To help test the performance of permuting the contents of the hash-cache
when generating a MIDX bitmap, we need a bitmap which has its hash-cache
populated.
And since multi-pack bitmaps don't add *new* values to the hash-cache,
we have to rely on a single-pack bitmap to generate those values for us.
Therefore, generate a pack bitmap before the MIDX one in order to ensure
that the MIDX bitmap has entries in its hash-cache. Since we don't want
to time generating the pack bitmap, move that to a non-perf test run
before we try to generate the MIDX bitmap.
Likewise, get rid of the pack bitmap afterwords, to make certain that we
are not accidentally using it in the performance tests run later on.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When this performance test was originally written, `core.multiPackIndex`
was not the default and thus had to be enabled. But now that we have
18e449f86b (midx: enable core.multiPackIndex by default, 2020-09-25), we
no longer need this.
Drop the unnecessary setup (even though it's not hurting anything, it is
unnecessary at best and confusing at worst).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of the tests in test_full_bitmap rely on having a tag named
perf-tag in place. We could create it in test_full_bitmap(), but we want
to have it in place before the repack starts.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the previous commit, the bitmap writing code learned to propagate
values from an existing hash-cache extension into the bitmap that it is
writing.
Now that that functionality exists, let's expose it by teaching the 'git
multi-pack-index' builtin to respect the `pack.writeBitmapHashCache`
option so that the hash-cache may be written at all.
Two minor points worth noting here:
- The 'git multi-pack-index write' sub-command didn't previously read
any configuration (instead this is handled in the base command). A
separate handler is added here to respect this write-specific
config option.
- I briefly considered adding a 'bitmap_flags' field to the static
options struct, but decided against it since it would require
plumbing through a new parameter to the write_midx_file() function.
Instead, a new MIDX-specific flag is added, which is translated to
the corresponding bitmap one.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an old bitmap exists while writing a new one, we load it and build
a "reposition" table which maps bit positions of objects from the old
bitmap to their respective positions in the new bitmap. This can help
when we encounter a commit which was selected in both the old and new
bitmap, since we only need to permute its bit (not recompute it from
scratch).
We do not, however, repurpose existing namehash values in the case of
the hash-cache extension. There has been thus far no good reason to do
so, since all of the namehash values for objects in the new bitmap would
be populated during the traversal that was just performed by
pack-objects when generating single-pack reachability bitmaps.
But this isn't the case for multi-pack bitmaps, which are written via
`git multi-pack-index write --bitmap` and do not perform any traversal.
In this case all namehash values are set to zero, but we don't even
bother to check the `pack.writeBitmapHashcache` option anyway, so it
fails to matter.
There are two approaches we could take to fill in non-zero hash-cache
values:
- have either the multi-pack-index builtin run its own
traversal to attempt to fill in some values, or let a hypothetical
caller (like `pack-objects` when `repack` eventually drives the
`multi-pack-index` builtin) fill in the values they found during
their traversal
- or copy any existing namehash values that were stored in an
existing bitmap to their corresponding positions in the new bitmap
In a system where a repository is generally repacked with `git repack
--geometric=<d>` and occasionally repacked with `git repack -a`, the
hash-cache coverage will tend towards all objects.
Since populating the hash-cache is additive (i.e., doing so only helps
our delta search), any intermediate lack of full coverage is just fine.
So let's start by just propagating any values from the existing
hash-cache if we see one.
The next patch will respect the `pack.writeBitmapHashcache` option while
writing MIDX bitmaps, and then test this new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-bitmap writer code is about to learn how to propagate values
from an existing hash-cache. To prepare, teach the test-bitmap helper to
dump the values from a bitmap's hash-cache extension in order to test
those changes.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Starting in commit 0f533c7284 (pack-bitmap: read multi-pack bitmaps,
2021-08-31), we no longer look at the "struct bitmap_index" passed to
try_partial_reuse(). This is because we only handle verbatim reuse from
a single pack: either the pack whose bitmap we're looking at, or the
"preferred" pack of a midx bitmap. And thus the primary item we look at
is the "pack" parameter added by that same commit, and not the
bitmap_git->pack parameter (which would be NULL for a midx bitmap). It's
our caller, reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap(), which decides which
pack to use and passes it in to us.
Drop the unused parameter to prevent confusion.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We never look at the repository argument which is passed. This makes
sense, since the multi_pack_index struct already tells us everything we
need to access the files in its associated object directory.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These new performance tests demonstrate effectively the same behavior as
p5310, but use a multi-pack bitmap instead of a single-pack one.
Notably, p5326 does not create a MIDX bitmap with multiple packs. This
is so we can measure a direct comparison between it and p5310. Any
difference between the two is measuring just the overhead of using MIDX
bitmaps.
Here are the results of p5310 and p5326 together, measured at the same
time and on the same machine (using a Xenon W-2255 CPU):
Test HEAD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
5310.2: repack to disk 96.78(93.39+11.33)
5310.3: simulated clone 9.98(9.79+0.19)
5310.4: simulated fetch 1.75(4.26+0.19)
5310.5: pack to file (bitmap) 28.20(27.87+8.70)
5310.6: rev-list (commits) 0.41(0.36+0.05)
5310.7: rev-list (objects) 1.61(1.54+0.07)
5310.8: rev-list count with blob:none 0.25(0.21+0.04)
5310.9: rev-list count with blob:limit=1k 2.65(2.54+0.10)
5310.10: rev-list count with tree:0 0.23(0.19+0.04)
5310.11: simulated partial clone 4.34(4.21+0.12)
5310.13: clone (partial bitmap) 11.05(12.21+0.48)
5310.14: pack to file (partial bitmap) 31.25(34.22+3.70)
5310.15: rev-list with tree filter (partial bitmap) 0.26(0.22+0.04)
versus the same tests (this time using a multi-pack index):
Test HEAD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
5326.2: setup multi-pack index 78.99(75.29+11.58)
5326.3: simulated clone 11.78(11.56+0.22)
5326.4: simulated fetch 1.70(4.49+0.13)
5326.5: pack to file (bitmap) 28.02(27.72+8.76)
5326.6: rev-list (commits) 0.42(0.36+0.06)
5326.7: rev-list (objects) 1.65(1.58+0.06)
5326.8: rev-list count with blob:none 0.26(0.21+0.05)
5326.9: rev-list count with blob:limit=1k 2.97(2.86+0.10)
5326.10: rev-list count with tree:0 0.25(0.20+0.04)
5326.11: simulated partial clone 5.65(5.49+0.16)
5326.13: clone (partial bitmap) 12.22(13.43+0.38)
5326.14: pack to file (partial bitmap) 30.05(31.57+7.25)
5326.15: rev-list with tree filter (partial bitmap) 0.24(0.20+0.04)
There is slight overhead in "simulated clone", "simulated partial
clone", and "clone (partial bitmap)". Unsurprisingly, that overhead is
due to using the MIDX's reverse index to map between bit positions and
MIDX positions.
This can be reproduced by running "git repack -adb" along with "git
multi-pack-index write --bitmap" in a large-ish repository. Then run:
$ perf record -o pack.perf git -c core.multiPackIndex=false \
pack-objects --all --stdout >/dev/null </dev/null
$ perf record -o midx.perf git -c core.multiPackIndex=true \
pack-objects --all --stdout >/dev/null </dev/null
and compare the two with "perf diff -c delta -o 1 pack.perf midx.perf".
The most notable results are below (the next largest positive delta is
+0.14%):
# Event 'cycles'
#
# Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... .................. ..........................
#
+5.86% git [.] nth_midxed_offset
+5.24% git [.] nth_midxed_pack_int_id
3.45% +0.97% git [.] offset_to_pack_pos
3.30% +0.57% git [.] pack_pos_to_offset
+0.30% git [.] pack_pos_to_midx
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new p5326 introduced by the next patch will want these same tests,
interjecting its own setup in between. Move them out so that both perf
tests can reuse them.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP' environment
variable to also write a multi-pack bitmap when
'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX' is set.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A number of these tests are focused only on pack-based bitmaps and need
to be updated to disable 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP' where
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This test is specifically about generating a midx still respecting a
pack-based bitmap file. Generating a MIDX bitmap would confuse the test.
Let's override the 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP' variable to
make sure we don't do so.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Generating a MIDX bitmap confuses many of the tests in t5310, which
expect to control whether and how bitmaps are written. Since the
relevant MIDX-bitmap tests here are covered already in t5326, let's just
disable the flag for the whole t5310 script.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Generating a MIDX bitmap causes tests which repack in a partial clone to
fail because they are missing objects. Missing objects is an expected
component of tests in t0410, so disable this knob altogether. Graceful
degradation when writing a bitmap with missing objects is tested in
t5326.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch introduces a new test, t5326, which tests the basic
functionality of multi-pack bitmaps.
Some trivial behavior is tested, such as:
- Whether bitmaps can be generated with more than one pack.
- Whether clones can be served with all objects in the bitmap.
- Whether follow-up fetches can be served with some objects outside of
the server's bitmap
These use lib-bitmap's tests (which in turn were pulled from t5310), and
we cover cases where the MIDX represents both a single pack and multiple
packs.
In addition, some non-trivial and MIDX-specific behavior is tested, too,
including:
- Whether multi-pack bitmaps behave correctly with respect to the
pack-reuse machinery when the base for some object is selected from
a different pack than the delta.
- Whether multi-pack bitmaps correctly respect the
pack.preferBitmapTips configuration.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subsequent tests will want to check for the existence of a multi-pack
bitmap which matches the multi-pack-index stored in the pack directory.
The multi-pack bitmap includes the hex checksum of the MIDX it
corresponds to in its filename (for example,
'$packdir/multi-pack-index-<checksum>.bitmap'). As a result, some tests
want a way to learn what '<checksum>' is.
This helper addresses that need by printing the checksum of the
repository's multi-pack-index.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We'll soon be adding a test script that will cover many of the same
bitmap concepts as t5310, but for MIDX bitmaps. Let's pull out as many
of the applicable tests as we can so we don't have to rewrite them.
There should be no functional change to t5310; we still run the same
operations in the same order.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Write multi-pack bitmaps in the format described by
Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt, inferring their presence with
the absence of '--bitmap'.
To write a multi-pack bitmap, this patch attempts to reuse as much of
the existing machinery from pack-objects as possible. Specifically, the
MIDX code prepares a packing_data struct that pretends as if a single
packfile has been generated containing all of the objects contained
within the MIDX.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This prepares the code in pack-bitmap to interpret the new multi-pack
bitmaps described in Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt, which
mostly involves converting bit positions to accommodate looking them up
in a MIDX.
Note that there are currently no writers who write multi-pack bitmaps,
and that this will be implemented in the subsequent commit. Note also
that get_midx_checksum() and get_midx_filename() are made non-static so
they can be called from pack-bitmap.c.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
try_partial_reuse() is used to mark any bits in the beginning of a
bitmap whose objects can be reused verbatim from the pack they came
from.
Currently this function returns void, and signals nothing to the caller
when bits could not be reused. But multi-pack bitmaps would benefit from
having such a signal, because they may try to pass objects which are in
bounds, but from a pack other than the preferred one.
Any extra calls are noops because of a conditional in
reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap(), but those loop iterations can be
avoided by letting try_partial_reuse() indicate when it can't accept any
more bits for reuse, and then listening to that signal.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a recent commit, pack-objects learned support for the
'pack.preferBitmapTips' configuration. This patch prepares the
multi-pack bitmap code to respect this configuration, too.
The yet-to-be implemented code will find that it is more efficient to
check whether each reference contains a prefix found in the configured
set of values rather than doing an additional traversal.
Implement a function 'bitmap_is_preferred_refname()' which will perform
that check. Its caller will be added in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A subsequent patch to support reading MIDX bitmaps will be less noisy
after extracting a generic function to fetch the nth OID contained in
the bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A subsequent patch to support reading MIDX bitmaps will be less noisy
after extracting a generic function to return how many objects are
contained in a bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Opening multiple instance of the same MIDX can lead to problems like two
separate packed_git structures which represent the same pack being added
to the repository's object store.
The above scenario can happen because prepare_midx_pack() checks if
`m->packs[pack_int_id]` is NULL in order to determine if a pack has been
opened and installed in the repository before. But a caller can
construct two copies of the same MIDX by calling get_multi_pack_index()
and load_multi_pack_index() since the former manipulates the
object store directly but the latter is a lower-level routine which
allocates a new MIDX for each call.
So if prepare_midx_pack() is called on multiple MIDXs with the same
pack_int_id, then that pack will be installed twice in the object
store's packed_git pointer.
This can lead to problems in, for e.g., the pack-bitmap code, which does
something like the following (in pack-bitmap.c:open_pack_bitmap()):
struct bitmap_index *bitmap_git = ...;
for (p = get_all_packs(r); p; p = p->next) {
if (open_pack_bitmap_1(bitmap_git, p) == 0)
ret = 0;
}
which is a problem if two copies of the same pack exist in the
packed_git list because pack-bitmap.c:open_pack_bitmap_1() contains a
conditional like the following:
if (bitmap_git->pack || bitmap_git->midx) {
/* ignore extra bitmap file; we can only handle one */
warning("ignoring extra bitmap file: %s", packfile->pack_name);
close(fd);
return -1;
}
Avoid this scenario by not letting write_midx_internal() open a MIDX
that isn't also pointed at by the object store. So long as this is the
case, other routines should prefer to open MIDXs with
get_multi_pack_index() or reprepare_packed_git() instead of creating
instances on their own. Because get_multi_pack_index() returns
`r->object_store->multi_pack_index` if it is non-NULL, we'll only have
one instance of a MIDX open at one time, avoiding these problems.
To encourage this, drop the `struct multi_pack_index *` parameter from
`write_midx_internal()`, and rely instead on the `object_dir` to find
(or initialize) the correct MIDX instance.
Likewise, replace the call to `close_midx()` with
`close_object_store()`, since we're about to replace the MIDX with a new
one and should invalidate the object store's memory of any MIDX that
might have existed beforehand.
Note that this now forbids passing object directories that don't belong
to alternate repositories over `--object-dir`, since before we would
have happily opened a MIDX in any directory, but now restrict ourselves
to only those reachable by `r->objects->multi_pack_index` (and alternate
MIDXs that we can see by walking the `next` pointer).
As far as I can tell, supporting arbitrary directories with
`--object-dir` was a historical accident, since even the documentation
says `<alt>` when referring to the value passed to this option.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a repository has at least one alternate, the MIDX belonging to each
alternate is accessed through the `next` pointer on the main object
store's copy of the MIDX. close_midx() didn't bother to close any
of the linked MIDXs. It likewise didn't free the memory pointed to by
`m`, leaving uninitialized bytes with live pointers to them left around
in the heap.
Clean this up by closing linked MIDXs, and freeing up the memory pointed
to by each of them. When callers call close_midx(), then they can
discard the entire linked list of MIDXs and set their pointer to the
head of that list to NULL.
This isn't strictly required for the upcoming patches, but it makes it
much more difficult (though still possible, for e.g., by calling
`close_midx(m->next)` which leaves `m->next` pointing at uninitialized
bytes) to have pointers to uninitialized memory.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 9218c6a40c (midx: allow marking a pack as preferred, 2021-03-30), the
multi-pack index code learned how to select a pack which all duplicate
objects are selected from. That is, if an object appears in multiple
packs, select the copy in the preferred pack before breaking ties
according to the other rules like pack mtime and readdir() order.
Not specifying a preferred pack can cause serious problems with
multi-pack reachability bitmaps, because these bitmaps rely on having at
least one pack from which all duplicates are selected. Not having such a
pack causes problems with the code in pack-objects to reuse packs
verbatim (e.g., that code assumes that a delta object in a chunk of pack
sent verbatim will have its base object sent from the same pack).
So why does not marking a pack preferred cause problems here? The reason
is roughly as follows:
- Ties are broken (when handling duplicate objects) by sorting
according to midx_oid_compare(), which sorts objects by OID,
preferred-ness, pack mtime, and finally pack ID (more on that
later).
- The psuedo pack-order (described in
Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt under the section
"multi-pack-index reverse indexes") is computed by
midx_pack_order(), and sorts by pack ID and pack offset, with
preferred packs sorting first.
- But! Pack IDs come from incrementing the pack count in
add_pack_to_midx(), which is a callback to
for_each_file_in_pack_dir(), meaning that pack IDs are assigned in
readdir() order.
When specifying a preferred pack, all of that works fine, because
duplicate objects are correctly resolved in favor of the copy in the
preferred pack, and the preferred pack sorts first in the object order.
"Sorting first" is critical, because the bitmap code relies on finding
out which pack holds the first object in the MIDX's pseudo pack-order to
determine which pack is preferred.
But if we didn't specify a preferred pack, and the pack which comes
first in readdir() order does not also have the lowest timestamp, then
it's possible that that pack (the one that sorts first in pseudo-pack
order, which the bitmap code will treat as the preferred one) did *not*
have all duplicate objects resolved in its favor, resulting in breakage.
The fix is simple: pick a (semi-arbitrary, non-empty) preferred pack
when none was specified. This forces that pack to have duplicates
resolved in its favor, and (critically) to sort first in pseudo-pack
order. Unfortunately, testing this behavior portably isn't possible,
since it depends on readdir() order which isn't guaranteed by POSIX.
(Note that multi-pack reachability bitmaps have yet to be implemented;
so in that sense this patch is fixing a bug which does not yet exist.
But by having this patch beforehand, we can prevent the bug from ever
materializing.)
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The soon-to-be-implemented multi-pack bitmap treats object in the first
bit position specially by assuming that all objects in the pack it was
selected from are also represented from that pack in the MIDX. In other
words, the pack from which the first object was selected must also have
all of its other objects selected from that same pack in the MIDX in
case of any duplicates.
But this assumption relies on the fact that there is at least one object
in that pack to begin with; otherwise the object in the first bit
position isn't from a preferred pack, in which case we can no longer
assume that all objects in that pack were also selected from the same
pack.
Guard this assumption by checking the number of objects in the given
preferred pack, and failing if the given pack is empty.
To make sure we can safely perform this check, open any packs which are
contained in an existing MIDX via prepare_midx_pack(). The same is done
for new packs via the add_pack_to_midx() callback, but packs picked up
from a previous MIDX will not yet have these opened.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When writing a new multi-pack index, write_midx_internal() attempts to
clean up any auxiliary files (currently just the MIDX's `.rev` file, but
soon to include a `.bitmap`, too) corresponding to the MIDX it's
replacing.
This step should happen after the new MIDX is written into place, since
doing so beforehand means that the old MIDX could be read without its
corresponding .rev file.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If using --object-dir to point into an object directory which belongs to
a different repository than the one in the current working directory,
such as:
git init repo
git -C repo ... # add some objects
cd alternate
git multi-pack-index --object-dir ../repo/.git/objects write
the binary will segfault trying to access the object-dir via the repo it
found, but that's not fully initialized. Worse, if we later call
clear_midx_files_ext(), we will use `the_repository` and remove files
out of the wrong object directory.
Fix this by using the given object_dir (or the object directory of
`the_repository` if `--object-dir` wasn't given) to properly to clean up
the *.rev files, avoiding the crash.
Original-patch-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack-index command supports working with arbitrary object
directories via the `--object-dir` flag. Though this has historically
worked in arbitrary repositories (including when the command itself was
run outside of a Git repository), this has been somewhat of an accident.
For example, running:
git multi-pack-index write --object-dir=/path/to/repo/objects
outside of a Git repository causes a BUG(). This is because the
top-level `cmd_multi_pack_index()` function stops parsing when it sees
"write", and then fills in the default object directory (the result of
calling `get_object_directory()`) before handing off to
`cmd_multi_pack_index_write()`. But there is no repository to
initialize, and so calling `get_object_directory()` results in a BUG()
(indicating that the current repository is not initialized).
Another case where this doesn't quite work as expected is when operating
in a SHA-256 repository. To see the failure, try this in your shell:
git init --object-format=sha256 repo
git -C repo commit --allow-empty base
git -C repo repack -d
git multi-pack-index --object-dir=$(pwd)/repo/.git/objects write
and observe that we cannot open the `.idx` file in "repo", because the
outermost process assumes that any repository that it works in also uses
the default value of `the_hash_algo` (at the time of writing, SHA-1).
There may be compelling reasons for trying to work around these bugs,
but working in arbitrary `--object-dir`'s is non-standard enough (and
likewise, these bugs prevalent enough) that I don't think any workflows
would be broken by abandoning this behavior.
Accordingly, restrict the `multi-pack-index` builtin to only work when
inside of a Git repository (i.e., its main utility becomes selecting
which alternate to operate in), which avoids both of the bugs above.
(Note that you can still trigger a bug when writing a MIDX in an
alternate which does not use the same object format as the repository
which it is an alternate of, but that is an unrelated bug to this one).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the technical documentation to describe the multi-pack bitmap
format. This patch merely introduces the new format, and describes its
high-level ideas. Git does not yet know how to read nor write these
multi-pack variants, and so the subsequent patches will:
- Introduce code to interpret multi-pack bitmaps, according to this
document.
- Then, introduce code to write multi-pack bitmaps from the 'git
multi-pack-index write' sub-command.
Finally, the implementation will gain tests in subsequent patches (as
opposed to inline with the patch teaching Git how to write multi-pack
bitmaps) to avoid a cyclic dependency.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When writing a new bitmap, the bitmap writer code attempts to read the
existing bitmap (if one is present). This is done in order to quickly
permute the bits of any bitmaps for commits which appear in the existing
bitmap, and were also selected for the new bitmap.
But since this code was added in 341fa34887 (pack-bitmap-write: use
existing bitmaps, 2020-12-08), the resources associated with opening an
existing bitmap were never released.
It's fine to ignore this, but it's bad hygiene. It will also cause a
problem for the multi-pack-index builtin, which will be responsible not
only for writing bitmaps, but also for expiring any old multi-pack
bitmaps.
If an existing bitmap was reused here, it will also be expired. That
will cause a problem on platforms which require file resources to be
closed before unlinking them, like Windows. Avoid this by ensuring we
close reused bitmaps with free_bitmap_index() before removing them.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The set of objects covered by a bitmap must be closed under
reachability, since it must be the case that there is a valid bit
position assigned for every possible reachable object (otherwise the
bitmaps would be incomplete).
Pack bitmaps are never written from 'git repack' unless repacking
all-into-one, and so we never write non-closed bitmaps (except in the
case of partial clones where we aren't guaranteed to have all objects).
But multi-pack bitmaps change this, since it isn't known whether the
set of objects in the MIDX is closed under reachability until walking
them. Plumb through a bit that is set when a reachable object isn't
found.
As soon as a reachable object isn't found in the set of objects to
include in the bitmap, bitmap_writer_build() knows that the set is not
closed, and so it now fails gracefully.
A test is added in t0410 to trigger a bitmap write without full
reachability closure by removing local copies of some reachable objects
from a promisor remote.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The special `--test-bitmap` mode of `git rev-list` is used to compare
the result of an object traversal with a bitmap to check its integrity.
This mode does not, however, assert that the types of reachable objects
are stored correctly.
Harden this mode by teaching it to also check that each time an object's
bit is marked, the corresponding bit should be set in exactly one of the
type bitmaps (whose type matches the object's true type).
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Codepath to access recently added oidtree data structure had
to make unaligned accesses to oids, which has been corrected.
* rs/oidtree-alignment-fix:
oidtree: avoid unaligned access to crit-bit tree
Also fixed some typos reported by "git-po-helper".
Signed-off-by: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
The flexible array member "k" of struct cb_node is used to store the key
of the crit-bit tree node. It offers no alignment guarantees -- in fact
the current struct layout puts it one byte after a 4-byte aligned
address, i.e. guaranteed to be misaligned.
oidtree uses a struct object_id as cb_node key. Since cf0983213c (hash:
add an algo member to struct object_id, 2021-04-26) it requires 4-byte
alignment. The mismatch is reported by UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer at
runtime like this:
hash.h:277:2: runtime error: member access within misaligned address 0x00015000802d for type 'struct object_id', which requires 4 byte alignment
0x00015000802d: note: pointer points here
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
^
SUMMARY: UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer: undefined-behavior hash.h:277:2 in
We can fix that by:
1. eliminating the alignment requirement of struct object_id,
2. providing the alignment in struct cb_node, or
3. avoiding the issue by only using memcpy to access "k".
Currently we only store one of two values in "algo" in struct object_id.
We could use a uint8_t for that instead and widen it only once we add
support for our twohundredth algorithm or so. That would not only avoid
alignment issues, but also reduce the memory requirements for each
instance of struct object_id by ca. 9%.
Supporting keys with alignment requirements might be useful to spread
the use of crit-bit trees. It can be achieved by using a wider type for
"k" (e.g. uintmax_t), using different types for the members "byte" and
"otherbits" (e.g. uint16_t or uint32_t for each), or by avoiding the use
of flexible arrays like khash.h does.
This patch implements the third option, though, because it has the least
potential for causing side-effects and we're close to the next release.
If one of the other options is implemented later as well to get their
additional benefits we can get rid of the extra copies introduced here.
Reported-by: Andrzej Hunt <andrzej@ahunt.org>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Translate 48 new messages (5230t0f0u) for git 2.33.0, and also fixed
typos found by "git-po-helper".
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fangyi Zhou <me@fangyi.io>
Format README.md using GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) syntax.
- In order to use more than 3 level headings, use ATX style headings
instead of setext style headings.
- In order to add highlights for code blocks, use fenced code blocks
instead of indented code blocks.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Taylor Blau