  object-file.c: simplify unpack_loose_short_header()
  object-file.c: make parse_loose_header_extended() public
  object-file.c: return -1, not "status" from unpack_loose_header()
  object-file.c: don't set "typep" when returning non-zero
  cat-file tests: test for current --allow-unknown-type behavior
  cat-file tests: add corrupt loose object test
  cat-file tests: test for missing/bogus object with -t, -s and -p
  cat-file tests: move bogus_* variable declarations earlier
  fsck tests: test for garbage appended to a loose object
  fsck tests: test current hash/type mismatch behavior
  fsck tests: refactor one test to use a sub-repo
  fsck tests: add test for fsck-ing an unknown type
2021-10-25 16:06:56 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
4ef91a2d79 commit: fix duplication regression in permission error output
Fix a regression in the error output emitted when .git/objects can't
be written to. Before 9c4d6c0297 (cache-tree: Write updated
cache-tree after commit, 2014-07-13) we'd emit only one "insufficient
permission" error, now we'll do so again.

The cause is rather straightforward, we've got WRITE_TREE_SILENT for
the use-case of wanting to prepare an index silently, quieting any
permission etc. error output. Then when we attempt to update to
that (possibly broken) index we'll run into the same errors again.

But with 9c4d6c0297 the gap between the cache-tree API and the object
store wasn't closed in terms of asking write_object_file() to be
silent. I.e. post-9c4d6c0297b the first call is to prepare_index(),
and after that we'll call prepare_to_commit(). We only want verbose
error output from the latter.

So let's add and use that facility with a corresponding HASH_SILENT
flag, its only user is cache-tree.c's update_one(), which will set it
if its "WRITE_TREE_SILENT" flag is set.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-12 11:16:59 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
96e41f58fe fsck: report invalid object type-path combinations
Improve the error that's emitted in cases where we find a loose object
we parse, but which isn't at the location we expect it to be.

Before this change we'd prefix the error with a not-a-OID derived from
the path at which the object was found, due to an emergent behavior in
how we'd end up with an "OID" in these codepaths.

Now we'll instead say what object we hashed, and what path it was
found at. Before this patch series e.g.:

    $ git hash-object --stdin -w -t blob </dev/null
    e69de29bb2
    $ mv objects/e6/ objects/e7

Would emit ("[...]" used to abbreviate the OIDs):

    git fsck
    error: hash mismatch for ./objects/e7/9d[...] (expected e79d[...])
    error: e79d[...]: object corrupt or missing: ./objects/e7/9d[...]

Now we'll instead emit:

    error: e69d[...]: hash-path mismatch, found at: ./objects/e7/9d[...]

Furthermore, we'll do the right thing when the object type and its
location are bad. I.e. this case:

    $ git hash-object --stdin -w -t garbage --literally </dev/null
    8315a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
    $ mv objects/83 objects/84

As noted in an earlier commits we'd simply die early in those cases,
until preceding commits fixed the hard die on invalid object type:

    $ git fsck
    fatal: invalid object type

Now we'll instead emit sensible error messages:

    $ git fsck
    error: 8315[...]: hash-path mismatch, found at: ./objects/84/15[...]
    error: 8315[...]: object is of unknown type 'garbage': ./objects/84/15[...]

In both fsck.c and object-file.c we're using null_oid as a sentinel
value for checking whether we got far enough to be certain that the
issue was indeed this OID mismatch.

We need to add the "object corrupt or missing" special-case to deal
with cases where read_loose_object() will return an error before
completing check_object_signature(), e.g. if we have an error in
unpack_loose_rest() because we find garbage after the valid gzip
content:

    $ git hash-object --stdin -w -t blob </dev/null
    e69de29bb2
    $ chmod 755 objects/e6/9de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
    $ echo garbage >>objects/e6/9de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
    $ git fsck
    error: garbage at end of loose object 'e69d[...]'
    error: unable to unpack contents of ./objects/e6/9d[...]
    error: e69d[...]: object corrupt or missing: ./objects/e6/9d[...]

There is currently some weird messaging in the edge case when the two
are combined, i.e. because we're not explicitly passing along an error
state about this specific scenario from check_stream_oid() via
read_loose_object() we'll end up printing the null OID if an object is
of an unknown type *and* it can't be unpacked by zlib, e.g.:

    $ git hash-object --stdin -w -t garbage --literally </dev/null
    8315a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
    $ chmod 755 objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
    $ echo garbage >>objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
    $ /usr/bin/git fsck
    fatal: invalid object type
    $ ~/g/git/git fsck
    error: garbage at end of loose object '8315a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f'
    error: unable to unpack contents of ./objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
    error: 8315a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f: object corrupt or missing: ./objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
    error: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: object is of unknown type 'garbage': ./objects/83/15a83d2acc4c174aed59430f9a9c4ed926440f
    [...]

I think it's OK to leave that for future improvements, which would
involve enum-ifying more error state as we've done with "enum
unpack_loose_header_result" in preceding commits. In these
increasingly more obscure cases the worst that can happen is that
we'll get slightly nonsensical or inapplicable error messages.

There's other such potential edge cases, all of which might produce
some confusing messaging, but still be handled correctly as far as
passing along errors goes. E.g. if check_object_signature() returns
and oideq(real_oid, null_oid()) is true, which could happen if it
returns -1 due to the read_istream() call having failed.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-01 15:06:01 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
31deb28f5e fsck: don't hard die on invalid object types
Change the error fsck emits on invalid object types, such as:

    $ git hash-object --stdin -w -t garbage --literally </dev/null
    <OID>

From the very ungraceful error of:

    $ git fsck
    fatal: invalid object type
    $

To:

    $ git fsck
    error: <OID>: object is of unknown type 'garbage': <OID_PATH>
    [ other fsck output ]

We'll still exit with non-zero, but now we'll finish the rest of the
traversal. The tests that's being added here asserts that we'll still
complain about other fsck issues (e.g. an unrelated dangling blob).

To do this we need to pass down the "OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE"
flag from read_loose_object() through to parse_loose_header(). Since
the read_loose_object() function is only used in builtin/fsck.c we can
simply change it to accept a "struct object_info" (which contains the
OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE in its flags). See
f6371f9210 (sha1_file: add read_loose_object() function, 2017-01-13)
for the introduction of read_loose_object().

Since we'll need a "struct strbuf" to hold the "type_name" let's pass
it to the for_each_loose_file_in_objdir() callback to avoid allocating
a new one for each loose object in the iteration. It also makes the
memory management simpler than sticking it in fsck_loose() itself, as
we'll only need to strbuf_reset() it, with no need to do a
strbuf_release() before each "return".

Before this commit we'd never check the "type" if read_loose_object()
failed, but now we do. We therefore need to initialize it to OBJ_NONE
to be able to tell the difference between e.g. its
unpack_loose_header() having failed, and us getting past that and into
parse_loose_header().

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-01 15:06:01 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
9865b6e6a4 *.[ch] *_INIT macros: use { 0 } for a "zero out" idiom
In C it isn't required to specify that all members of a struct are
zero'd out to 0, NULL or '\0', just providing a "{ 0 }" will
accomplish that.

Let's also change code that provided N zero'd fields to just
provide one, and change e.g. "{ NULL }" to "{ 0 }" for
consistency. I.e. even if the first member is a pointer let's use "0"
instead of "NULL". The point of using "0" consistently is to pick one,
and to not have the reader wonder why we're not using the same pattern
everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-27 14:47:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
28caad63d0 Merge branch 'rs/packfile-bad-object-list-in-oidset'
Replace a handcrafted data structure used to keep track of bad
objects in the packfile API by an oidset.

* rs/packfile-bad-object-list-in-oidset:
  packfile: use oidset for bad objects
  packfile: convert has_packed_and_bad() to object_id
  packfile: convert mark_bad_packed_object() to object_id
  midx: inline nth_midxed_pack_entry()
  oidset: make oidset_size() an inline function
2021-09-23 13:44:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0649303820 Merge branch 'tb/multi-pack-bitmaps'
The reachability bitmap file used to be generated only for a single
pack, but now we've learned to generate bitmaps for history that
span across multiple packfiles.

* tb/multi-pack-bitmaps: (29 commits)
  pack-bitmap: drop bitmap_index argument from try_partial_reuse()
  pack-bitmap: drop repository argument from prepare_midx_bitmap_git()
  p5326: perf tests for MIDX bitmaps
  p5310: extract full and partial bitmap tests
  midx: respect 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP'
  t7700: update to work with MIDX bitmap test knob
  t5319: don't write MIDX bitmaps in t5319
  t5310: disable GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP
  t0410: disable GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP
  t5326: test multi-pack bitmap behavior
  t/helper/test-read-midx.c: add --checksum mode
  t5310: move some tests to lib-bitmap.sh
  pack-bitmap: write multi-pack bitmaps
  pack-bitmap: read multi-pack bitmaps
  pack-bitmap.c: avoid redundant calls to try_partial_reuse
  pack-bitmap.c: introduce 'bitmap_is_preferred_refname()'
  pack-bitmap.c: introduce 'nth_bitmap_object_oid()'
  pack-bitmap.c: introduce 'bitmap_num_objects()'
  midx: avoid opening multiple MIDXs when writing
  midx: close linked MIDXs, avoid leaking memory
  ...
2021-09-20 15:20:39 -07:00
René Scharfe
09ef66179b packfile: use oidset for bad objects
Store the object ID of broken pack entries in an oidset instead of
keeping only their hashes in an unsorted array.  The resulting code is
shorter and easier to read.  It also handles the (hopefully) very rare
case of having a high number of bad objects better.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-12 16:14:32 -07:00
Taylor Blau
f57a739691 midx: avoid opening multiple MIDXs when writing
Opening multiple instance of the same MIDX can lead to problems like two
separate packed_git structures which represent the same pack being added
to the repository's object store.

The above scenario can happen because prepare_midx_pack() checks if
`m->packs[pack_int_id]` is NULL in order to determine if a pack has been
opened and installed in the repository before. But a caller can
construct two copies of the same MIDX by calling get_multi_pack_index()
and load_multi_pack_index() since the former manipulates the
object store directly but the latter is a lower-level routine which
allocates a new MIDX for each call.

So if prepare_midx_pack() is called on multiple MIDXs with the same
pack_int_id, then that pack will be installed twice in the object
store's packed_git pointer.

This can lead to problems in, for e.g., the pack-bitmap code, which does
something like the following (in pack-bitmap.c:open_pack_bitmap()):

    struct bitmap_index *bitmap_git = ...;
    for (p = get_all_packs(r); p; p = p->next) {
      if (open_pack_bitmap_1(bitmap_git, p) == 0)
        ret = 0;
    }

which is a problem if two copies of the same pack exist in the
packed_git list because pack-bitmap.c:open_pack_bitmap_1() contains a
conditional like the following:

    if (bitmap_git->pack || bitmap_git->midx) {
      /* ignore extra bitmap file; we can only handle one */
      warning("ignoring extra bitmap file: %s", packfile->pack_name);
      close(fd);
      return -1;
    }

Avoid this scenario by not letting write_midx_internal() open a MIDX
that isn't also pointed at by the object store. So long as this is the
case, other routines should prefer to open MIDXs with
get_multi_pack_index() or reprepare_packed_git() instead of creating
instances on their own. Because get_multi_pack_index() returns
`r->object_store->multi_pack_index` if it is non-NULL, we'll only have
one instance of a MIDX open at one time, avoiding these problems.

To encourage this, drop the `struct multi_pack_index *` parameter from
`write_midx_internal()`, and rely instead on the `object_dir` to find
(or initialize) the correct MIDX instance.

Likewise, replace the call to `close_midx()` with
`close_object_store()`, since we're about to replace the MIDX with a new
one and should invalidate the object store's memory of any MIDX that
might have existed beforehand.

Note that this now forbids passing object directories that don't belong
to alternate repositories over `--object-dir`, since before we would
have happily opened a MIDX in any directory, but now restrict ourselves
to only those reachable by `r->objects->multi_pack_index` (and alternate
MIDXs that we can see by walking the `next` pointer).

As far as I can tell, supporting arbitrary directories with
`--object-dir` was a historical accident, since even the documentation
says `<alt>` when referring to the value passed to this option.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-01 13:56:43 -07:00
Taylor Blau
a241878ac7 object-store.h: teach for_each_packed_object to ignore kept packs
The next patch will reimplement a function that wants to iterate over
packed objects while ignoring packs which are marked as kept (either
in-core or on-disk).

Teach for_each_packed_object() to ignore all objects from those packs by
adding a new flag for each of the "kept" states that a pack can be in.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-29 23:23:39 -07:00
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
dd3c8a72a2 object-store: avoid extra ';' from KHASH_INIT
cf2dc1c238 (speed up alt_odb_usable() with many alternates, 2021-07-07)
introduces a KHASH_INIT invocation with a trailing ';', which while
commonly expected will trigger warnings with pedantic on both
clang[-Wextra-semi] and gcc[-Wpedantic], because that macro has already
a semicolon and is meant to be invoked without one.

while fixing the macro would be a worthy solution (specially considering
this is a common recurring problem), remove the extra ';' for now to
minimize churn.

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-09 09:01:30 -07:00
Eric Wong
92d8ed8ac1 oidtree: a crit-bit tree for odb_loose_cache
This saves 8K per `struct object_directory', meaning it saves
around 800MB in my case involving 100K alternates (half or more
of those alternates are unlikely to hold loose objects).

This is implemented in two parts: a generic, allocation-free
`cbtree' and the `oidtree' wrapper on top of it.  The latter
provides allocation using alloc_state as a memory pool to
improve locality and reduce free(3) overhead.

Unlike oid-array, the crit-bit tree does not require sorting.
Performance is bound by the key length, for oidtree that is
fixed at sizeof(struct object_id).  There's no need to have
256 oidtrees to mitigate the O(n log n) overhead like we did
with oid-array.

Being a prefix trie, it is natively suited for expanding short
object IDs via prefix-limited iteration in
`find_short_object_filename'.

On my busy workstation, p4205 performance seems to be roughly
unchanged (+/-8%).  Startup with 100K total alternates with no
loose objects seems around 10-20% faster on a hot cache.
(800MB in memory savings means more memory for the kernel FS
cache).

The generic cbtree implementation does impose some extra
overhead for oidtree in that it uses memcmp(3) on
"struct object_id" so it wastes cycles comparing 12 extra bytes
on SHA-1 repositories.  I've not yet explored reducing this
overhead, but I expect there are many places in our code base
where we'd want to investigate this.

More information on crit-bit trees: https://cr.yp.to/critbit.html

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-07 21:28:04 -07:00
Eric Wong
33f379eee6 make object_directory.loose_objects_subdir_seen a bitmap
There's no point in using 8 bits per-directory when 1 bit
will do.  This saves us 224 bytes per object directory, which
ends up being 22MB when dealing with 100K alternates.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-07 21:27:58 -07:00
Eric Wong
cf2dc1c238 speed up alt_odb_usable() with many alternates
With many alternates, the duplicate check in alt_odb_usable()
wastes many cycles doing repeated fspathcmp() on every existing
alternate.  Use a khash to speed up lookups by odb->path.

Since the kh_put_* API uses the supplied key without
duplicating it, we also take advantage of it to replace both
xstrdup() and strbuf_release() in link_alt_odb_entry() with
strbuf_detach() to avoid the allocation and copy.

In a test repository with 50K alternates and each of those 50K
alternates having one alternate each (for a total of 100K total
alternates); this speeds up lookup of a non-existent blob from
over 16 minutes to roughly 2.7 seconds on my busy workstation.

Note: all underlying git object directories were small and
unpacked with only loose objects and no packs.  Having to load
packs increases times significantly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-07 17:21:12 -07:00
Jeff King
20b031fede packfile: add kept-pack cache for find_kept_pack_entry()
In a recent patch we added a function 'find_kept_pack_entry()' to look
for an object only among kept packs.

While this function avoids doing any lookup work in non-kept packs, it
is still linear in the number of packs, since we have to traverse the
linked list of packs once per object. Let's cache a reduced version of
that list to save us time.

Note that this cache will last the lifetime of the program. We could
invalidate it on reprepare_packed_git(), but there's not much point in
being rigorous here:

  - we might already fail to notice new .keep packs showing up after the
    program starts. We only reprepare_packed_git() when we fail to find
    an object. But adding a new pack won't cause that to happen.
    Somebody repacking could add a new pack and delete an old one, but
    most of the time we'd have a descriptor or mmap open to the old
    pack anyway, so we might not even notice.

  - in pack-objects we already cache the .keep state at startup, since
    56dfeb6263 (pack-objects: compute local/ignore_pack_keep early,
    2016-07-29). So this is just extending that concept further.

  - we don't have to worry about any packed_git being removed; we always
    keep the old structs around, even after reprepare_packed_git()

We do defensively invalidate the cache in case the set of kept packs
being asked for changes (e.g., only in-core kept packs were cached, but
suddenly the caller also wants on-disk kept packs, too). In theory we
could build all three caches and switch between them, but it's not
necessary, since this patch (and series) never changes the set of kept
packs that it wants to inspect from the cache.

So that "optimization" is more about being defensive in the face of
future changes than it is about asking for multiple kinds of kept packs
in this patch.

Here are p5303 results (as always, measured against the kernel):

  Test                                        HEAD^                   HEAD
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  5303.5: repack (1)                          57.34(54.66+10.88)      56.98(54.36+10.98) -0.6%
  5303.6: repack with kept (1)                57.38(54.83+10.49)      57.17(54.97+10.26) -0.4%
  5303.11: repack (50)                        71.70(88.99+4.74)       71.62(88.48+5.08) -0.1%
  5303.12: repack with kept (50)              72.58(89.61+4.78)       71.56(88.80+4.59) -1.4%
  5303.17: repack (1000)                      217.19(491.72+14.25)    217.31(490.82+14.53) +0.1%
  5303.18: repack with kept (1000)            246.12(520.07+14.93)    217.08(490.37+15.10) -11.8%

and the --stdin-packs case, which scales a little bit better (although
not by that much even at 1,000 packs):

  5303.7: repack with --stdin-packs (1)       0.00(0.00+0.00)         0.00(0.00+0.00) =
  5303.13: repack with --stdin-packs (50)     3.43(11.75+0.24)        3.43(11.69+0.30) +0.0%
  5303.19: repack with --stdin-packs (1000)   130.50(307.15+7.66)     125.13(301.36+8.04) -4.1%

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-22 23:30:52 -08:00
Taylor Blau
2f4ba2a867 packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files
Specify the format of the on-disk reverse index 'pack-*.rev' file, as
well as prepare the code for the existence of such files.

The reverse index maps from pack relative positions (i.e., an index into
the array of object which is sorted by their offsets within the
packfile) to their position within the 'pack-*.idx' file. Today, this is
done by building up a list of (off_t, uint32_t) tuples for each object
(the off_t corresponding to that object's offset, and the uint32_t
corresponding to its position in the index). To convert between pack and
index position quickly, this array of tuples is radix sorted based on
its offset.

This has two major drawbacks:

First, the in-memory cost scales linearly with the number of objects in
a pack.  Each 'struct revindex_entry' is sizeof(off_t) +
sizeof(uint32_t) + padding bytes for a total of 16.

To observe this, force Git to load the reverse index by, for e.g.,
running 'git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)"'. When asking
for a single object in a fresh clone of the kernel, Git needs to
allocate 120+ MB of memory in order to hold the reverse index in memory.

Second, the cost to sort also scales with the size of the pack.
Luckily, this is a linear function since 'load_pack_revindex()' uses a
radix sort, but this cost still must be paid once per pack per process.

As an example, it takes ~60x longer to print the _size_ of an object as
it does to print that entire object's _contents_:

  Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj
    Time (mean ± σ):       3.4 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 3.3 ms, System: 2.1 ms]
    Range (min … max):     3.2 ms …   3.7 ms    726 runs

  Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj
    Time (mean ± σ):     210.3 ms ±   8.9 ms    [User: 188.2 ms, System: 23.2 ms]
    Range (min … max):   193.7 ms … 224.4 ms    13 runs

Instead, avoid computing and sorting the revindex once per process by
writing it to a file when the pack itself is generated.

The format is relatively straightforward. It contains an array of
uint32_t's, the length of which is equal to the number of objects in the
pack.  The ith entry in this table contains the index position of the
ith object in the pack, where "ith object in the pack" is determined by
pack offset.

One thing that the on-disk format does _not_ contain is the full (up to)
eight-byte offset corresponding to each object. This is something that
the in-memory revindex contains (it stores an off_t in 'struct
revindex_entry' along with the same uint32_t that the on-disk format
has). Omit it in the on-disk format, since knowing the index position
for some object is sufficient to get a constant-time lookup in the
pack-*.idx file to ask for an object's offset within the pack.

This trades off between the on-disk size of the 'pack-*.rev' file for
runtime to chase down the offset for some object. Even though the lookup
is constant time, the constant is heavier, since it can potentially
involve two pointer walks in v2 indexes (one to access the 4-byte offset
table, and potentially a second to access the double wide offset table).

Consider trying to map an object's pack offset to a relative position
within that pack. In a cold-cache scenario, more page faults occur while
switching between binary searching through the reverse index and
searching through the *.idx file for an object's offset. Sure enough,
with a cold cache (writing '3' into '/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' after
'sync'ing), printing out the entire object's contents is still
marginally faster than printing its size:

  Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj >/dev/null
    Time (mean ± σ):      22.6 ms ±   0.5 ms    [User: 2.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms]
    Range (min … max):    21.4 ms …  23.5 ms    41 runs

  Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj >/dev/null
    Time (mean ± σ):      17.2 ms ±   0.7 ms    [User: 2.8 ms, System: 5.5 ms]
    Range (min … max):    15.6 ms …  18.2 ms    45 runs

(Numbers taken in the kernel after cheating and using the next patch to
generate a reverse index). There are a couple of approaches to improve
cold cache performance not pursued here:

  - We could include the object offsets in the reverse index format.
    Predictably, this does result in fewer page faults, but it triples
    the size of the file, while simultaneously duplicating a ton of data
    already available in the .idx file. (This was the original way I
    implemented the format, and it did show
    `--batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'` winning out against `--batch`.)

    On the other hand, this increase in size also results in a large
    block-cache footprint, which could potentially hurt other workloads.

  - We could store the mapping from pack to index position in more
    cache-friendly way, like constructing a binary search tree from the
    table and writing the values in breadth-first order. This would
    result in much better locality, but the price you pay is trading
    O(1) lookup in 'pack_pos_to_index()' for an O(log n) one (since you
    can no longer directly index the table).

So, neither of these approaches are taken here. (Thankfully, the format
is versioned, so we are free to pursue these in the future.) But, cold
cache performance likely isn't interesting outside of one-off cases like
asking for the size of an object directly. In real-world usage, Git is
often performing many operations in the revindex (i.e., asking about
many objects rather than a single one).

The trade-off is worth it, since we will avoid the vast majority of the
cost of generating the revindex that the extra pointer chase will look
like noise in the following patch's benchmarks.

This patch describes the format and prepares callers (like in
pack-revindex.c) to be able to read *.rev files once they exist. An
implementation of the writer will appear in the next patch, and callers
will gradually begin to start using the writer in the patches that
follow after that.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-25 18:32:43 -08:00
Jonathan Tan
1d8d9cb620 sha1-file: introduce no-lazy-fetch has_object()
There have been a few bugs wherein Git fetches missing objects whenever
the existence of an object is checked, even though it does not need to
perform such a fetch. To resolve these bugs, we could look at all the
places that has_object_file() (or a similar function) is used. As a
first step, introduce a new function has_object() that checks for the
existence of an object, with a default behavior of not fetching if the
object is missing and the repository is a partial clone. As we verify
each has_object_file() (or similar) usage, we can replace it with
has_object(), and we will know that we are done when we can delete
has_object_file() (and the other similar functions).

Also, the new function has_object() has more appropriate defaults:
besides not fetching, it also does not recheck packed storage.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-06 13:01:02 -07:00
brian m. carlson
629dffc461 packfile: compute and use the index CRC offset
Both v2 pack index files and the v3 format specified as part of the
NewHash work have similar data starting at the CRC table.  Much of the
existing code wants to read either this table or the offset entries
following it, and in doing so computes the offset each time.

In order to share as much code between v2 and v3, compute the offset of
the CRC table and store it when the pack is opened.  Use this value to
compute offsets to not only the CRC table, but to the offset entries
beyond it.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-27 10:07:07 -07:00
Jeff King
fe299ec5ae oid_array: rename source file from sha1-array
We renamed the actual data structure in 910650d2f8 (Rename sha1_array to
oid_array, 2017-03-31), but the file is still called sha1-array. Besides
being slightly confusing, it makes it more annoying to grep for leftover
occurrences of "sha1" in various files, because the header is included
in so many places.

Let's complete the transition by renaming the source and header files
(and fixing up a few comment references).

I kept the "-" in the name, as that seems to be our style; cf.
fc1395f4a4 (sha1_file.c: rename to use dash in file name, 2018-04-10).
We also have oidmap.h and oidset.h without any punctuation, but those
are "struct oidmap" and "struct oidset" in the code. We _could_ make
this "oidarray" to match, but somehow it looks uglier to me because of
the length of "array" (plus it would be a very invasive patch for little
gain).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-30 10:59:08 -07:00