When diffing trees, we recurse to handle subtrees. That means we may run
out of stack space and segfault. Let's teach this code path about
core.maxTreeDepth in order to fail more gracefully.
As with the previous patch, we have no way to return an error (and other
tree-loading problems would just cause us to die()). So we'll likewise
call die() if we exceed the maximum depth.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code simplification.
* jc/tree-walk-drop-base-offset:
tree-walk: drop unused base_offset from do_match()
tree-walk: lose base_offset that is never used in tree_entry_interesting
The tree_entry_interesting() function takes base_offset, allowing
its callers to potentially pass a non-zero number to skip the early
part of the path string.
The feature is never exercised and we do not even know what bugs are
lurking there, as all callers pass 0 to the parameter.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This also made it clear that several .c files depended upon various
things that oidset included, but had omitted the direct #include for
those headers. Add those now.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
S_DIFFTREE_IFXMIN_NEQ is *only* used in tree-diff.c, so there is no
point exposing it in cache.h. Move it to tree-diff.c.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change code that was added in 8f4f8f4579 (guard against new pathspec
magic in pathspec matching code, 2013-07-14) to use the BUG() macro
instead of emitting a "fatal" message with the "__FILE__"-name and
"__LINE__"-numbers.
The original code predated the existence of the BUG() function, which
was added in d8193743e0 (usage.c: add BUG() function, 2017-05-12).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
b8ba412bf7 (tree-diff: avoid alloca for large allocations, 2016-06-07)
adds a way to route some bigger allocations out of the stack and free
them through the addition of two conveniently named macros, but leaves
the calls to free the xalloca part, which could be also in the heap,
if the system doesn't HAVE_ALLOCA_H (ex: macOS and other BSD).
Add the missing free call, xalloca_free(), which is a noop if we
allocated memory in the stack frame, but a real free() if we
allocated in the heap instead, and while at it, change the expression
to match in both macros for ease of readability.
This avoids a leak reported by LSAN while running t0000 but that
wouldn't fail the test (which is fixed in the next patch):
SUMMARY: LeakSanitizer: 1034 byte(s) leaked in 15 allocation(s).
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Up until recently, object IDs did not have an algorithm member, only a
hash. Consequently, it was possible to share one null (all-zeros)
object ID among all hash algorithms. Now that we're going to be
handling objects from multiple hash algorithms, it's important to make
sure that all object IDs have a correct algorithm field.
Introduce a per-algorithm null OID, and add it to struct hash_algo.
Introduce a wrapper function as well, and use it everywhere we used to
use the null_oid constant.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit e3696980 (diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changes,
2020-03-30) intended to create a mechanism to short-circuit a diff
calculation after a certain number of paths were modified. By
incrementing a "num_changes" counter throughout the recursive
ll_diff_tree_paths(), this was supposed to match the number of changes
that would be written into the changed-path Bloom filters.
Unfortunately, this was not implemented correctly and instead misses
simple cases like file modifications. This then does not stop very
large changed-path filters from being written (unless they add or remove
many files).
To start, change the implementation in ll_diff_tree_paths() to instead
use the global diff_queue_diff struct's 'nr' member as the count. This
is a way to simplify the logic instead of making more mistakes in the
complicated diff code.
This has a drawback: the diff_queue_diff struct only lists the paths
corresponding to blob changes, not their leading directories. Thus,
get_or_compute_bloom_filter() needs an additional check to see if the
hashmap with the leading directories becomes too large.
One reason why this was not caught by test cases was that the test in
t4216-log-bloom.sh that was supposed to check this "too many changes"
condition only checked this on the initial commit of a repository. The
old logic counted these values correctly. Update this test in a few
ways:
1. Use GIT_TEST_BLOOM_SETTINGS_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS to reduce the limit,
allowing smaller commits to engage with this logic.
2. Create several interesting cases of edits, adds, removes, and mode
changes (in the second commit). By testing both sides of the
inequality with the *_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS variable, we can see that
the count is exactly correct, so none of these changes are missed
or over-counted.
3. Use the trace2 data value filter_found_large to verify that these
commits are on the correct side of the limit.
Another way to verify the behavior is correct is through performance
tests. By testing on my local copies of the Git repository and the Linux
kernel repository, I could measure the effect of these short-circuits
when computing a fresh commit-graph file with changed-path Bloom filters
using the command
GIT_TEST_BLOOM_SETTINGS_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS=N time \
git commit-graph write --reachable --changed-paths
and reporting the wall time and resulting commit-graph size.
For Git, the results are
| | N=1 | N=10 | N=512 |
|--------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
| HEAD~1 | 10.90s 9.18MB | 11.11s 9.34MB | 11.31s 9.35MB |
| HEAD | 9.21s 8.62MB | 11.11s 9.29MB | 11.29s 9.34MB |
For Linux, the results are
| | N=1 | N=20 | N=512 |
|--------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
| HEAD~1 | 61.28s 64.3MB | 76.9s 72.6MB | 77.6s 72.6MB |
| HEAD | 49.44s 56.3MB | 68.7s 65.9MB | 69.2s 65.9MB |
Naturally, the improvement becomes much less as the limit grows, as
fewer commits satisfy the short-circuit.
Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ll_diff_tree_oid() has only ever returned 0 [1], so it's return value
is basically useless. It's only caller diff_tree_oid() has only ever
returned the return value of ll_diff_tree_oid() as-is [2], so its
return value is just as useless. Most of diff_tree_oid()'s callers
simply ignore its return value, except:
- diff_root_tree_oid() is a thin wrapper around diff_tree_oid() and
returns with its return value, but all of diff_root_tree_oid()'s
callers ignore its return value.
- rev_compare_tree() and rev_same_tree_as_empty() do look at the
return value in a condition, but, since the return value is always
0, the former's < 0 condition is never fulfilled, while the
latter's >= 0 condition is always fulfilled.
So let's drop the return value of ll_diff_tree_oid(), diff_tree_oid()
and diff_root_tree_oid(), and drop those conditions from
rev_compare_tree() and rev_same_tree_as_empty() as well.
[1] ll_diff_tree_oid() and its ancestors have been returning only 0
ever since it was introduced as diff_tree() in 9174026cfe (Add
"diff-tree" program to show which files have changed between two
trees., 2005-04-09).
[2] diff_tree_oid() traces back to diff-tree.c:main() in 9174026cfe as
well.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When computing the changed-paths bloom filters for the commit-graph,
we limit the size of the filter by restricting the number of paths
in the diff. Instead of computing a large diff and then ignoring the
result, it is better to halt the diff computation early.
Create a new "max_changes" option in struct diff_options. If non-zero,
then halt the diff computation after discovering strictly more changed
paths. This includes paths corresponding to trees that change.
Use this max_changes option in the bloom filter calculations. This
reduces the time taken to compute the filters for the Linux kernel
repo from 2m50s to 2m35s. On a large internal repository with ~500
commits that perform tree-wide changes, the time reduced from
6m15s to 3m48s.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While at there, clean up the_repo usage in builtin/merge-tree.c a tiny
bit.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
struct diff_filespec defines mode to be an 'unsigned short'. Several
other places in the API which we'd like to interact with using a
diff_filespec used a plain unsigned (or unsigned int). This caused
problems when taking addresses, so switch to unsigned short.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code to walk tree objects has been taught that we may be
working with object names that are not computed with SHA-1.
* bc/tree-walk-oid:
cache: make oidcpy always copy GIT_MAX_RAWSZ bytes
tree-walk: store object_id in a separate member
match-trees: use hashcpy to splice trees
match-trees: compute buffer offset correctly when splicing
tree-walk: copy object ID before use
When parsing a tree, we read the object ID directly out of the tree
buffer. This is normally fine, but such an object ID cannot be used with
oidcpy, which copies GIT_MAX_RAWSZ bytes, because if we are using SHA-1,
there may not be that many bytes to copy.
Instead, store the object ID in a separate struct member. Since we can
no longer efficiently compute the path length, store that information as
well in struct name_entry. Ensure we only copy the object ID into the
new buffer if the path length is nonzero, as some callers will pass us
an empty path with no object ID following it, and we will not want to
read past the end of the buffer.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to support :(attr) when matching pathspec on a tree,
tree_entry_interesting() needs to take an index (because
git_check_attr() needs it). This is the preparation step for it. This
also makes it clearer what index we fall back to when looking up
attributes during an unpack-trees operation: the source index.
This also fixes revs->pruning.repo initialization that should have
been done in 2abf350385 (revision.c: remove implicit dependency on
the_index - 2018-09-21). Without it, skip_uninteresting() will
dereference a NULL pointer through this call chain
get_revision(revs)
get_revision_internal
get_revision_1
try_to_simplify_commit
rev_compare_tree
diff_tree_oid(..., &revs->pruning)
ll_diff_tree_oid
diff_tree_paths
ll_diff_tree
skip_uninteresting
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various codepaths in the core-ish part learn to work on an
arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default
instance "the_index".
* nd/the-index: (23 commits)
revision.c: reduce implicit dependency the_repository
revision.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
ws.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
tree-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
submodule.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
line-range.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
userdiff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
rerere.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
sha1-file.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
patch-ids.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
merge-blobs.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
ll-merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff-lib.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
read-cache.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
grep.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff.c: remove the_index dependency in textconv() functions
blame.c: rename "repo" argument to "r"
combine-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
...
A new variant repo_diff_setup() is added that takes 'struct repository *'
and diff_setup() becomes a thin macro around it that is protected by
NO_THE_REPOSITORY_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS, similar to NO_THE_INDEX_....
The plan is these macros will always be defined for all library files
and the macros are only accessible in builtin/
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the flip side of the previous two patches: checking
for a non-zero oidcmp() can be more strictly expressed as
inequality. Like those patches, we write "!= 0" in the
coccinelle transformation, which covers by isomorphism the
more common:
if (oidcmp(E1, E2))
As with the previous two patches, this patch can be achieved
almost entirely by running "make coccicheck"; the only
differences are manual line-wrap fixes to match the original
code.
There is one thing to note for anybody replicating this,
though: coccinelle 1.0.4 seems to miss the case in
builtin/tag.c, even though it's basically the same as all
the others. Running with 1.0.7 does catch this, so
presumably it's just a coccinelle bug that was fixed in the
interim.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the few conditional uses of FREE_AND_NULL(x) to be
unconditional. As noted in the standard[1] free(NULL) is perfectly
valid, so we might as well leave this check up to the C library.
1. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/free.html
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the `DIFF_OPT_SET` macro and instead set the flags directly.
This conversion is done using the following semantic patch:
@@
expression E;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_SET(&E, fld)
+ E.flags.fld = 1
@@
type T;
T *ptr;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_SET(ptr, fld)
+ ptr->flags.fld = 1
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the `DIFF_OPT_TST` macro and instead access the flags directly.
This conversion is done using the following semantic patch:
@@
expression E;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_TST(&E, fld)
+ E.flags.fld
@@
type T;
T *ptr;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_TST(ptr, fld)
+ ptr->flags.fld
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All callers of fill_tree_descriptor() have been converted to object_id
already, so convert that function as well. As a nice side-effect we get
rid of NULL checks in tree-diff.c, as fill_tree_descriptor() already
does them for us.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The object_id pointers can be NULL for invalid entries. Don't try to
dereference them and pass NULL along to fill_tree_descriptor() instead,
which handles them just fine.
Found with Clang's UBSan.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
* ab/free-and-null:
*.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro
coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL
Apply the result of the just-added coccinelle rule. This manually
excludes a few occurrences, mostly things that resulted in many
FREE_AND_NULL() on one line, that'll be manually fixed in a subsequent
change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert diff_change to take a struct object_id. In addition convert the
function pointer type 'change_fn_t' to also take a struct object_id.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert diff_addremove to take a struct object_id. In addtion convert
the function pointer type 'add_remove_fn_t' to also take a struct
object_id.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 72441af (tree-diff: rework diff_tree() to generate
diffs for multiparent cases as well, 2014-04-07) introduced
the use of alloca so that the common cases of commits with 1
or 2 parents would not be adversely affected by going
through the multi-parent code.
However, our xalloca is not ideal when the number of parents
grows very large:
1. If the requested size is too large for our stack,
alloca() has no way to tell us, and we simply segfault
while trying to access the memory.
2. It does not use our usual memory_limit_check() logic.
I measured, and alloca is indeed buying us a very small
speedup over xmalloc()/free(). So we'd want to keep
something like it.
This patch simply puts a conditional in place at each
callsite: we use alloca for common known-small numbers of
parents, and otherwise use the heap. We are technically
still vulnerable to (1), but no more so than if we simply
put a few dozen bytes on the stack, which we must do all the
time anyway. And likewise, we technically miss a memory
limit check if it is tiny, but such a limit is pointless.
An alternative to this would be implement something like:
struct tree *tp, tp_fallback[2];
if (nparent <= ARRAY_SIZE(tp_fallback))
tp = tp_fallback;
else
ALLOC_ARRAY(tp, nparent);
...
if (tp != tp_fallback)
free(tp);
That would let us drop our xalloca() portability code
entirely. But in my measurements, this seemed to perform
slightly worse than the xalloca solution.
Note in the example above, and in the patch below, I've used
ALLOC_ARRAY() to replace the manual xmalloc(nr * sizeof(*x)).
Besides being shorter, this has the bonus that one cannot
accidentally overflow a size_t during that computation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function takes a pointer to a pathspec structure, and releases
the resources held by it, but does not free() the structure itself.
Such a function should be called "clear", not "free".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A combine_diff_path struct has two "flex" members allocated
alongside the struct: a string to hold the pathname, and an
array of parent pointers. We use an "int" to compute this,
meaning we may easily overflow it if the pathname is
extremely long.
We can fix this by using size_t, and checking for overflow
with the st_add helper.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A combine_diff_path struct has two "flex" members allocated
alongside the struct: a string to hold the pathname, and an
array of parent pointers. We use an "int" to compute this,
meaning we may easily overflow it if the pathname is
extremely long.
We can fix this by using size_t, and checking for overflow
with the st_add helper.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also, convert a constant to GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously diff_tree(), which is now named ll_diff_tree_sha1(), was
generating diff_filepair(s) for two trees t1 and t2, and that was
usually used for a commit as t1=HEAD~, and t2=HEAD - i.e. to see changes
a commit introduces.
In Git, however, we have fundamentally built flexibility in that a
commit can have many parents - 1 for a plain commit, 2 for a simple merge,
but also more than 2 for merging several heads at once.
For merges there is a so called combine-diff, which shows diff, a merge
introduces by itself, omitting changes done by any parent. That works
through first finding paths, that are different to all parents, and then
showing generalized diff, with separate columns for +/- for each parent.
The code lives in combine-diff.c .
There is an impedance mismatch, however, in that a commit could
generally have any number of parents, and that while diffing trees, we
divide cases for 2-tree diffs and more-than-2-tree diffs. I mean there
is no special casing for multiple parents commits in e.g.
revision-walker .
That impedance mismatch *hurts* *performance* *badly* for generating
combined diffs - in "combine-diff: optimize combine_diff_path
sets intersection" I've already removed some slowness from it, but from
the timings provided there, it could be seen, that combined diffs still
cost more than an order of magnitude more cpu time, compared to diff for
usual commits, and that would only be an optimistic estimate, if we take
into account that for e.g. linux.git there is only one merge for several
dozens of plain commits.
That slowness comes from the fact that currently, while generating
combined diff, a lot of time is spent computing diff(commit,commit^2)
just to only then intersect that huge diff to almost small set of files
from diff(commit,commit^1).
That's because at present, to compute combine-diff, for first finding
paths, that "every parent touches", we use the following combine-diff
property/definition:
D(A,P1...Pn) = D(A,P1) ^ ... ^ D(A,Pn) (w.r.t. paths)
where
D(A,P1...Pn) is combined diff between commit A, and parents Pi
and
D(A,Pi) is usual two-tree diff Pi..A
So if any of that D(A,Pi) is huge, tracting 1 n-parent combine-diff as n
1-parent diffs and intersecting results will be slow.
And usually, for linux.git and other topic-based workflows, that
D(A,P2) is huge, because, if merge-base of A and P2, is several dozens
of merges (from A, via first parent) below, that D(A,P2) will be diffing
sum of merges from several subsystems to 1 subsystem.
The solution is to avoid computing n 1-parent diffs, and to find
changed-to-all-parents paths via scanning A's and all Pi's trees
simultaneously, at each step comparing their entries, and based on that
comparison, populate paths result, and deduce we could *skip*
*recursing* into subdirectories, if at least for 1 parent, sha1 of that
dir tree is the same as in A. That would save us from doing significant
amount of needless work.
Such approach is very similar to what diff_tree() does, only there we
deal with scanning only 2 trees simultaneously, and for n+1 tree, the
logic is a bit more complex:
D(T,P1...Pn) calculation scheme
-------------------------------
D(T,P1...Pn) = D(T,P1) ^ ... ^ D(T,Pn) (regarding resulting paths set)
D(T,Pj) - diff between T..Pj
D(T,P1...Pn) - combined diff from T to parents P1,...,Pn
We start from all trees, which are sorted, and compare their entries in
lock-step:
T P1 Pn
- - -
|t| |p1| |pn|
|-| |--| ... |--| imin = argmin(p1...pn)
| | | | | |
|-| |--| |--|
|.| |. | |. |
. . .
. . .
at any time there could be 3 cases:
1) t < p[imin];
2) t > p[imin];
3) t = p[imin].
Schematic deduction of what every case means, and what to do, follows:
1) t < p[imin] -> ∀j t ∉ Pj -> "+t" ∈ D(T,Pj) -> D += "+t"; t↓
2) t > p[imin]
2.1) ∃j: pj > p[imin] -> "-p[imin]" ∉ D(T,Pj) -> D += ø; ∀ pi=p[imin] pi↓
2.2) ∀i pi = p[imin] -> pi ∉ T -> "-pi" ∈ D(T,Pi) -> D += "-p[imin]"; ∀i pi↓
3) t = p[imin]
3.1) ∃j: pj > p[imin] -> "+t" ∈ D(T,Pj) -> only pi=p[imin] remains to investigate
3.2) pi = p[imin] -> investigate δ(t,pi)
|
|
v
3.1+3.2) looking at δ(t,pi) ∀i: pi=p[imin] - if all != ø ->
⎧δ(t,pi) - if pi=p[imin]
-> D += ⎨
⎩"+t" - if pi>p[imin]
in any case t↓ ∀ pi=p[imin] pi↓
~
For comparison, here is how diff_tree() works:
D(A,B) calculation scheme
-------------------------
A B
- -
|a| |b| a < b -> a ∉ B -> D(A,B) += +a a↓
|-| |-| a > b -> b ∉ A -> D(A,B) += -b b↓
| | | | a = b -> investigate δ(a,b) a↓ b↓
|-| |-|
|.| |.|
. .
. .
~~~~~~~~
This patch generalizes diff tree-walker to work with arbitrary number of
parents as described above - i.e. now there is a resulting tree t, and
some parents trees tp[i] i=[0..nparent). The generalization builds on
the fact that usual diff
D(A,B)
is by definition the same as combined diff
D(A,[B]),
so if we could rework the code for common case and make it be not slower
for nparent=1 case, usual diff(t1,t2) generation will not be slower, and
multiparent diff tree-walker would greatly benefit generating
combine-diff.
What we do is as follows:
1) diff tree-walker ll_diff_tree_sha1() is internally reworked to be
a paths generator (new name diff_tree_paths()), with each generated path
being `struct combine_diff_path` with info for path, new sha1,mode and for
every parent which sha1,mode it was in it.
2) From that info, we can still generate usual diff queue with
struct diff_filepairs, via "exporting" generated
combine_diff_path, if we know we run for nparent=1 case.
(see emit_diff() which is now named emit_diff_first_parent_only())
3) In order for diff_can_quit_early(), which checks
DIFF_OPT_TST(opt, HAS_CHANGES))
to work, that exporting have to be happening not in bulk, but
incrementally, one diff path at a time.
For such consumers, there is a new callback in diff_options
introduced:
->pathchange(opt, struct combine_diff_path *)
which, if set to !NULL, is called for every generated path.
(see new compat ll_diff_tree_sha1() wrapper around new paths
generator for setup)
4) The paths generation itself, is reworked from previous
ll_diff_tree_sha1() code according to "D(A,P1...Pn) calculation
scheme" provided above:
On the start we allocate [nparent] arrays in place what was
earlier just for one parent tree.
then we just generalize loops, and comparison according to the
algorithm.
Some notes(*):
1) alloca(), for small arrays, is used for "runs not slower for
nparent=1 case than before" goal - if we change it to xmalloc()/free()
the timings get ~1% worse. For alloca() we use just-introduced
xalloca/xalloca_free compatibility wrappers, so it should not be a
portability problem.
2) For every parent tree, we need to keep a tag, whether entry from that
parent equals to entry from minimal parent. For performance reasons I'm
keeping that tag in entry's mode field in unused bit - see S_IFXMIN_NEQ.
Not doing so, we'd need to alloca another [nparent] array, which hurts
performance.
3) For emitted paths, memory could be reused, if we know the path was
processed via callback and will not be needed later. We use efficient
hand-made realloc-style path_appendnew(), that saves us from ~1-1.5%
of potential additional slowdown.
4) goto(s) are used in several places, as the code executes a little bit
faster with lowered register pressure.
Also
- we should now check for FIND_COPIES_HARDER not only when two entries
names are the same, and their hashes are equal, but also for a case,
when a path was removed from some of all parents having it.
The reason is, if we don't, that path won't be emitted at all (see
"a > xi" case), and we'll just skip it, and FIND_COPIES_HARDER wants
all paths - with diff or without - to be emitted, to be later analyzed
for being copies sources.
The new check is only necessary for nparent >1, as for nparent=1 case
xmin_eqtotal always =1 =nparent, and a path is always added to diff as
removal.
~~~~~~~~
Timings for
# without -c, i.e. testing only nparent=1 case
`git log --raw --no-abbrev --no-renames`
before and after the patch are as follows:
navy.git linux.git v3.10..v3.11
before 0.611s 1.889s
after 0.619s 1.907s
slowdown 1.3% 0.9%
This timings show we did no harm to usual diff(tree1,tree2) generation.
From the table we can see that we actually did ~1% slowdown, but I think
I've "earned" that 1% in the previous patch ("tree-diff: reuse base
str(buf) memory on sub-tree recursion", HEAD~~) so for nparent=1 case,
net timings stays approximately the same.
The output also stayed the same.
(*) If we revert 1)-4) to more usual techniques, for nparent=1 case,
we'll get ~2-2.5% of additional slowdown, which I've tried to avoid, as
"do no harm for nparent=1 case" rule.
For linux.git, combined diff will run an order of magnitude faster and
appropriate timings will be provided in the next commit, as we'll be
taking advantage of the new diff tree-walker for combined-diff
generation there.
P.S. and combined diff is not some exotic/for-play-only stuff - for
example for a program I write to represent Git archives as readonly
filesystem, there is initial scan with
`git log --reverse --raw --no-abbrev --no-renames -c`
to extract log of what was created/changed when, as a result building a
map
{} sha1 -> in which commit (and date) a content was added
that `-c` means also show combined diff for merges, and without them, if
a merge is non-trivial (merges changes from two parents with both having
separate changes to a file), or an evil one, the map will not be full,
i.e. some valid sha1 would be absent from it.
That case was my initial motivation for combined diffs speedup.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of allocating it all the time for every subtree in
ll_diff_tree_sha1, let's allocate it once in diff_tree_sha1, and then
all callee just use it in stacking style, without memory allocations.
This should be faster, and for me this change gives the following
slight speedups for
git log --raw --no-abbrev --no-renames --format='%H'
navy.git linux.git v3.10..v3.11
before 0.618s 1.903s
after 0.611s 1.889s
speedup 1.1% 0.7%
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As described in previous commit, when recursing into sub-trees, we can
use lower-level tree walker, since its interface is now sha1 based.
The change is ok, because diff_tree_sha1() only invokes
ll_diff_tree_sha1(), and also, if base is empty, try_to_follow_renames().
But base is not empty here, as we have added a path and '/' before
recursing.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the next commit this will allow to reduce intermediate calls, when
recursing into subtrees - at that stage we know only subtree sha1, and
it is natural for tree walker to start from that phase. For now we do
diff_tree
show_path
diff_tree_sha1
diff_tree
...
and the change will allow to reduce it to
diff_tree
show_path
diff_tree
Also, it will allow to omit allocating strbuf for each subtree, and just
reuse the common strbuf via playing with its len.
The above-mentioned improvements go in the next 2 patches.
The downside is that try_to_follow_renames(), if active, we cause
re-reading of 2 initial trees, which was negligible based on my timings,
and which is outweighed cogently by the upsides.
NOTE To keep with the current interface and semantics, I needed to
rename the function from diff_tree() to diff_tree_sha1(). As
diff_tree_sha1() was already used, and the function we are talking here
is its more low-level helper, let's use convention for prefixing
such helpers with "ll_". So the final renaming is
diff_tree() -> ll_diff_tree_sha1()
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
