Whenever updating references or reflog entries in the reftable stack, we
need to add a new table to the stack, thus growing the stack's length by
one. The stack can grow to become quite long rather quickly, leading to
performance issues when trying to read records. But besides performance
issues, this can also lead to exhaustion of file descriptors very
rapidly as every single table requires a separate descriptor when
opening the stack.
While git-pack-refs(1) fixes this issue for us by merging the tables, it
runs too irregularly to keep the length of the stack within reasonable
limits. This is why the reftable stack has an auto-compaction mechanism:
`reftable_stack_add()` will call `reftable_stack_auto_compact()` after
its added the new table, which will auto-compact the stack as required.
But while this logic works alright for `reftable_stack_add()`, we do not
do the same in `reftable_addition_commit()`, which is the transactional
equivalent to the former function that allows us to write multiple
updates to the stack atomically. Consequentially, we will easily run
into file descriptor exhaustion in code paths that use many separate
transactions like e.g. non-atomic fetches.
Fix this issue by calling `reftable_stack_auto_compact()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While we have several tests that check whether we correctly perform
auto-compaction when manually calling `reftable_stack_auto_compact()`,
we don't have any tests that verify whether `reftable_stack_add()` does
call it automatically. Add one.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are calls to write(3P) where we don't properly handle interrupts.
Convert them to use `write_in_full()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce and apply coccinelle rule to discourage an explicit
comparison between a pointer and NULL, and applies the clean-up to
the maintenance track.
* ep/maint-equals-null-cocci:
tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
contrib/coccinnelle: add equals-null.cocci
Problems identified by Coverity in the reftable code have been
corrected.
* hn/reftable-coverity-fixes:
reftable: add print functions to the record types
reftable: make reftable_record a tagged union
reftable: remove outdated file reftable.c
reftable: implement record equality generically
reftable: make reftable-record.h function signatures const correct
reftable: handle null refnames in reftable_ref_record_equal
reftable: drop stray printf in readwrite_test
reftable: order unittests by complexity
reftable: all xxx_free() functions accept NULL arguments
reftable: fix resource warning
reftable: ignore remove() return value in stack_test.c
reftable: check reftable_stack_auto_compact() return value
reftable: fix resource leak blocksource.c
reftable: fix resource leak in block.c error path
reftable: fix OOB stack write in print functions
If the cleanup fails, there is nothing we can do.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create files with mode 0666, so umask works as intended. Provides an override,
which is useful to support shared repos (test t1301-shared-repo.sh).
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Patrick Steinhardt