core.fsync: introduce granular fsync control infrastructure

This commit introduces the infrastructure for the core.fsync
configuration knob. The repository components we want to sync
are identified by flags so that we can turn on or off syncing
for specific components.

If core.fsyncObjectFiles is set and the core.fsync configuration
also includes FSYNC_COMPONENT_LOOSE_OBJECT, we will fsync any
loose objects. This picks the strictest data integrity behavior
if core.fsync and core.fsyncObjectFiles are set to conflicting values.

This change introduces the currently unused fsync_component
helper, which will be used by a later patch that adds fsyncing to
the refs backend.

Actual configuration and documentation of the fsync components
list are in other patches in the series to separate review of
the underlying mechanism from the policy of how it's configured.

Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 82f0194a3d..7ac1959258 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -993,6 +993,27 @@ void reset_shared_repository(void);
 extern int read_replace_refs;
 extern char *git_replace_ref_base;
 
+/*
+ * These values are used to help identify parts of a repository to fsync.
+ * FSYNC_COMPONENT_NONE identifies data that will not be a persistent part of the
+ * repository and so shouldn't be fsynced.
+ */
+enum fsync_component {
+	FSYNC_COMPONENT_NONE,
+	FSYNC_COMPONENT_LOOSE_OBJECT		= 1 << 0,
+	FSYNC_COMPONENT_PACK			= 1 << 1,
+	FSYNC_COMPONENT_PACK_METADATA		= 1 << 2,
+	FSYNC_COMPONENT_COMMIT_GRAPH		= 1 << 3,
+};
+
+#define FSYNC_COMPONENTS_DEFAULT (FSYNC_COMPONENT_PACK | \
+				  FSYNC_COMPONENT_PACK_METADATA | \
+				  FSYNC_COMPONENT_COMMIT_GRAPH)
+
+/*
+ * A bitmask indicating which components of the repo should be fsynced.
+ */
+extern enum fsync_component fsync_components;
 extern int fsync_object_files;
 extern int use_fsync;
 
@@ -1707,6 +1728,8 @@ int copy_file_with_time(const char *dst, const char *src, int mode);
 
 void write_or_die(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
 void fsync_or_die(int fd, const char *);
+int fsync_component(enum fsync_component component, int fd);
+void fsync_component_or_die(enum fsync_component component, int fd, const char *msg);
 
 ssize_t read_in_full(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);
 ssize_t write_in_full(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);