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René Scharfe
35d803bc9a use SWAP macro
Apply the semantic patch swap.cocci to convert hand-rolled swaps to use
the macro SWAP.  The resulting code is shorter and easier to read, the
object code is effectively unchanged.

The patch for object.c had to be hand-edited in order to preserve the
comment before the change; Coccinelle tried to eat it for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-30 14:17:00 -08:00
René Scharfe
45ccef87b3 use COPY_ARRAY
Add a semantic patch for converting certain calls of memcpy(3) to
COPY_ARRAY() and apply that transformation to the code base.  The result
is
 shorter and safer code.  For now only consider calls where source and
destination have the same type, or in other words: easy cases.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-25 16:44:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
11529ecec9 Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc'
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().

* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
  ...
2016-02-26 13:37:16 -08:00
Jeff King
b32fa95fd8 convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
Each of these cases can be converted to use ALLOC_ARRAY or
REALLOC_ARRAY, which has two advantages:

  1. It automatically checks the array-size multiplication
     for overflow.

  2. It always uses sizeof(*array) for the element-size,
     so that it can never go out of sync with the declared
     type of the array.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 14:51:09 -08:00
Jeff King
9d98bbf578 pack-revindex: store entries directly in packed_git
A pack_revindex struct has two elements: the revindex
entries themselves, and a pointer to the packed_git. We need
both to do lookups, because only the latter knows things
like the number of objects in the pack.

Now that packed_git contains the pack_revindex struct it's
just as easy to pass around the packed_git itself, and we do
not need the extra back-pointer.

We can instead just store the entries directly in the pack.
All functions which took a pack_revindex now just take a
packed_git. We still lazy-load in find_pack_revindex, so
most callers are unaffected.

The exception is the bitmap code, which computes the
revindex and caches the pointer when we load the bitmaps. We
can continue to load, drop the extra cache pointer, and just
access bitmap_git.pack.revindex directly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-21 14:36:28 -08:00
Jeff King
f4015337da pack-revindex: drop hash table
The main entry point to the pack-revindex code is
find_pack_revindex(). This calls revindex_for_pack(), which
lazily computes and caches the revindex for the pack.

We store the cache in a very simple hash table. It's created
by init_pack_revindex(), which inserts an entry for every
packfile we know about, and we never grow or shrink the
hash. If we ever need the revindex for a pack that isn't in
the hash, we die() with an internal error.

This can lead to a race, because we may load more packs
after having called init_pack_revindex(). For example,
imagine we have one process which needs to look at the
revindex for a variety of objects (e.g., cat-file's
"%(objectsize:disk)" format).  Simultaneously, git-gc is
running, which is doing a `git repack -ad`. We might hit a
sequence like:

  1. We need the revidx for some packed object. We call
     find_pack_revindex() and end up in init_pack_revindex()
     to create the hash table for all packs we know about.

  2. We look up another object and can't find it, because
     the repack has removed the pack it's in. We re-scan the
     pack directory and find a new pack containing the
     object. It gets added to our packed_git list.

  3. We call find_pack_revindex() for the new object, which
     hits revindex_for_pack() for our new pack. It can't
     find the packed_git in the revindex hash, and dies.

You could also replace the `repack` above with a push or
fetch to create a new pack, though these are less likely
(you would have to somehow learn about the new objects to
look them up).

Prior to 1a6d8b9 (do not discard revindex when re-preparing
packfiles, 2014-01-15), this was safe, as we threw away the
revindex whenever we re-scanned the pack directory (and thus
re-created the revindex hash on the fly). However, we don't
want to simply revert that commit, as it was solving a
different race.

So we have a few options:

  - We can fix the race in 1a6d8b9 differently, by having
    the bitmap code look in the revindex hash instead of
    caching the pointer. But this would introduce a lot of
    extra hash lookups for common bitmap operations.

  - We could teach the revindex to dynamically add new packs
    to the hash table. This would perform the same, but
    would mean adding extra code to the revindex hash (which
    currently cannot be resized at all).

  - We can get rid of the hash table entirely. There is
    exactly one revindex per pack, so we can just store it
    in the packed_git struct. Since it's initialized lazily,
    it does not add to the startup cost.

    This is the best of both worlds: less code and fewer
    hash table lookups.  The original code likely avoided
    this in the name of encapsulation. But the packed_git
    and reverse_index code are fairly intimate already, so
    it's not much of a loss.

This patch implements the final option. It's a minimal
conversion that retains the pack_revindex struct. No callers
need to change, and we can do further cleanup in a follow-on
patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-21 14:36:11 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
56a1a3ab44 Silence GCC's "cast of pointer to integer of a different size" warning
When calculating hashes from pointers, it actually makes sense to cut
off the most significant bits. In that case, said warning does not make
a whole lot of sense.

So let's just work around it by casting the pointer first to intptr_t
and then casting up/down to the final integral type.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-26 13:24:03 -07:00
Brian Gesiak
48d547fb38 pack-revindex.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
xcalloc() takes two arguments: the number of elements and their size.
init_pack_revindex() passes the arguments in reverse order, passing the
size of a pack_revindex, followed by the number to allocate.

Rearrange them so they are in the correct order.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gesiak <modocache@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-27 14:02:45 -07:00
Jeff King
1a6d8b9148 do not discard revindex when re-preparing packfiles
When an object lookup fails, we re-read the objects/pack
directory to pick up any new packfiles that may have been
created since our last read. We also discard any pack
revindex structs we've allocated.

The discarding is a problem for the pack-bitmap code, which keeps
a pointer to the revindex for the bitmapped pack. After the
discard, the pointer is invalid, and we may read free()d
memory.

Other revindex users do not keep a bare pointer to the
revindex; instead, they always access it through
revindex_for_pack(), which lazily builds the revindex. So
one solution is to teach the pack-bitmap code a similar
trick. It would be slightly less efficient, but probably not
all that noticeable.

However, it turns out this discarding is not actually
necessary. When we call reprepare_packed_git, we do not
throw away our old pack list. We keep the existing entries,
and only add in new ones. So there is no safety problem; we
will still have the pack struct that matches each revindex.
The packfile itself may go away, of course, but we are
already prepared to handle that, and it may happen outside
of reprepare_packed_git anyway.

Throwing away the revindex may save some RAM if the pack
never gets reused (about 12 bytes per object). But it also
wastes some CPU time (to regenerate the index) if the pack
does get reused. It's hard to say which is more valuable,
but in either case, it happens very rarely (only when we
race with a simultaneous repack). Just leaving the revindex
in place is simple and safe both for current and future
code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-16 14:33:46 -08:00
Vicent Marti
92e5c77c37 revindex: export new APIs
Allow users to efficiently lookup consecutive entries that are expected
to be found on the same revindex by exporting `find_revindex_position`:
this function takes a pointer to revindex itself, instead of looking up
the proper revindex for a given packfile on each call.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-24 15:44:45 -07:00
Jeff King
8b8dfd5132 pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindex
The pack revindex stores the offsets of the objects in the
pack in sorted order, allowing us to easily find the on-disk
size of each object. To compute it, we populate an array
with the offsets from the sha1-sorted idx file, and then use
qsort to order it by offsets.

That does O(n log n) offset comparisons, and profiling shows
that we spend most of our time in cmp_offset. However, since
we are sorting on a simple off_t, we can use numeric sorts
that perform better. A radix sort can run in O(k*n), where k
is the number of "digits" in our number. For a 64-bit off_t,
using 16-bit "digits" gives us k=4.

On the linux.git repo, with about 3M objects to sort, this
yields a 400% speedup. Here are the best-of-five numbers for
running

  echo HEAD | git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)

on a fully packed repository, which is dominated by time
spent building the pack revindex:

          before     after
  real    0m0.834s   0m0.204s
  user    0m0.788s   0m0.164s
  sys     0m0.040s   0m0.036s

This matches our algorithmic expectations. log(3M) is ~21.5,
so a traditional sort is ~21.5n. Our radix sort runs in k*n,
where k is the number of radix digits. In the worst case,
this is k=4 for a 64-bit off_t, but we can quit early when
the largest value to be sorted is smaller. For any
repository under 4G, k=2. Our algorithm makes two passes
over the list per radix digit, so we end up with 4n. That
should yield ~5.3x speedup. We see 4x here; the difference
is probably due to the extra bucket book-keeping the radix
sort has to do.

On a smaller repo, the difference is less impressive, as
log(n) is smaller. For git.git, with 173K objects (but still
k=2), we see a 2.7x improvement:

          before     after
  real    0m0.046s   0m0.017s
  user    0m0.036s   0m0.012s
  sys     0m0.008s   0m0.000s

On even tinier repos (e.g., a few hundred objects), the
speedup goes away entirely, as the small advantage of the
radix sort gets erased by the book-keeping costs (and at
those sizes, the cost to generate the the rev-index gets
lost in the noise anyway).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12 09:20:54 -07:00
Jeff King
012b32bb46 pack-revindex: use unsigned to store number of objects
A packfile may have up to 2^32-1 objects in it, so the
"right" data type to use is uint32_t. We currently use a
signed int, which means that we may behave incorrectly for
packfiles with more than 2^31-1 objects on 32-bit systems.

Nobody has noticed because having 2^31 objects is pretty
insane. The linux.git repo has on the order of 2^22 objects,
which is hundreds of times smaller than necessary to trigger
the bug.

Let's bump this up to an "unsigned". On 32-bit systems, this
gives us the correct data-type, and on 64-bit systems, it is
probably more efficient to use the native "unsigned" than a
true uint32_t.

While we're at it, we can fix the binary search not to
overflow in such a case if our unsigned is 32 bits.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12 09:18:42 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
24deea5273 janitor: useless checks before free
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-22 21:57:41 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
08698b1e32 make find_pack_revindex() aware of the nasty world
It currently calls die() whenever given offset is not found thinking
that such thing should never happen.  But this offset may come from a
corrupted pack whych _could_ happen and not be found.  Callers should
deal with this possibility gracefully instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-02 15:22:35 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
4b480c6716 discard revindex data when pack list changes
This is needed to fix verify-pack -v with multiple pack arguments.

Also, in theory, revindex data (if any) must be discarded whenever
reprepare_packed_git() is called. In practice this is hard to trigger
though.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-22 22:00:22 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
1f5c74f6cf call init_pack_revindex() lazily
This makes life much easier for next patch, as well as being more efficient
when the revindex is actually not used.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23 21:25:20 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
3449f8c4cb factorize revindex code out of builtin-pack-objects.c
No functional change. This is needed to fix verify-pack in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-01 01:44:45 -08:00