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2024-12-06global: mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`Patrick Steinhardt4-0/+6
Mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`. This allows for a structured approach to get rid of all such warnings over time in a way that can be easily measured. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-06Merge branch 'sj/refs-symref-referent-fix'Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
A double-free that may not trigger in practice by luck has been corrected in the reference resolution code. * sj/refs-symref-referent-fix: ref-cache: fix invalid free operation in `free_ref_entry`
2024-12-04Merge branch 'sj/ref-contents-check'Junio C Hamano5-22/+193
"git fsck" learned to issue warnings on "curiously formatted" ref contents that have always been taken valid but something Git wouldn't have written itself (e.g., missing terminating end-of-line after the full object name). * sj/ref-contents-check: ref: add symlink ref content check for files backend ref: check whether the target of the symref is a ref ref: add basic symref content check for files backend ref: add more strict checks for regular refs ref: port git-fsck(1) regular refs check for files backend ref: support multiple worktrees check for refs ref: initialize ref name outside of check functions ref: check the full refname instead of basename ref: initialize "fsck_ref_report" with zero
2024-11-27ref-cache: fix invalid free operation in `free_ref_entry`shejialuo1-1/+2
In cfd971520e (refs: keep track of unresolved reference value in iterators, 2024-08-09), we added a new field "referent" into the "struct ref" structure. In order to free the "referent", we unconditionally freed the "referent" by simply adding a "free" statement. However, this is a bad usage. Because when ref entry is either directory or loose ref, we will always execute the following statement: free(entry->u.value.referent); This does not make sense. We should never access the "entry->u.value" field when "entry" is a directory. However, the change obviously doesn't break the tests. Let's analysis why. The anonymous union in the "ref_entry" has two members: one is "struct ref_value", another is "struct ref_dir". On a 64-bit machine, the size of "struct ref_dir" is 32 bytes, which is smaller than the 48-byte size of "struct ref_value". And the offset of "referent" field in "struct ref_value" is 40 bytes. So, whenever we create a new "ref_entry" for a directory, we will leave the offset from 40 bytes to 48 bytes untouched, which means the value for this memory is zero (NULL). It's OK to free a NULL pointer, but this is merely a coincidence of memory layout. To fix this issue, we now ensure that "free(entry->u.value.referent)" is only called when "entry->flag" indicates that it represents a loose reference and not a directory to avoid the invalid memory operation. Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-26refs/reftable: reuse iterators when reading refsPatrick Steinhardt1-3/+29
When reading references the reftable backend has to: 1. Create a new ref iterator. 2. Seek the iterator to the record we're searching for. 3. Read the record. We cannot really avoid the last two steps, but re-creating the iterator every single time we want to read a reference is kind of expensive and a waste of resources. We couldn't help it in the past though because it was not possible to reuse iterators. But starting with 5bf96e0c39 (reftable/generic: move seeking of records into the iterator, 2024-05-13) we have split up the iterator lifecycle such that creating the iterator and seeking are two different concerns. Refactor the code such that we cache iterators in the reftable backend. This cache is invalidated whenever the respective stack is reloaded such that we know to recreate the iterator in that case. This leads to a sizeable speedup when creating many refs, which requires a lot of random reference reads: Benchmark 1: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100000, revision = master) Time (mean ± σ): 1.793 s ± 0.010 s [User: 0.954 s, System: 0.835 s] Range (min … max): 1.781 s … 1.811 s 10 runs Benchmark 2: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 1.680 s ± 0.013 s [User: 0.846 s, System: 0.831 s] Range (min … max): 1.664 s … 1.702 s 10 runs Summary update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) ran 1.07 ± 0.01 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100000, revision = master) While 7% is not a huge win, you have to consider that the benchmark is _writing_ data, so _reading_ references is only one part of what we do. Flame graphs show that we spend around 40% of our time reading refs, so the speedup when reading refs is approximately ~2.5x that. I could not find better benchmarks where we perform a lot of random ref reads. You can also see a sizeable impact on memory usage when creating 100k references. Before this change: HEAP SUMMARY: in use at exit: 19,112,538 bytes in 200,170 blocks total heap usage: 8,400,426 allocs, 8,200,256 frees, 454,367,048 bytes allocated After this change: HEAP SUMMARY: in use at exit: 674,416 bytes in 169 blocks total heap usage: 7,929,872 allocs, 7,929,703 frees, 281,509,985 bytes allocated As an additional factor, this refactoring opens up the possibility for more performance optimizations in how we re-seek iterators. Any change that allows us to optimize re-seeking by e.g. reusing data structures would thus also directly speed up random reads. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-26refs/reftable: refactor reflog expiry to use reftable backendPatrick Steinhardt1-8/+5
Refactor the callback function that expires reflog entries in the reftable backend to use `reftable_backend_read_ref()` instead of accessing the reftable stack directly. This ensures that the function will benefit from the new caching layer that we're about to introduce. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-26refs/reftable: refactor reading symbolic refs to use reftable backendPatrick Steinhardt1-7/+4
Refactor the callback function that reads symbolic references in the reftable backend to use `reftable_backend_read_ref()` instead of accessing the reftable stack directly. This ensures that the function will benefit from the new caching layer that we're about to introduce. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-26refs/reftable: read references via `struct reftable_backend`Patrick Steinhardt1-63/+59
Refactor `read_ref_without_reload()` to accept `struct reftable_backend` as parameter instead of `struct reftable_stack`. Rename the function to `reftable_backend_read_ref()` to clarify its scope and move it close to other functions operating on `struct reftable_backend`. This change allows us to implement an additional caching layer when reading refs where we can reuse reftable iterators. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-26refs/reftable: figure out hash via `reftable_stack`Patrick Steinhardt1-7/+19
The function `read_ref_without_reload()` accepts a ref store as input only so that we can figure out the hash function used by it. This is duplicate information though because the reftable stack knows about its hash function, too. Drop the superfluous parameter to simplify the calling convention a bit. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-26refs/reftable: handle reloading stacks in the reftable backendPatrick Steinhardt1-58/+126
When accessing a stack we almost always have to reload the stack before reading data from it. This is mostly because Git does not have a notification mechanism for when underlying data has been changed, and thus we are forced to opportunistically reload the stack every single time to account for any changes that may have happened concurrently. Handle the reload internally in `backend_for()`. For one this forces callsites to think about whether or not they need to reload the stack. But second this makes the logic to access stacks more self-contained by letting the `struct reftable_backend` manage themselves. Update callsites where we don't reload the stack to document why we don't. In some cases it's unclear whether it is the right thing to do in the first place, but fixing that is outside of the scope of this patch series. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-26refs/reftable: encapsulate reftable stackPatrick Steinhardt1-59/+76
The reftable ref store needs to keep track of multiple stacks, one for the main worktree and an arbitrary number of stacks for worktrees. This is done by storing pointers to `struct reftable_stack`, which we then access directly. Wrap the stack in a new `struct reftable_backend`. This will allow us to attach more data to each respective stack in subsequent commits. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-25refs: add TRANSACTION_CREATE_EXISTS errorBence Ferdinandy2-10/+20
Currently there is only one special error for transaction, for when there is a naming conflict, all other errors are dumped under a generic error. Add a new special error case for when the caller requests the reference to be updated only when it does not yet exist and the reference actually does exist. Signed-off-by: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-25refs: standardize output of refs_read_symbolic_refBence Ferdinandy3-6/+12
When the symbolic reference we want to read with refs_read_symbolic_ref is actually not a symbolic reference, the files and the reftable backends return different values (1 and -1 respectively). Standardize the returned values so that 0 is success, -1 is a generic error and -2 is that the reference was actually non-symbolic. Signed-off-by: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: add symlink ref content check for files backendshejialuo1-4/+34
Besides the textual symref, we also allow symbolic links as the symref. So, we should also provide the consistency check as what we have done for textual symref. And also we consider deprecating writing the symbolic links. We first need to access whether symbolic links still be used. So, add a new fsck message "symlinkRef(INFO)" to tell the user be aware of this information. We have already introduced "files_fsck_symref_target". We should reuse this function to handle the symrefs which use legacy symbolic links. We should not check the trailing garbage for symbolic refs. Add a new parameter "symbolic_link" to disable some checks which should only be executed for textual symrefs. And we need to also generate the "referent" parameter for reusing "files_fsck_symref_target" by the following steps: 1. Use "strbuf_add_real_path" to resolve the symlink and get the absolute path "ref_content" which the symlink ref points to. 2. Generate the absolute path "abs_gitdir" of "gitdir" and combine "ref_content" and "abs_gitdir" to extract the relative path "relative_referent_path". 3. If "ref_content" is outside of "gitdir", we just set "referent" with "ref_content". Instead, we set "referent" with "relative_referent_path". Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: check whether the target of the symref is a refshejialuo1-2/+12
Ideally, we want to the users use "git symbolic-ref" to create symrefs instead of writing raw contents into the filesystem. However, "git symbolic-ref" is strict with the refname but not strict with the referent. For example, we can make the "referent" located at the "$(gitdir)/logs/aaa" and manually write the content into this where we can still successfully parse this symref by using "git rev-parse". $ git init repo && cd repo && git commit --allow-empty -mx $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/test logs/aaa $ echo $(git rev-parse HEAD) > .git/logs/aaa $ git rev-parse test We may need to add some restrictions for "referent" parameter when using "git symbolic-ref" to create symrefs because ideally all the nonpseudo-refs should be located under the "refs" directory and we may tighten this in the future. In order to tell the user we may tighten the above situation, create a new fsck message "symrefTargetIsNotARef" to notify the user that this may become an error in the future. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: add basic symref content check for files backendshejialuo1-0/+40
We have code that checks regular ref contents, but we do not yet check the contents of symbolic refs. By using "parse_loose_ref_content" for symbolic refs, we will get the information of the "referent". We do not need to check the "referent" by opening the file. This is because if "referent" exists in the file system, we will eventually check its correctness by inspecting every file in the "refs" directory. If the "referent" does not exist in the filesystem, this is OK as it is seen as the dangling symref. So we just need to check the "referent" string content. A regular ref could be accepted as a textual symref if it begins with "ref:", followed by zero or more whitespaces, followed by the full refname, followed only by whitespace characters. However, we always write a single SP after "ref:" and a single LF after the refname. It may seem that we should report a fsck error message when the "referent" does not apply above rules and we should not be so aggressive because third-party reimplementations of Git may have taken advantage of the looser syntax. Put it more specific, we accept the following contents: 1. "ref: refs/heads/master " 2. "ref: refs/heads/master \n \n" 3. "ref: refs/heads/master\n\n" When introducing the regular ref content checks, we created two fsck infos "refMissingNewline" and "trailingRefContent" which exactly represents above situations. So we will reuse these two fsck messages to write checks to info the user about these situations. But we do not allow any other trailing garbage. The followings are bad symref contents which will be reported as fsck error by "git-fsck(1)". 1. "ref: refs/heads/master garbage\n" 2. "ref: refs/heads/master \n\n\n garbage " And we introduce a new "badReferentName(ERROR)" fsck message to report above errors by using "is_root_ref" and "check_refname_format" to check the "referent". Since both "is_root_ref" and "check_refname_format" don't work with whitespaces, we use the trimmed version of "referent" with these functions. In order to add checks, we will do the following things: 1. Record the untrimmed length "orig_len" and untrimmed last byte "orig_last_byte". 2. Use "strbuf_rtrim" to trim the whitespaces or newlines to make sure "is_root_ref" and "check_refname_format" won't be failed by them. 3. Use "orig_len" and "orig_last_byte" to check whether the "referent" misses '\n' at the end or it has trailing whitespaces or newlines. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: add more strict checks for regular refsshejialuo2-4/+24
We have already used "parse_loose_ref_contents" function to check whether the ref content is valid in files backend. However, by using "parse_loose_ref_contents", we allow the ref's content to end with garbage or without a newline. Even though we never create such loose refs ourselves, we have accepted such loose refs. So, it is entirely possible that some third-party tools may rely on such loose refs being valid. We should not report an error fsck message at current. We should notify the users about such "curiously formatted" loose refs so that adequate care is taken before we decide to tighten the rules in the future. And it's not suitable either to report a warn fsck message to the user. We don't yet want the "--strict" flag that controls this bit to end up generating errors for such weirdly-formatted reference contents, as we first want to assess whether this retroactive tightening will cause issues for any tools out there. It may cause compatibility issues which may break the repository. So, we add the following two fsck infos to represent the situation where the ref content ends without newline or has trailing garbages: 1. refMissingNewline(INFO): A loose ref that does not end with newline(LF). 2. trailingRefContent(INFO): A loose ref has trailing content. It might appear that we can't provide the user with any warnings by using FSCK_INFO. However, in "fsck.c::fsck_vreport", we will convert FSCK_INFO to FSCK_WARN and we can still warn the user about these situations when using "git refs verify" without introducing compatibility issues. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: port git-fsck(1) regular refs check for files backendshejialuo1-0/+47
"git-fsck(1)" implicitly checks the ref content by passing the callback "fsck_handle_ref" to the "refs.c::refs_for_each_rawref". Then, it will check whether the ref content (eventually "oid") is valid. If not, it will report the following error to the user. error: refs/heads/main: invalid sha1 pointer 0000... And it will also report above errors when there are dangling symrefs in the repository wrongly. This does not align with the behavior of the "git symbolic-ref" command which allows users to create dangling symrefs. As we have already introduced the "git refs verify" command, we'd better check the ref content explicitly in the "git refs verify" command thus later we could remove these checks in "git-fsck(1)" and launch a subprocess to call "git refs verify" in "git-fsck(1)" to make the "git-fsck(1)" more clean. Following what "git-fsck(1)" does, add a similar check to "git refs verify". Then add a new fsck error message "badRefContent(ERROR)" to represent that a ref has an invalid content. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: support multiple worktrees check for refsshejialuo5-10/+26
We have already set up the infrastructure to check the consistency for refs, but we do not support multiple worktrees. However, "git-fsck(1)" will check the refs of worktrees. As we decide to get feature parity with "git-fsck(1)", we need to set up support for multiple worktrees. Because each worktree has its own specific refs, instead of just showing the users "refs/worktree/foo", we need to display the full name such as "worktrees/<id>/refs/worktree/foo". So we should know the id of the worktree to get the full name. Add a new parameter "struct worktree *" for "refs-internal.h::fsck_fn". Then change the related functions to follow this new interface. The "packed-refs" only exists in the main worktree, so we should only check "packed-refs" in the main worktree. Use "is_main_worktree" method to skip checking "packed-refs" in "packed_fsck" function. Then, enhance the "files-backend.c::files_fsck_refs_dir" function to add "worktree/<id>/" prefix when we are not in the main worktree. Last, add a new test to check the refname when there are multiple worktrees to exercise the code. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: initialize ref name outside of check functionsshejialuo1-8/+13
We passes "refs_check_dir" to the "files_fsck_refs_name" function which allows it to create the checked ref name later. However, when we introduce a new check function, we have to allocate redundant memory and re-calculate the ref name. It's bad for us to allocate redundant memory and duplicate logic. Instead, we should allocate and calculate it only once and pass the ref name to the check functions. In order not to do repeat calculation, rename "refs_check_dir" to "refname". And in "files_fsck_refs_dir", create a new strbuf "refname", thus whenever we handle a new ref, calculate the name and call the check functions one by one. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: check the full refname instead of basenameshejialuo1-2/+5
In "files-backend.c::files_fsck_refs_name", we validate the refname format by using "check_refname_format" to check the basename of the iterator with "REFNAME_ALLOW_ONELEVEL" flag. However, this is a bad implementation. Although we doesn't allow a single "@" in ".git" directory, we do allow "refs/heads/@". So, we will report an error wrongly when there is a "refs/heads/@" ref by using one level refname "@". Because we just check one level refname, we either cannot check the other parts of the full refname. And we will ignore the following errors: "refs/heads/ new-feature/test" "refs/heads/~new-feature/test" In order to fix the above problem, enhance "files_fsck_refs_name" to use the full name for "check_refname_format". Then, replace the tests which are related to "@" and add tests to exercise the above situations using for loop to avoid repetition. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: initialize "fsck_ref_report" with zeroshejialuo1-1/+1
In "fsck.c::fsck_refs_error_function", we need to tell whether "oid" and "referent" is NULL. So, we need to always initialize these parameters to NULL instead of letting them point to anywhere when creating a new "fsck_ref_report" structure. The original code explicitly initializes the "path" member in the "struct fsck_ref_report" to NULL (which implicitly 0-initializes other members in the struct). It is more customary to use "{ 0 }" to express that we are 0-initializing everything. In order to align with the codebase, initialize "fsck_ref_report" with zero. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs: skip collision checks in initial transactionsPatrick Steinhardt2-9/+10
Reference transactions use `refs_verify_refname_available()` to check for colliding references. This check consists of two parts: - Checks for whether multiple ref updates in the same transaction conflict with each other. - Checks for whether existing refs conflict with any refs part of the transaction. While we generally cannot avoid the first check, the second check is superfluous in cases where the transaction is an initial one in an otherwise empty ref store. The check results in multiple ref reads as well as the creation of a ref iterator for every ref we're checking, which adds up quite fast when performing the check for many refs. Introduce a new flag that allows us to skip this check and wire it up in such that the backends pass it when running an initial transaction. This leads to significant speedups when migrating ref storage backends. From "files" to "reftable": Benchmark 1: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 472.4 ms ± 6.7 ms [User: 175.9 ms, System: 285.2 ms] Range (min … max): 463.5 ms … 483.2 ms 10 runs Benchmark 2: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 86.1 ms ± 1.9 ms [User: 67.9 ms, System: 16.0 ms] Range (min … max): 82.9 ms … 90.9 ms 29 runs Summary migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) ran 5.48 ± 0.15 times faster than migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) And from "reftable" to "files": Benchmark 1: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 452.7 ms ± 3.4 ms [User: 209.9 ms, System: 235.4 ms] Range (min … max): 445.9 ms … 457.5 ms 10 runs Benchmark 2: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 95.2 ms ± 2.2 ms [User: 73.6 ms, System: 20.6 ms] Range (min … max): 91.7 ms … 100.8 ms 28 runs Summary migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) ran 4.76 ± 0.11 times faster than migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs/files: support symbolic and root refs in initial transactionPatrick Steinhardt1-10/+34
The "files" backend has implemented special logic when committing the first transactions in an otherwise empty ref store: instead of writing all refs as separate loose files, it instead knows to write them all into a "packed-refs" file directly. This is significantly more efficient than having to write each of the refs as separate "loose" ref. The only user of this optimization is git-clone(1), which only uses this mechanism to write regular refs. Consequently, the implementation does not know how to handle both symbolic and root refs. While fine in the context of git-clone(1), this keeps us from using the mechanism in more cases. Adapt the logic to also support symbolic and root refs by using a second transaction that we use for all of the refs that need to be written as loose refs. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs: introduce "initial" transaction flagPatrick Steinhardt5-38/+8
There are two different ways to commit a transaction: - `ref_transaction_commit()` can be used to commit a regular transaction and is what almost every caller wants. - `initial_ref_transaction_commit()` can be used when it is known that the ref store that the transaction is committed for is empty and when there are no concurrent processes. This is used when cloning a new repository. Implementing this via two separate functions has a couple of downsides. First, every reference backend needs to implement a separate callback even in the case where they don't special-case the initial transaction. Second, backends are basically forced to reimplement the whole logic for how to commit the transaction like the "files" backend does, even though backends may wish to only tweak certain behaviour of a "normal" commit. Third, it is awkward that callers must never prepare the transaction as this is somewhat different than how a transaction typically works. Refactor the code such that we instead mark initial transactions via a separate flag when starting the transaction. This addresses all of the mentioned painpoints, where the most important part is that it will allow backends to have way more leeway in how exactly they want to handle the initial transaction. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs/files: move logic to commit initial transactionPatrick Steinhardt1-101/+101
Move the logic to commit initial transactions such that we can start to call it in `files_transaction_finish()` in a subsequent commit without requiring a separate function declaration. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs: allow passing flags when setting up a transactionPatrick Steinhardt2-4/+8
Allow passing flags when setting up a transaction such that the behaviour of the transaction itself can be altered. This functionality will be used in a subsequent patch. Adapt callers accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19Merge branch 'ps/reftable-detach' into ps/reftable-iterator-reuseJunio C Hamano1-1/+18
* ps/reftable-detach: reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for lockfile subsystem reftable/stack: drop only use of `get_locked_file_path()` reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for tempfile subsystem reftable/stack: stop using `fsync_component()` directly reftable/system: stop depending on "hash.h" reftable: explicitly handle hash format IDs reftable/system: move "dir.h" to its only user
2024-11-19reftable/stack: stop using `fsync_component()` directlyPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+7
We're executing `fsync_component()` directly in the reftable library so that we can fsync data to disk depending on "core.fsync". But as we're in the process of converting the reftable library to become standalone we cannot use that function in the library anymore. Refactor the code such that users of the library can inject a custom fsync function via the write options. This allows us to get rid of the dependency on "write-or-die.h". Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19reftable/system: stop depending on "hash.h"Patrick Steinhardt1-1/+11
We include "hash.h" in "reftable/system.h" such that we can use hash format IDs as well as the raw size of SHA1 and SHA256. As we are in the process of converting the reftable library to become standalone we of course cannot rely on those constants anymore. Introduce a new `enum reftable_hash` to replace internal uses of the hash format IDs and new constants that replace internal uses of the hash size. Adapt the reftable backend to set up the correct hash function. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-10-21global: Fix duplicate word typosSven Strickroth1-1/+1
Used regex to find these typos: (?<!struct )(?<=\s)([a-z]{1,}) \1(?=\s) Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2024-10-10Merge branch 'ps/reftable-alloc-failures'Junio C Hamano1-8/+31
The reftable library is now prepared to expect that the memory allocation function given to it may fail to allocate and to deal with such an error. * ps/reftable-alloc-failures: (26 commits) reftable/basics: fix segfault when growing `names` array fails reftable/basics: ban standard allocator functions reftable: introduce `REFTABLE_FREE_AND_NULL()` reftable: fix calls to free(3P) reftable: handle trivial allocation failures reftable/tree: handle allocation failures reftable/pq: handle allocation failures when adding entries reftable/block: handle allocation failures reftable/blocksource: handle allocation failures reftable/iter: handle allocation failures when creating indexed table iter reftable/stack: handle allocation failures in auto compaction reftable/stack: handle allocation failures in `stack_compact_range()` reftable/stack: handle allocation failures in `reftable_new_stack()` reftable/stack: handle allocation failures on reload reftable/reader: handle allocation failures in `reader_init_iter()` reftable/reader: handle allocation failures for unindexed reader reftable/merged: handle allocation failures in `merged_table_init_iter()` reftable/writer: handle allocation failures in `reftable_new_writer()` reftable/writer: handle allocation failures in `writer_index_hash()` reftable/record: handle allocation failures when decoding records ...
2024-10-02reftable/merged: handle allocation failures in `merged_table_init_iter()`Patrick Steinhardt1-8/+31
Handle allocation failures in `merged_table_init_iter()`. While at it, merge `merged_iter_init()` into the function. It only has a single caller and merging them makes it easier to handle allocation failures consistently. This change also requires us to adapt `reftable_stack_init_*_iterator()` to bubble up the new error codes of `merged_table_iter_init()`. Adapt callsites accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-30Merge branch 'ps/reftable-concurrent-writes'Junio C Hamano1-2/+11
Give timeout to the locking code to write to reftable. * ps/reftable-concurrent-writes: refs/reftable: reload locked stack when preparing transaction reftable/stack: allow locking of outdated stacks refs/reftable: introduce "reftable.lockTimeout"
2024-09-25Merge branch 'ps/reftable-exclude'Junio C Hamano1-3/+130
The reftable backend learned to more efficiently handle exclude patterns while enumerating the refs. * ps/reftable-exclude: refs/reftable: wire up support for exclude patterns reftable/reader: make table iterator reseekable t/unit-tests: introduce reftable library Makefile: stop listing test library objects twice builtin/receive-pack: fix exclude patterns when announcing refs refs: properly apply exclude patterns to namespaced refs
2024-09-24refs/reftable: reload locked stack when preparing transactionPatrick Steinhardt1-1/+2
When starting a reftable transaction we lock all stacks we are about to modify. While it may happen that the stack is out-of-date at this point in time we don't really care: transactional updates encode the expected state of a certain reference, so all that we really want to verify is that the _current_ value matches that expected state. Pass `REFTABLE_STACK_NEW_ADDITION_RELOAD` when locking the stack such that an out-of-date stack will be reloaded after having been locked. This change is safe because all verifications of the expected state happen after this step anyway. Add a testcase that verifies that many writers are now able to write to the stack concurrently without failures and with a deterministic end result. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-24reftable/stack: allow locking of outdated stacksPatrick Steinhardt1-2/+2
In `reftable_stack_new_addition()` we first lock the stack and then check whether it is still up-to-date. If it is not we return an error to the caller indicating that the stack is outdated. This is overly restrictive in our ref transaction interface though: we lock the stack right before we start to verify the transaction, so we do not really care whether it is outdated or not. What we really want is that the stack is up-to-date after it has been locked so that we can verify queued updates against its current state while we know that it is locked for concurrent modification. Introduce a new flag `REFTABLE_STACK_NEW_ADDITION_RELOAD` that alters the behaviour of `reftable_stack_init_addition()` in this case: when we notice that it is out-of-date we reload it instead of returning an error to the caller. This logic will be wired up in the reftable backend in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-24refs/reftable: introduce "reftable.lockTimeout"Patrick Steinhardt1-0/+8
When multiple concurrent processes try to update references in a repository they may try to lock the same lockfiles. This can happen even when the updates are non-conflicting and can both be applied, so it doesn't always make sense to abort the transaction immediately. Both the "loose" and "packed" backends thus have a grace period that they wait for the lock to be released that can be controlled via the config values "core.filesRefLockTimeout" and "core.packedRefsTimeout", respectively. The reftable backend doesn't have such a setting yet and instead fails immediately when it sees such a lock. But the exact same concepts apply here as they do apply to the other backends. Introduce a new "reftable.lockTimeout" config that controls how long we may wait for a "tables.list" lock to be released. The default value of this config is 100ms, which is the same default as we have it for the "loose" backend. Note that even though we also lock individual tables, this config really only applies to the "tables.list" file. This is because individual tables are only ever locked when we already hold the "tables.list" lock during compaction. When we observe such a lock we in fact do not want to compact the table at all because it is already in the process of being compacted by a concurrent process. So applying the same timeout here would not make any sense and only delay progress. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-23Merge branch 'ps/environ-wo-the-repository'Junio C Hamano2-21/+33
Code clean-up. * ps/environ-wo-the-repository: (21 commits) environment: stop storing "core.notesRef" globally environment: stop storing "core.warnAmbiguousRefs" globally environment: stop storing "core.preferSymlinkRefs" globally environment: stop storing "core.logAllRefUpdates" globally refs: stop modifying global `log_all_ref_updates` variable branch: stop modifying `log_all_ref_updates` variable repo-settings: track defaults close to `struct repo_settings` repo-settings: split out declarations into a standalone header environment: guard state depending on a repository environment: reorder header to split out `the_repository`-free section environment: move `set_git_dir()` and related into setup layer environment: make `get_git_namespace()` self-contained environment: move object database functions into object layer config: make dependency on repo in `read_early_config()` explicit config: document `read_early_config()` and `read_very_early_config()` environment: make `get_git_work_tree()` accept a repository environment: make `get_graft_file()` accept a repository environment: make `get_index_file()` accept a repository environment: make `get_object_directory()` accept a repository environment: make `get_git_common_dir()` accept a repository ...
2024-09-16Merge branch 'ps/reftable-exclude' into ps/reftable-alloc-failuresJunio C Hamano1-3/+130
* ps/reftable-exclude: refs/reftable: wire up support for exclude patterns reftable/reader: make table iterator reseekable t/unit-tests: introduce reftable library Makefile: stop listing test library objects twice builtin/receive-pack: fix exclude patterns when announcing refs refs: properly apply exclude patterns to namespaced refs
2024-09-16refs/reftable: wire up support for exclude patternsPatrick Steinhardt1-3/+130
Exclude patterns can be used by reference backends to skip over blocks of references that are uninteresting to the caller. Reference backends do not have to wire up support for them, and all callers are expected to behave as if the backend didn't support them. In fact, the only backend that supports exclude patterns right now is the "packed" backend. Exclude patterns can be quite an important performance optimization in repositories that have loads of references. The patterns are set up in case "transfer.hideRefs" and friends are configured during a fetch, so handling these patterns becomes important once there are lots of hidden refs in a served repository. Now that we have properly re-seekable reftable iterators we can also wire up support for these patterns in the "reftable" backend. Doing so is conceptually simple: once we hit a reference whose prefix matches the current exclude pattern we re-seek the iterator to the first reference that doesn't match the pattern anymore. This schema only works for trivial patterns that do not have any globbing characters in them, but this restriction also applies do the "packed" backend. This makes t1419 work with the "reftable" backend with some slight modifications. Of course it also speeds up listing of references with hidden refs. The following benchmark prints one reference with 1 million hidden references: Benchmark 1: HEAD~ Time (mean ± σ): 93.3 ms ± 2.1 ms [User: 90.3 ms, System: 2.5 ms] Range (min … max): 89.8 ms … 97.2 ms 33 runs Benchmark 2: HEAD Time (mean ± σ): 4.2 ms ± 0.6 ms [User: 2.2 ms, System: 1.8 ms] Range (min … max): 3.1 ms … 8.1 ms 765 runs Summary HEAD ran 22.15 ± 3.19 times faster than HEAD~ Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-12Merge branch 'ps/pack-refs-auto-heuristics'Junio C Hamano3-0/+90
"git pack-refs --auto" for the files backend was too aggressive, which has been a bit tamed. * ps/pack-refs-auto-heuristics: refs/files: use heuristic to decide whether to repack with `--auto` t0601: merge tests for auto-packing of refs wrapper: introduce `log2u()`
2024-09-12environment: stop storing "core.preferSymlinkRefs" globallyPatrick Steinhardt1-1/+4
Same as the preceding commit, storing the "core.preferSymlinkRefs" value globally is misdesigned as this setting may be set per repository. There is only a single user of this value anyway, namely the "files" backend. So let's just remove the global variable and read the value of this setting when initializing the backend. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-12environment: stop storing "core.logAllRefUpdates" globallyPatrick Steinhardt2-6/+10
The value of "core.logAllRefUpdates" is being stored in the global variable `log_all_ref_updates`. This design is somewhat aged nowadays, where it is entirely possible to access multiple repositories in the same process which all have different values for this setting. So using a single global variable to track it is plain wrong. Remove the global variable. Instead, we now provide a new function part of the repo-settings subsystem that parses the value for a specific repository. While that may require us to read the value multiple times, we work around this by reading it once when the ref backends are set up and caching the value there. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-12refs: stop modifying global `log_all_ref_updates` variablePatrick Steinhardt2-16/+19
In refs-related code we modify the global `log_all_ref_updates` variable, which is done because `should_autocreate_reflog()` does not accept passing an `enum log_refs_config` but instead accesses the global variable. Adapt its interface such that the value is provided by the caller, which allows us to compute the proper value locally without having to modify global state. This change requires us to move the enum to "repo-settings.h", or otherwise we get compilation errors due to include cycles. We're about to fully move this setting into the repo-settings subsystem anyway, so this is fine. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-12environment: guard state depending on a repositoryPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+2
In "environment.h" we have quite a lot of functions and variables that either explicitly or implicitly depend on `the_repository`. The implicit set of stateful declarations includes for example variables which get populated when parsing a repository's Git configuration. This set of variables is broken by design, as their state often depends on the last repository config that has been parsed. So they may or may not represent the state of `the_repository`. Fixing that is quite a big undertaking, and later patches in this series will demonstrate a solution for a first small set of those variables. So for now, let's guard these with `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` so that callers are aware of the implicit dependency. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-04refs/files: use heuristic to decide whether to repack with `--auto`Patrick Steinhardt3-0/+90
The `--auto` flag for git-pack-refs(1) allows the ref backend to decide whether or not a repack is in order. This switch has been introduced mostly with the "reftable" backend in mind, which already knows to auto-compact its tables during normal operations. When the flag is set, then it will use the same auto-compaction mechanism and thus end up doing nothing in most cases. The "files" backend does not have any such heuristic yet and instead packs any loose references unconditionally. So we rewrite the complete "packed-refs" file even if there's only a single loose reference to be packed. Even worse, starting with 9f6714ab3e (builtin/gc: pack refs when using `git maintenance run --auto`, 2024-03-25), `git pack-refs --auto` is unconditionally executed via our auto maintenance, so we end up repacking references every single time auto maintenance kicks in. And while that commit already mentioned that the "files" backend unconditionally packs refs now, the author obviously didn't quite think about the consequences thereof. So while the idea was sound, we really should have added a heuristic to the "files" backend before implementing it. Introduce a heuristic that decides whether or not it is worth to pack loose references. The important factors to decide here are the number of loose references in comparison to the overall size of the "packed-refs" file. The bigger the "packed-refs" file, the longer it takes to rewrite it and thus we scale up the limit of allowed loose references before we repack. As is the nature of heuristics, this mechansim isn't obviously "correct", but should rather be seen as a tradeoff between how much resources we spend packing refs and how inefficient the ref store becomes. For all I can say, we have successfully been using the exact same heuristic in Gitaly for several years by now. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-30refs/files-backend: work around -Wunused-parameterJunio C Hamano1-2/+5
This is needed to build things with -Werror=unused-parameter on a platform without symbolic link support. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-26Merge branch 'jk/mark-unused-parameters'Junio C Hamano2-11/+11
Mark unused parameters as UNUSED to squelch -Wunused warnings. * jk/mark-unused-parameters: t-hashmap: stop calling setup() for t_intern() test scalar: mark unused parameters in dummy function daemon: mark unused parameters in non-posix fallbacks setup: mark unused parameter in config callback test-mergesort: mark unused parameters in trivial callback t-hashmap: mark unused parameters in callback function reftable: mark unused parameters in virtual functions reftable: drop obsolete test function declarations reftable: ignore unused argc/argv in test functions unit-tests: ignore unused argc/argv t/helper: mark more unused argv/argc arguments oss-fuzz: mark unused argv/argc argument refs: mark unused parameters in do_for_each_reflog_helper() refs: mark unused parameters in ref_store fsck callbacks update-ref: mark more unused parameters in parser callbacks imap-send: mark unused parameter in ssl_socket_connect() fallback
2024-08-26Merge branch 'jk/drop-unused-parameters'Junio C Hamano1-5/+3
Drop unused parameters from functions. * jk/drop-unused-parameters: diff-lib: drop unused index argument from get_stat_data() ref-filter: drop unused parameters from email_atom_option_parser() pack-bitmap: drop unused parameters from select_pseudo_merges() pack-bitmap: load writer config from repository parameter refs: drop some unused parameters from create_symref_lock()