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12 daysreftable/system: add abstraction to mmap filesPatrick Steinhardt
In our codebase we have a couple of wrappers around mmap(3p) that allow us to reimplement the syscall on platforms that don't have it natively, like for example Windows. Other projects that embed the reftable library may have a different infra though to hook up mmap wrappers, but these are currently hard to integrate. Provide the infrastructure to let projects easily define the mmap interface with a custom struct and custom functions. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-07reftable/block: rename `block` to `block_data`Patrick Steinhardt
The `reftable_block` structure associates a byte slice with a block source. As such it only holds the data of a reftable block without actually encoding any of the details for how to access that data. Rename the structure to instead be called `reftable_block_data`. Besides clarifying that this really only holds data, it also allows us to rename the `reftable_block_reader` to `reftable_block` in the next commit, as this is the structure that actually encapsulates access to the reftable blocks. Rename the `struct reftable_block_reader::block` member accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-07reftable/blocksource: consolidate code into a single filePatrick Steinhardt
The code that implements block sources is distributed across a couple of files. Consolidate all of it into "reftable/blocksource.c" and its accompanying header so that it is easier to locate and more self contained. While at it, rename some of the functions to have properly scoped names. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-07reftable: fix formatting of the license headerPatrick Steinhardt
The license headers used across the reftable library doesn't follow our typical coding style for multi-line comments. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-18reftable/basics: introduce `REFTABLE_UNUSED` annotationPatrick Steinhardt
Introduce the `REFTABLE_UNUSED` annotation and replace all existing users of `UNUSED` in the reftable library to use the new macro instead. Note that we unconditionally define `MAYBE_UNUSED` in the exact same way, so doing so unconditionally for `REFTABLE_UNUSED` should be fine, too. Suggested-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-18reftable/blocksource: stop using `xmmap()`Patrick Steinhardt
We use `xmmap()` to map reftables into memory. This function has two problems: - It causes us to die in case the mmap fails. - It ties us to the Git codebase. Refactor the code to use mmap(3p) instead with manual error checking. Note that this function may not be the system-provided mmap(3p), but may point to our `git_mmap()` wrapper that emulates the syscall on systems that do not have mmap(3p) available. Fix `reftable_block_source_from_file()` to properly bubble up the error code in case the map(3p) call fails. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-21reftable/blocksource: adjust `read_block()` to return `ssize_t`Patrick Steinhardt
The `block_source_read_block()` function and its implementations return an integer as a result that reflects either the number of bytes read, or an error. As such its return type, a signed integer, isn't wrong, but it doesn't give the reader a good hint what it actually returns. Refactor the function to return an `ssize_t` instead, which is typical for functions similar to read(3p) and should thus give readers a better signal what they can expect as a result. Adjust callers to better handle the returned value to avoid warnings with -Wsign-compare. One of these callers is `reader_get_block()`, whose return value is only ever used by its callers to figure out whether or not the read was successful. So instead of bubbling up the `ssize_t` there, too, we adapt it to only indicate success or errors. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-10-17reftable/blocksource: adapt interface namePatrick Steinhardt
Adapt the name of the `strbuf` block source to no longer relate to this interface, but instead to the `reftable_buf` interface. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2024-10-17reftable: convert from `strbuf` to `reftable_buf`Patrick Steinhardt
Convert the reftable library to use the `reftable_buf` interface instead of the `strbuf` interface. This is mostly a mechanical change via sed(1) with some manual fixes where functions for `strbuf` and `reftable_buf` differ. The converted code does not yet handle allocation failures. This will be handled in subsequent commits. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2024-10-02reftable/blocksource: handle allocation failuresPatrick Steinhardt
Handle allocation failures in the blocksource code. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-03Merge branch 'ps/reftable-concurrent-compaction'Junio C Hamano
The code path for compacting reftable files saw some bugfixes against concurrent operation. * ps/reftable-concurrent-compaction: reftable/stack: fix segfault when reload with reused readers fails reftable/stack: reorder swapping in the reloaded stack contents reftable/reader: keep readers alive during iteration reftable/reader: introduce refcounting reftable/stack: fix broken refnames in `write_n_ref_tables()` reftable/reader: inline `reader_close()` reftable/reader: inline `init_reader()` reftable/reader: rename `reftable_new_reader()` reftable/stack: inline `stack_compact_range_stats()` reftable/blocksource: drop malloc block source
2024-08-23reftable/blocksource: drop malloc block sourcePatrick Steinhardt
The reftable blocksource provides a generic interface to read blocks via different sources, e.g. from disk or from memory. One of the block sources is the malloc block source, which can in theory read data from memory. We nowadays also have a strbuf block source though, which provides essentially the same functionality with better ergonomics. Adapt the only remaining user of the malloc block source in our tests to use the strbuf block source, instead, and remove the now-unused malloc block source. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-17reftable: mark unused parameters in virtual functionsJeff King
The reftable code uses a lot of virtual function pointers, but many of the concrete implementations do not need all of the parameters. For the most part these are obviously fine to just mark as UNUSED (e.g., the empty_iterator functions unsurprisingly do not do anything). Here are a few cases where I dug a little deeper (but still ended up just marking them UNUSED): - the iterator exclude_patterns is best-effort and optional (though it would be nice to support in the long run as an optimization) - ignoring the ref_store in many transaction functions is unexpected, but works because the ref_transaction itself carries enough information to do what we need. - ignoring "err" for in some cases (e.g., transaction abort) is OK because we do not return any errors. It is a little odd for reftable_be_create_reflog(), though, since we do return errors there. We should perhaps be creating string error messages at this layer, but I've punted on that for now. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-06reftable: introduce macros to allocate arraysPatrick Steinhardt
Similar to the preceding commit, let's carry over macros to allocate arrays with `REFTABLE_ALLOC_ARRAY()` and `REFTABLE_CALLOC_ARRAY()`. This requires us to change the signature of `reftable_calloc()`, which only takes a single argument right now and thus puts the burden on the caller to calculate the final array's size. This is a net improvement though as it means that we can now provide proper overflow checks when multiplying the array size with the member size. Convert callsites of `reftable_calloc()` to the new signature and start using the new macros where possible. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-11reftable/blocksource: use mmap to read tablesPatrick Steinhardt
The blocksource interface provides an interface to read blocks from a reftable table. This interface is implemented using read(3P) calls on the underlying file descriptor. While this works alright, this pattern is very inefficient when repeatedly querying the reftable stack for one or more refs. This inefficiency can mostly be attributed to the fact that we often need to re-read the same blocks over and over again, and every single time we need to call read(3P) again. A natural fit in this context is to use mmap(3P) instead of read(3P), which has a bunch of benefits: - We do not need to come up with a caching strategy for some of the blocks as this will be handled by the kernel already. - We can avoid the overhead of having to call into the read(3P) syscall repeatedly. - We do not need to allocate returned blocks repeatedly, but can instead hand out pointers into the mmapped region directly. Using mmap comes with a significant drawback on Windows though, because mmapped files cannot be deleted and neither is it possible to rename files onto an mmapped file. But for one, the reftable library gracefully handles the case where auto-compaction cannot delete a still-open stack already and ignores any such errors. Also, `reftable_stack_clean()` will prune stale tables which are not referenced by "tables.list" anymore so that those files can eventually be pruned. And second, we never rewrite already-written stacks, so it does not matter that we cannot rename a file over an mmaped file, either. Another unfortunate property of mmap is that it is not supported by all systems. But given that the size of reftables should typically be rather limited (megabytes at most in the vast majority of repositories), we can use the fallback implementation provided by `git_mmap()` which reads the whole file into memory instead. This is the same strategy that the "packed" backend uses. While this change doesn't significantly improve performance in the case where we're seeking through stacks once (like e.g. git-for-each-ref(1) would). But it does speed up usecases where there is lots of random access to refs, e.g. when writing. The following benchmark demonstrates these savings with git-update-ref(1) creating N refs in an otherwise empty repository: Benchmark 1: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 1, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 5.1 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 2.5 ms, System: 2.5 ms] Range (min … max): 4.8 ms … 7.1 ms 111 runs Benchmark 2: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 14.8 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 7.1 ms, System: 7.5 ms] Range (min … max): 14.1 ms … 18.7 ms 84 runs Benchmark 3: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 926.4 ms ± 5.6 ms [User: 448.5 ms, System: 477.7 ms] Range (min … max): 920.0 ms … 936.1 ms 10 runs Benchmark 4: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 1, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 5.0 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 2.5 ms] Range (min … max): 4.7 ms … 5.4 ms 111 runs Benchmark 5: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 10.5 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 5.0 ms, System: 5.3 ms] Range (min … max): 10.0 ms … 10.9 ms 93 runs Benchmark 6: update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 529.6 ms ± 9.1 ms [User: 268.0 ms, System: 261.4 ms] Range (min … max): 522.4 ms … 547.1 ms 10 runs Summary update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 1, revision = HEAD) ran 1.01 ± 0.06 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 1, revision = HEAD~) 2.08 ± 0.07 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100, revision = HEAD) 2.95 ± 0.14 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 100, revision = HEAD~) 105.33 ± 3.76 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD) 184.24 ± 5.89 times faster than update-ref: create many refs (refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD~) Theoretically, we could also replicate the strategy of the "packed" backend where small tables are read into memory instead of using mmap. Benchmarks did not confirm that this has a performance benefit though. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-11reftable/blocksource: refactor code to match our coding stylePatrick Steinhardt
Refactor `reftable_block_source_from_file()` to match our coding style better. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-11reftable: handle interrupted readsPatrick Steinhardt
There are calls to pread(3P) and read(3P) where we don't properly handle interrupts. Convert them to use `pread_in_full()` and `read_in_full()`, respectively. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-04Merge branch 'cm/reftable-0-length-memset'Junio C Hamano
Code clean-up. * cm/reftable-0-length-memset: reftable: avoid undefined behaviour breaking t0032
2022-04-15reftable: avoid undefined behaviour breaking t0032Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
1214aa841bc (reftable: add blocksource, an abstraction for random access reads, 2021-10-07), makes the assumption that it is ok to free a reftable_block pointing to NULL if the size is also set to 0, but implements that using a memset call that at least in glibc based system will trigger a runtime exception if called with a NULL pointer as its first parameter. Avoid doing so by adding a conditional to check for the size in all three identically looking functions that were affected, and therefore, still allow memset to help catch callers that might incorrectly pass a NULL pointer with a non zero size, but avoiding the exception for the valid cases. Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-20reftable: fix resource leak blocksource.cHan-Wen Nienhuys
This would be triggered in the unlikely event of fstat() failing on an opened file. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-08reftable: add blocksource, an abstraction for random access readsHan-Wen Nienhuys
The reftable format is usually used with files for storage. However, we abstract away this using the blocksource data structure. This has two advantages: * log blocks are zlib compressed, and handling them is simplified if we can discard byte segments from within the block layer. * for unittests, it is useful to read and write in-memory. The blocksource allows us to abstract the data away from on-disk files. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>