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2016-10-03Merge branch 'jc/verify-loose-object-header'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+24
Codepaths that read from an on-disk loose object were too loose in validating what they are reading is a proper object file and sometimes read past the data they read from the disk, which has been corrected. H/t to Gustavo Grieco for reporting. * jc/verify-loose-object-header: unpack_sha1_header(): detect malformed object header streaming: make sure to notice corrupt object
2016-09-26unpack_sha1_header(): detect malformed object headerLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+24
When opening a loose object file, we often do this sequence: - prepare a short buffer for the object header (on stack) - call unpack_sha1_header() and have early part of the object data inflated, enough to fill the buffer - parse that data in the short buffer, assuming that the first part of the object is <typename> SP <length> NUL Because the parsing function parse_sha1_header_extended() is not given the number of bytes inflated into the header buffer, it you craft a file whose early part inflates a garbage sequence without SP or NUL, and replace a loose object with it, it will end up reading past the end of the inflated data. To correct this, do the following four things: - rename unpack_sha1_header() to unpack_sha1_short_header() and have unpack_sha1_header_to_strbuf() keep calling that as its helper function. This will detect and report zlib errors, but is not aware of the format of a loose object (as before). - introduce unpack_sha1_header() that calls the same helper function, and when zlib reports it inflated OK into the buffer, check if the inflated data has NUL. This would ensure that parsing function will terminate within the buffer that holds the inflated header. - update unpack_sha1_header_to_strbuf() to check if the resulting buffer has NUL for the same effect. - update parse_sha1_header_extended() to make sure that its loop to find the SP that terminates the <typename> stops at NUL. Essentially, this makes unpack_*() functions that are asked to unpack a loose object header to be a bit more strict and detect an input that cannot possibly be a valid object header, even before the parsing function kicks in. Reported-by: Gustavo Grieco <gustavo.grieco@imag.fr> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-21Merge branch 'rs/pack-sort-with-llist-mergesort'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-24/+15
Code cleanup. * rs/pack-sort-with-llist-mergesort: sha1_file: use llist_mergesort() for sorting packs
2016-09-21Merge branch 'jk/delta-base-cache'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Recently we updated the code to manage the in-core cache that holds objects that have recently been used to reconstitute other objects that are stored as deltas against them, but the update used an incorrect API function to manage the list of these objects. This has been fixed. * jk/delta-base-cache: add_delta_base_cache: use list_for_each_safe
2016-09-13sha1_file: use llist_mergesort() for sorting packsLibravatar René Scharfe1-24/+15
Sort the linked list of packs directly using llist_mergesort() instead of building an array, calling qsort(3) and fixing up the list pointers. This is shorter and less complicated. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-12Merge branch 'jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
The "git diff --submodule={short,log}" mechanism has been enhanced to allow "--submodule=diff" to show the patch between the submodule commits bound to the superproject. * jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline: diff: teach diff to display submodule difference with an inline diff submodule: refactor show_submodule_summary with helper function submodule: convert show_submodule_summary to use struct object_id * allow do_submodule_path to work even if submodule isn't checked out diff: prepare for additional submodule formats graph: add support for --line-prefix on all graph-aware output diff.c: remove output_prefix_length field cache: add empty_tree_oid object and helper function
2016-09-12add_delta_base_cache: use list_for_each_safeLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
We may remove elements from the list while we are iterating, which requires using a second temporary pointer. Otherwise stepping to the next element of the list might involve looking at freed memory (which generally works in practice, as we _just_ freed it, but of course is wrong to rely on; valgrind notices it). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-08Merge branch 'sb/submodule-clone-rr'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+76
"git clone --resurse-submodules --reference $path $URL" is a way to reduce network transfer cost by borrowing objects in an existing $path repository when cloning the superproject from $URL; it learned to also peek into $path for presense of corresponding repositories of submodules and borrow objects from there when able. * sb/submodule-clone-rr: clone: recursive and reference option triggers submodule alternates clone: implement optional references clone: clarify option_reference as required clone: factor out checking for an alternate path submodule--helper update-clone: allow multiple references submodule--helper module-clone: allow multiple references t7408: merge short tests, factor out testing method t7408: modernize style
2016-08-31cache: add empty_tree_oid object and helper functionLibravatar Jacob Keller1-0/+6
Similar to is_null_oid(), and is_empty_blob_sha1() add an empty_tree_oid along with helper function is_empty_tree_oid(). For completeness, also add an "is_empty_tree_sha1()", "is_empty_blob_sha1()", "is_empty_tree_oid()" and "is_empty_blob_oid()" helpers. To ensure we only get one singleton, implement EMPTY_BLOB_SHA1_BIN as simply getting the hash of empty_blob_oid structure. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-23delta_base_cache: use hashmap.hLibravatar Jeff King1-34/+60
The fundamental data structure of the delta base cache is a hash table mapping pairs of "(packfile, offset)" into structs containing the actual object data. The hash table implementation dates back to e5e0161 (Implement a simple delta_base cache, 2007-03-17), and uses a fixed-size table. The current size is a hard-coded 256 entries. Because we need to be able to remove objects from the hash table, entry lookup does not do any kind of probing to handle collisions. Colliding items simply replace whatever is in their slot. As a result, we have fewer usable slots than even the 256 we allocate. At half full, each new item has a 50% chance of displacing another one. Or another way to think about it: every item has a 1/256 chance of being ejected due to hash collision, without regard to our LRU strategy. So it would be interesting to see the effect of increasing the cache size on the runtime for some common operations. As with the previous patch, we'll measure "git log --raw" for tree-only operations, and "git log -Sfoo --raw" for operations that touch trees and blobs. All times are wall-clock best-of-3, done against fully packed repos with --depth=50, and the default core.deltaBaseCacheLimit of 96MB. Here are timings for various values of MAX_DELTA_CACHE against git.git (the asterisk marks the minimum time for each operation): MAX_DELTA_CACHE log-raw log-S --------------- --------- --------- 256 0m02.227s 0m12.821s 512 0m02.143s 0m10.602s 1024 0m02.127s 0m08.642s 2048 0m02.148s 0m07.123s 4096 0m02.194s 0m06.448s* 8192 0m02.239s 0m06.504s 16384 0m02.144s* 0m06.502s 32768 0m02.202s 0m06.622s 65536 0m02.230s 0m06.677s The log-raw case isn't changed much at all here (probably because our trees just aren't that big in the first place, or possibly because we have so _few_ trees in git.git that the 256-entry cache is enough). But once we start putting blobs in the cache, too, we see a big improvement (almost 50%). The curve levels off around 4096, which means that we can hold about that many entries before hitting the 96MB memory limit (or possibly that the workload is small enough that there is simply no more work to be optimized out by caching more). (As a side note, I initially timed my existing git.git pack, which was a base of --aggressive combined with some pulls on top. So it had quite a few deeper delta chains. The 256-cache case was more like 15s, and it still dropped to ~6.5s in the same way). Here are the timings for linux.git: MAX_DELTA_CACHE log-raw log-S --------------- --------- --------- 256 0m41.661s 5m12.410s 512 0m39.547s 5m07.920s 1024 0m37.054s 4m54.666s 2048 0m35.871s 4m41.194s* 4096 0m34.646s 4m51.648s 8192 0m33.881s 4m55.342s 16384 0m35.190s 5m00.122s 32768 0m35.060s 4m58.851s 65536 0m33.311s* 4m51.420s As we grow we see a nice 20% speedup in the tree traversal, and more modest 10% in the log-S. This is probably an indication that we are bound less by the number of entries, and more by the memory limit (more on that below). What is interesting is that the numbers bounce around a bit; increasing the number of entries isn't always a strict improvement. Partially this is due to noise in the measurement. But it may also be an indication that our LRU ejection scheme is not optimal. The smaller cache sizes introduce some randomness into the ejection (due to collisions), which may sometimes work in our favor (and sometimes not!). So what is the optimal setting of MAX_DELTA_CACHE? The "bouncing" in the linux.git log-S numbers notwithstanding, it mostly seems like bigger is better. And even if we were to try to find a "sweet spot", these are just two repositories, that are not necessarily representative. The shape of history, the size of trees and blobs, the memory limit configuration, etc, all will affect the outcome. Rather than trying to find the "right" number, another strategy is to just switch to a hash table that can actually store collisions: namely our hashmap.h implementation. Here are numbers for that compared to the "best" we saw from adjusting MAX_DELTA_CACHE: | log-raw | log-S | best hashmap | best hashmap | --------- --------- | --------- --------- git | 0m02.144s 0m02.144s | 0m06.448s 0m06.688s linux | 0m33.311s 0m33.092s | 4m41.194s 4m57.172s We can see the results are similar in most cases, which is what we'd expect. We're not ejecting due to collisions at all, so this is purely representing the LRU. So really, we'd expect this to model most closely the larger values of the static MAX_DELTA_CACHE limit. And that does seem to be what's happening, including the "bounce" in the linux log-S case. So while the value for that case _isn't_ as good as the optimal one measured above (which was 2048 entries), given the bouncing I'm hesitant to suggest that 2048 is any kind of optimum (not even for linux.git, let alone as a general rule). The generic hashmap has the appeal that it drops the number of tweakable numbers by one, which means we can focus on tuning other elements, like the LRU strategy or the core.deltaBaseCacheLimit setting. And indeed, if we bump the cache limit to 1G (which is probably silly for general use, but maybe something people with big workstations would want to do), the linux.git log-S time drops to 3m32s. That's something you really _can't_ do easily with the static hash table, because the number of entries needs to grow in proportion to the memory limit (so 2048 is almost certainly not going to be the right value there). This patch takes that direction, and drops the static hash table entirely in favor of using the hashmap.h API. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-23delta_base_cache: drop special treatment of blobsLibravatar Jeff King1-8/+0
When the delta base cache runs out of allowed memory, it has to drop entries. It does so by walking an LRU list, dropping objects until we are under the memory limit. But we actually walk the list twice: once to drop blobs, and then again to drop other objects (which are generally trees). This comes from 18bdec1 (Limit the size of the new delta_base_cache, 2007-03-19). This performs poorly as the number of entries grows, because any time dropping blobs does not satisfy the limit, we have to walk the _entire_ list, trees included, looking for blobs to drop, before starting to drop any trees. It's not generally a problem now, as the cache is limited to only 256 entries. But as we could benefit from increasing that in a future patch, it's worth looking at how it performs as the cache size grows. And the answer is "not well". The table below shows times for various operations with different values of MAX_DELTA_CACHE (which is not a run-time knob; I recompiled with -DMAX_DELTA_CACHE=$n for each). I chose "git log --raw" ("log-raw" in the table) because it will access all of the trees, but no blobs at all (so in a sense it is a worst case for this problem, because we will always walk over the entire list of trees once before realizing there are no blobs to drop). This is also representative of other tree-only operations like "rev-list --objects" and "git log -- <path>". I also timed "git log -Sfoo --raw" ("log-S" in the table). It similarly accesses all of the trees, but also the blobs for each commit. It's representative of "git log -p", though it emphasizes the cost of blob access more, as "-S" is cheaper than computing an actual blob diff. All timings are best-of-3 wall-clock times (though they all were CPU bound, so the user CPU times are similar). The repositories were fully packed with --depth=50, and the default core.deltaBaseCacheLimit of 96M was in effect. The current value of MAX_DELTA_CACHE is 256, so I started there and worked up by factors of 2. First, here are values for git.git (the asterisk signals the fastest run for each operation): MAX_DELTA_CACHE log-raw log-S --------------- --------- --------- 256 0m02.212s 0m12.634s 512 0m02.136s* 0m10.614s 1024 0m02.156s 0m08.614s 2048 0m02.208s 0m07.062s 4096 0m02.190s 0m06.484s* 8192 0m02.176s 0m07.635s 16384 0m02.913s 0m19.845s 32768 0m03.617s 1m05.507s 65536 0m04.031s 1m18.488s You can see that for the tree-only log-raw case, we don't actually benefit that much as the cache grows (all the differences up through 8192 are basically just noise; this is probably because we don't actually have that many distinct trees in git.git). But for log-S, we get a definite speed improvement as the cache grows, but the improvements are lost as cache size grows and the linear LRU management starts to dominate. Here's the same thing run against linux.git: MAX_DELTA_CACHE log-raw log-S --------------- --------- ---------- 256 0m40.987s 5m13.216s 512 0m37.949s 5m03.243s 1024 0m35.977s 4m50.580s 2048 0m33.855s 4m39.818s 4096 0m32.913s 4m47.299s* 8192 0m32.176s* 5m14.650s 16384 0m32.185s 6m31.625s 32768 0m38.056s 9m31.136s 65536 1m30.518s 17m38.549s The pattern is similar, though the effect in log-raw is more pronounced here. The times dip down in the middle, and then go back up as we keep growing. So we know there's a problem. What's the solution? The obvious one is to improve the data structure to avoid walking over tree entries during the looking-for-blobs traversal. We can do this by keeping _two_ LRU lists: one for blobs, and one for other objects. We drop items from the blob LRU first, and then from the tree LRU (if necessary). Here's git.git using that strategy: MAX_DELTA_CACHE log-raw log-S --------------- --------- ---------- 256 0m02.264s 0m12.830s 512 0m02.201s 0m10.771s 1024 0m02.181s 0m08.593s 2048 0m02.205s 0m07.116s 4096 0m02.158s 0m06.537s* 8192 0m02.213s 0m07.246s 16384 0m02.155s* 0m10.975s 32768 0m02.159s 0m16.047s 65536 0m02.181s 0m16.992s The upswing on log-raw is gone completely. But log-S still has it (albeit much better than without this strategy). Let's see what linux.git shows: MAX_DELTA_CACHE log-raw log-S --------------- --------- --------- 256 0m42.519s 5m14.654s 512 0m39.106s 5m04.708s 1024 0m36.802s 4m51.454s 2048 0m34.685s 4m39.378s* 4096 0m33.663s 4m44.047s 8192 0m33.157s 4m50.644s 16384 0m33.090s* 4m49.648s 32768 0m33.458s 4m53.371s 65536 0m33.563s 5m04.580s The results are similar. The tree-only case again performs well (not surprising; we're literally just dropping the one useless walk, and not otherwise changing the cache eviction strategy at all). But the log-S case again does a bit worse as the cache grows (though possibly that's within the noise, which is much larger for this case). Perhaps this is an indication that the "remove blobs first" strategy is not actually optimal. The intent of it is to avoid blowing out the tree cache when we see large blobs, but it also means we'll throw away useful, recent blobs in favor of older trees. Let's run the same numbers without caring about object type at all (i.e., one LRU list, and always evicting whatever is at the head, regardless of type). Here's git.git: MAX_DELTA_CACHE log-raw log-S --------------- --------- --------- 256 0m02.227s 0m12.821s 512 0m02.143s 0m10.602s 1024 0m02.127s 0m08.642s 2048 0m02.148s 0m07.123s 4096 0m02.194s 0m06.448s* 8192 0m02.239s 0m06.504s 16384 0m02.144s* 0m06.502s 32768 0m02.202s 0m06.622s 65536 0m02.230s 0m06.677s Much smoother; there's no dramatic upswing as we increase the cache size (some remains, though it's small enough that it's mostly run-to-run noise. E.g., in the log-raw case, note how 8192 is 50-100ms higher than its neighbors). Note also that we stop getting any real benefit for log-S after about 4096 entries; that number will depend on the size of the repository, the size of the blob entries, and the memory limit of the cache. Let's see what linux.git shows for the same strategy: MAX_DELTA_CACHE log-raw log-S --------------- --------- --------- 256 0m41.661s 5m12.410s 512 0m39.547s 5m07.920s 1024 0m37.054s 4m54.666s 2048 0m35.871s 4m41.194s* 4096 0m34.646s 4m51.648s 8192 0m33.881s 4m55.342s 16384 0m35.190s 5m00.122s 32768 0m35.060s 4m58.851s 65536 0m33.311s* 4m51.420s It's similarly good. As with the "separate blob LRU" strategy, there's a lot of noise on the log-S run here. But it's certainly not any worse, is possibly a bit better, and the improvement over "separate blob LRU" on the git.git case is dramatic. So it seems like a clear winner, and that's what this patch implements. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-23delta_base_cache: use list.h for LRULibravatar Jeff King1-22/+16
We keep an LRU list of entries for when we need to drop something from an over-full cache. The list is implemented as a circular doubly-linked list, which is exactly what list.h provides. We can save a few lines by using the list.h macros and functions. More importantly, this makes the code easier to follow, as the reader sees explicit concepts like "list_add_tail()" instead of pointer manipulation. As a bonus, the list_entry() macro lets us place the lru pointers anywhere inside the delta_base_cache_entry struct (as opposed to just casting the pointer, which requires it at the front of the struct). This will be useful in later patches when we need to place other items at the front of the struct (e.g., our hashmap implementation requires this). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-23release_delta_base_cache: reuse existing detach functionLibravatar Jeff King1-4/+1
This function drops an entry entirely from the cache, meaning that aside from the freeing of the buffer, it is exactly equivalent to detach_delta_base_cache_entry(). Let's build on top of the detach function, which shortens the code and will make it simpler when we change out the underlying storage in future patches. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-23clear_delta_base_cache_entry: use a more descriptive nameLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+7
The delta base cache entries are stored in a fixed-length hash table. So the way to remove an entry is to "clear" the slot in the table, and that is what this function does. However, the name is a leaky abstraction. If we were to change the hash table implementation, it would no longer be about "clearing". We should name it after _what_ it does, not _how_ it does it. I.e., something like "remove" instead of "clear". But that does not tell the whole story, either. The subtle thing about this function is that it removes the entry, but does not free the entry data. So a more descriptive name is "detach"; we give ownership of the data buffer to the caller, and remove any other resources. This patch uses the name detach_delta_base_cache_entry(). We could further model this after functions like strbuf_detach(), which pass back all of the detached information. However, since there are so many bits of information in the struct (the data, the size, the type), and so few callers (only one), it's not worth that awkwardness. The name change and a comment can make the intent clear. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-23cache_or_unpack_entry: drop keep_cache parameterLibravatar Jeff King1-10/+3
There is only one caller of cache_or_unpack_entry() and it always passes 1 for the keep_cache parameter. We can simplify it by dropping the "!keep_cache" case. Another call, which did pass 0, was dropped in abe601b (sha1_file: remove recursion in unpack_entry, 2013-03-27), as unpack_entry() now does more complicated things than a simple unpack when there is a cache miss. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-15clone: factor out checking for an alternate pathLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+76
In a later patch we want to determine if a path is suitable as an alternate from other commands than builtin/clone. Move the checking functionality of `add_one_reference` to `compute_alternate_path` that is defined in cache.h. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-12Merge branch 'vs/typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* vs/typofix: Spelling fixes
2016-08-11Spelling fixesLibravatar Ville Skyttä1-1/+1
<BAD> <CORRECTED> accidently accidentally commited committed dependancy dependency emtpy empty existance existence explicitely explicitly git-upload-achive git-upload-archive hierachy hierarchy indegee indegree intial initial mulitple multiple non-existant non-existent precendence. precedence. priviledged privileged programatically programmatically psuedo-binary pseudo-binary soemwhere somewhere successfull successful transfering transferring uncommited uncommitted unkown unknown usefull useful writting writing Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-10Merge branch 'js/am-3-merge-recursive-direct'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
"git am -3" calls "git merge-recursive" when it needs to fall back to a three-way merge; this call has been turned into an internal subroutine call instead of spawning a separate subprocess. * js/am-3-merge-recursive-direct: merge-recursive: flush output buffer even when erroring out merge_trees(): ensure that the callers release output buffer merge-recursive: offer an option to retain the output in 'obuf' merge-recursive: write the commit title in one go merge-recursive: flush output buffer before printing error messages am -3: use merge_recursive() directly again merge-recursive: switch to returning errors instead of dying merge-recursive: handle return values indicating errors merge-recursive: allow write_tree_from_memory() to error out merge-recursive: avoid returning a wholesale struct merge_recursive: abort properly upon errors prepare the builtins for a libified merge_recursive() merge-recursive: clarify code in was_tracked() die(_("BUG")): avoid translating bug messages die("bug"): report bugs consistently t5520: verify that `pull --rebase` shows the helpful advice when failing
2016-08-08Merge branch 'jk/pack-objects-optim'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-48/+18
"git pack-objects" has a few options that tell it not to pack objects found in certain packfiles, which require it to scan .idx files of all available packs. The codepaths involved in these operations have been optimized for a common case of not having any non-local pack and/or any .kept pack. * jk/pack-objects-optim: pack-objects: compute local/ignore_pack_keep early pack-objects: break out of want_object loop early find_pack_entry: replace last_found_pack with MRU cache add generic most-recently-used list sha1_file: drop free_pack_by_name t/perf: add tests for many-pack scenarios
2016-07-29find_pack_entry: replace last_found_pack with MRU cacheLibravatar Jeff King1-18/+18
Each pack has an index for looking up entries in O(log n) time, but if we have multiple packs, we have to scan through them linearly. This can produce a measurable overhead for some operations. We dealt with this long ago in f7c22cc (always start looking up objects in the last used pack first, 2007-05-30), which keeps what is essentially a 1-element most-recently-used cache. In theory, we should be able to do better by keeping a similar but longer cache, that is the same length as the pack-list itself. Since we now have a convenient generic MRU structure, we can plug it in and measure. Here are the numbers for running p5303 against linux.git: Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5303.3: rev-list (1) 31.56(31.28+0.27) 31.30(31.08+0.20) -0.8% 5303.4: repack (1) 40.62(39.35+2.36) 40.60(39.27+2.44) -0.0% 5303.6: rev-list (50) 31.31(31.06+0.23) 31.23(31.00+0.22) -0.3% 5303.7: repack (50) 58.65(69.12+1.94) 58.27(68.64+2.05) -0.6% 5303.9: rev-list (1000) 38.74(38.40+0.33) 31.87(31.62+0.24) -17.7% 5303.10: repack (1000) 367.20(441.80+4.62) 342.00(414.04+3.72) -6.9% The main numbers of interest here are the rev-list ones (since that is exercising the normal object lookup code path). The single-pack case shouldn't improve at all; the 260ms speedup there is just part of the run-to-run noise (but it's important to note that we didn't make anything worse with the overhead of maintaining our cache). In the 50-pack case, we see similar results. There may be a slight improvement, but it's mostly within the noise. The 1000-pack case does show a big improvement, though. That carries over to the repack case, as well. Even though we haven't touched its pack-search loop yet, it does still do a lot of normal object lookups (e.g., for the internal revision walk), and so improves. As a point of reference, I also ran the 1000-pack test against a version of HEAD^ with the last_found_pack optimization disabled. It takes ~60s, so that gives an indication of how much even the single-element cache is helping. For comparison, here's a smaller repository, git.git: Test HEAD^ HEAD --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5303.3: rev-list (1) 1.56(1.54+0.01) 1.54(1.51+0.02) -1.3% 5303.4: repack (1) 1.84(1.80+0.10) 1.82(1.80+0.09) -1.1% 5303.6: rev-list (50) 1.58(1.55+0.02) 1.59(1.57+0.01) +0.6% 5303.7: repack (50) 2.50(3.18+0.04) 2.50(3.14+0.04) +0.0% 5303.9: rev-list (1000) 2.76(2.71+0.04) 2.24(2.21+0.02) -18.8% 5303.10: repack (1000) 13.21(19.56+0.25) 11.66(18.01+0.21) -11.7% You can see that the percentage improvement is similar. That's because the lookup we are optimizing is roughly O(nr_objects * nr_packs). Since the number of packs is constant in both tests, we'd expect the improvement to be linear in the number of objects. But the whole process is also linear in the number of objects, so the improvement is a constant factor. The exact improvement does also depend on the contents of the packs. In p5303, the extra packs all have 5 first-parent commits in them, which is a reasonable simulation of a pushed-to repository. But it also means that only 250 first-parent commits are in those packs (compared to almost 50,000 total in linux.git), and the rest are in the huge "base" pack. So once we start looking at history in taht big pack, that's where we'll find most everything, and even the 1-element cache gets close to 100% cache hits. You could almost certainly show better numbers with a more pathological case (e.g., distributing the objects more evenly across the packs). But that's simply not that realistic a scenario, so it makes more sense to focus on these numbers. The implementation itself is a straightforward application of the MRU code. We provide an MRU-ordered list of packs that shadows the packed_git list. This is easy to do because we only create and revise the pack list in one place. The "reprepare" code path actually drops the whole MRU and replaces it for simplicity. It would be more efficient to just add new entries, but there's not much point in optimizing here; repreparing happens rarely, and only after doing a lot of other expensive work. The key things to keep optimized are traversal (which is just a normal linked list, albeit with one extra level of indirection over the regular packed_git list), and marking (which is a constant number of pointer assignments, though slightly more than the old last_found_pack was; it doesn't seem to create a measurable slowdown, though). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-29sha1_file: drop free_pack_by_nameLibravatar Jeff King1-30/+0
The point of this function is to drop an entry from the "packed_git" cache that points to a file we might be overwriting, because our contents may not be the same (and hence the only caller was pack-objects as it moved a temporary packfile into place). In older versions of git, this could happen because the names of packfiles were derived from the set of objects they contained, not the actual bits on disk. But since 1190a1a (pack-objects: name pack files after trailer hash, 2013-12-05), the name reflects the actual bits on disk, and any two packfiles with the same name can be used interchangeably. Dropping this function not only saves a few lines of code, it makes the lifetime of "struct packed_git" much easier to reason about: namely, we now do not ever free these structs. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-28Merge branch 'nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git pack-objects" and "git index-pack" mostly operate with off_t when talking about the offset of objects in a packfile, but there were a handful of places that used "unsigned long" to hold that value, leading to an unintended truncation. * nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit: fsck: use streaming interface for large blobs in pack pack-objects: do not truncate result in-pack object size on 32-bit systems index-pack: correct "offset" type in unpack_entry_data() index-pack: report correct bad object offsets even if they are large index-pack: correct "len" type in unpack_data() sha1_file.c: use type off_t* for object_info->disk_sizep pack-objects: pass length to check_pack_crc() without truncation
2016-07-26die("bug"): report bugs consistentlyLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+2
The vast majority of error messages in Git's source code which report a bug use the convention to prefix the message with "BUG:". As part of cleaning up merge-recursive to stop die()ing except in case of detected bugs, let's just make the remainder of the bug reports consistent with the de facto rule. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-12pack-objects: pass length to check_pack_crc() without truncationLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
On 32 bit systems with large file support, unsigned long is 32-bit while the two offsets in the subtraction expression (pack-objects has the exact same expression as in sha1_file.c but not shown in diff) are in 64-bit. If an in-pack object is larger than 2^32 len/datalen is truncated and we get a misleading "error: bad packed object CRC for ..." as a result. Use off_t for len and datalen. check_pack_crc() already accepts this argument as off_t and can deal with 4+ GB. Noticed-by: Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-23Merge branch 'nd/worktree-various-heads'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The experimental "multiple worktree" feature gains more safety to forbid operations on a branch that is checked out or being actively worked on elsewhere, by noticing that e.g. it is being rebased. * nd/worktree-various-heads: branch: do not rename a branch under bisect or rebase worktree.c: check whether branch is bisected in another worktree wt-status.c: split bisect detection out of wt_status_get_state() worktree.c: check whether branch is rebased in another worktree worktree.c: avoid referencing to worktrees[i] multiple times wt-status.c: make wt_status_check_rebase() work on any worktree wt-status.c: split rebase detection out of wt_status_get_state() path.c: refactor and add worktree_git_path() worktree.c: mark current worktree worktree.c: make find_shared_symref() return struct worktree * worktree.c: store "id" instead of "git_dir" path.c: add git_common_path() and strbuf_git_common_path() dir.c: rename str(n)cmp_icase to fspath(n)cmp
2016-05-09sha1_file.c: use {error,die,warning}_errno()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-19/+13
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-22dir.c: rename str(n)cmp_icase to fspath(n)cmpLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
These functions compare two paths that are taken from file system. Depending on the running file system, paths may need to be compared case-sensitively or not, and maybe even something else in future. The current names do not convey that well. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-03-04Merge branch 'jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+17
The code to read the pack data using the offsets stored in the pack idx file has been made more carefully check the validity of the data in the idx. * jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety: sha1_file.c: mark strings for translation use_pack: handle signed off_t overflow nth_packed_object_offset: bounds-check extended offset t5313: test bounds-checks of corrupted/malicious pack/idx files
2016-02-27sha1_file.c: mark strings for translationLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-26Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+13
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 ...
2016-02-25use_pack: handle signed off_t overflowLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+2
A v2 pack index file can specify an offset within a packfile of up to 2^64-1 bytes. On a system with a signed 64-bit off_t, we can represent only up to 2^63-1. This means that a corrupted .idx file can end up with a negative offset in the pack code. Our bounds-checking use_pack function looks for too-large offsets, but not for ones that have wrapped around to negative. Let's do so, which fixes an out-of-bounds access demonstrated in t5313. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-25nth_packed_object_offset: bounds-check extended offsetLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+15
If a pack .idx file has a corrupted offset for an object, we may try to access an offset in the .idx or .pack file that is larger than the file's size. For the .pack case, we have use_pack() to protect us, which realizes the access is out of bounds. But if the corrupted value asks us to look in the .idx file's secondary 64-bit offset table, we blindly add it to the mmap'd index data and access arbitrary memory. We can fix this with a simple bounds-check compared to the size we found when we opened the .idx file. Note that there's similar code in index-pack that is triggered only during "index-pack --verify". To support both, we pull the bounds-check into a separate function, which dies when it sees a corrupted file. It would be nice if we could return an error, so that the pack code could try to find a good copy of the object elsewhere. Currently nth_packed_object_offset doesn't have any way to return an error, but it could probably use "0" as a sentinel value (since no object can start there). This is the minimal fix, and we can improve the resilience later on top. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computationLibravatar Jeff King1-9/+11
If our size computation overflows size_t, we may allocate a much smaller buffer than we expected and overflow it. It's probably impossible to trigger an overflow in most of these sites in practice, but it is easy enough convert their additions and multiplications into overflow-checking variants. This may be fixing real bugs, and it makes auditing the code easier. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAYLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
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>
2016-01-15clone/sha1_file: read info/alternates with strbuf_getline()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info/alternates is a text file that can be edited with a DOS editor. We do not want to use the real path with CR appended at the end. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-15strbuf: introduce strbuf_getline_{lf,nul}()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The strbuf_getline() interface allows a byte other than LF or NUL as the line terminator, but this is only because I wrote these codepaths anticipating that there might be a value other than NUL and LF that could be useful when I introduced line_termination long time ago. No useful caller that uses other value has emerged. By now, it is clear that the interface is overly broad without a good reason. Many codepaths have hardcoded preference to read either LF terminated or NUL terminated records from their input, and then call strbuf_getline() with LF or NUL as the third parameter. This step introduces two thin wrappers around strbuf_getline(), namely, strbuf_getline_lf() and strbuf_getline_nul(), and mechanically rewrites these call sites to call either one of them. The changes contained in this patch are: * introduction of these two functions in strbuf.[ch] * mechanical conversion of all callers to strbuf_getline() with either '\n' or '\0' as the third parameter to instead call the respective thin wrapper. After this step, output from "git grep 'strbuf_getline('" would become a lot smaller. An interim goal of this series is to make this an empty set, so that we can have strbuf_getline_crlf() take over the shorter name strbuf_getline(). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-21Merge branch 'bc/format-patch-null-from-line'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
"format-patch" has learned a new option to zero-out the commit object name on the mbox "From " line. * bc/format-patch-null-from-line: format-patch: check that header line has expected format format-patch: add an option to suppress commit hash sha1_file.c: introduce a null_oid constant
2015-12-15Merge branch 'jk/prune-mtime'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The helper used to iterate over loose object directories to prune stale objects did not closedir() immediately when it is done with a directory--a callback such as the one used for "git prune" may want to do rmdir(), but it would fail on open directory on platforms such as WinXP. * jk/prune-mtime: prune: close directory earlier during loose-object directory traversal
2015-12-14sha1_file.c: introduce a null_oid constantLibravatar brian m. carlson1-0/+1
null_oid is the struct object_id equivalent to null_sha1. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-11-20sha1_file: introduce has_object_file helper.Libravatar brian m. carlson1-0/+5
Add has_object_file, which is a wrapper around has_sha1_file, but for struct object_id. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20Merge branch 'dk/gc-idx-wo-pack'Libravatar Jeff King1-17/+6
Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them. * dk/gc-idx-wo-pack: gc: remove garbage .idx files from pack dir t5304: test cleaning pack garbage prepare_packed_git(): refactor garbage reporting in pack directory
2015-10-30Merge branch 'js/misc-fixes'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Various compilation fixes and squelching of warnings. * js/misc-fixes: Correct fscanf formatting string for I64u values Silence GCC's "cast of pointer to integer of a different size" warning Squelch warning about an integer overflow
2015-10-26Silence GCC's "cast of pointer to integer of a different size" warningLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
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>
2015-10-20Merge branch 'jk/war-on-sprintf'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-67/+59
Many allocations that is manually counted (correctly) that are followed by strcpy/sprintf have been replaced with a less error prone constructs such as xstrfmt. Macintosh-specific breakage was noticed and corrected in this reroll. * jk/war-on-sprintf: (70 commits) name-rev: use strip_suffix to avoid magic numbers use strbuf_complete to conditionally append slash fsck: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir Makefile: drop D_INO_IN_DIRENT build knob fsck: drop inode-sorting code convert strncpy to memcpy notes: document length of fanout path with a constant color: add color_set helper for copying raw colors prefer memcpy to strcpy help: clean up kfmclient munging receive-pack: simplify keep_arg computation avoid sprintf and strcpy with flex arrays use alloc_ref rather than hand-allocating "struct ref" color: add overflow checks for parsing colors drop strcpy in favor of raw sha1_to_hex use sha1_to_hex_r() instead of strcpy daemon: use cld->env_array when re-spawning stat_tracking_info: convert to argv_array http-push: use an argv_array for setup_revisions fetch-pack: use argv_array for index-pack / unpack-objects ...
2015-10-15Merge branch 'js/clone-dissociate'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-22/+37
"git clone --dissociate" runs a big "git repack" process at the end, and it helps to close file descriptors that are open on the packs and their idx files before doing so on filesystems that cannot remove a file that is still open. * js/clone-dissociate: clone --dissociate: avoid locking pack files sha1_file.c: add a function to release all packs sha1_file: consolidate code to close a pack's file descriptor t5700: demonstrate a Windows file locking issue with `git clone --dissociate`
2015-10-07sha1_file.c: add a function to release all packsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-3/+20
On Windows, files that are in use cannot be removed or renamed. That means that we have to release pack files when we are about to, say, repack them. Let's introduce a convenient function to close all the pack files and their idx files. While at it, we consolidate the close windows/close fd/close index stanza in `free_pack_by_name()` into the `close_pack()` function that is used by the new `close_all_packs()` function to avoid repeated code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05sha1_file: consolidate code to close a pack's file descriptorLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-20/+18
There was a lot of repeated code to close the file descriptor of a given pack. Let's just refactor this code into a single function. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05avoid sprintf and strcpy with flex arraysLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+3
When we are allocating a struct with a FLEX_ARRAY member, we generally compute the size of the array and then sprintf or strcpy into it. Normally we could improve a dynamic allocation like this by using xstrfmt, but it doesn't work here; we have to account for the size of the rest of the struct. But we can improve things a bit by storing the length that we use for the allocation, and then feeding it to xsnprintf or memcpy, which makes it more obvious that we are not writing more than the allocated number of bytes. It would be nice if we had some kind of helper for allocating generic flex arrays, but it doesn't work that well: - the call signature is a little bit unwieldy: d = flex_struct(sizeof(*d), offsetof(d, path), fmt, ...); You need offsetof here instead of just writing to the end of the base size, because we don't know how the struct is packed (partially this is because FLEX_ARRAY might not be zero, though we can account for that; but the size of the struct may actually be rounded up for alignment, and we can't know that). - some sites do clever things, like over-allocating because they know they will write larger things into the buffer later (e.g., struct packed_git here). So we're better off to just write out each allocation (or add type-specific helpers, though many of these are one-off allocations anyway). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05write_loose_object: convert to strbufLibravatar Jeff King1-20/+22
When creating a loose object tempfile, we use a fixed PATH_MAX-sized buffer, and strcpy directly into it. This isn't buggy, because we do a rough check of the size, but there's no verification that our guesstimate of the required space is enough (in fact, it's several bytes too big for the current naming scheme). Let's switch to a strbuf, which makes this much easier to verify. The allocation overhead should be negligible, since we are replacing a static buffer with a static strbuf, and we'll only need to allocate on the first call. While we're here, we can also document a subtle interaction with mkstemp that would be easy to overlook. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>