git/csum-file.h

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#ifndef CSUM_FILE_H
#define CSUM_FILE_H
#include "hash-ll.h"
#include "write-or-die.h"
struct progress;
/* A SHA1-protected file */
struct hashfile {
int fd;
int check_fd;
unsigned int offset;
git_hash_ctx ctx;
off_t total;
struct progress *tp;
const char *name;
compute a CRC32 for each object as stored in a pack The most important optimization for performance when repacking is the ability to reuse data from a previous pack as is and bypass any delta or even SHA1 computation by simply copying the raw data from one pack to another directly. The problem with this is that any data corruption within a copied object would go unnoticed and the new (repacked) pack would be self-consistent with its own checksum despite containing a corrupted object. This is a real issue that already happened at least once in the past. In some attempt to prevent this, we validate the copied data by inflating it and making sure no error is signaled by zlib. But this is still not perfect as a significant portion of a pack content is made of object headers and references to delta base objects which are not deflated and therefore not validated when repacking actually making the pack data reuse still not as safe as it could be. Of course a full SHA1 validation could be performed, but that implies full data inflating and delta replaying which is extremely costly, which cost the data reuse optimization was designed to avoid in the first place. So the best solution to this is simply to store a CRC32 of the raw pack data for each object in the pack index. This way any object in a pack can be validated before being copied as is in another pack, including header and any other non deflated data. Why CRC32 instead of a faster checksum like Adler32? Quoting Wikipedia: Jonathan Stone discovered in 2001 that Adler-32 has a weakness for very short messages. He wrote "Briefly, the problem is that, for very short packets, Adler32 is guaranteed to give poor coverage of the available bits. Don't take my word for it, ask Mark Adler. :-)" The problem is that sum A does not wrap for short messages. The maximum value of A for a 128-byte message is 32640, which is below the value 65521 used by the modulo operation. An extended explanation can be found in RFC 3309, which mandates the use of CRC32 instead of Adler-32 for SCTP, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol. In the context of a GIT pack, we have lots of small objects, especially deltas, which are likely to be quite small and in a size range for which Adler32 is dimed not to be sufficient. Another advantage of CRC32 is the possibility for recovery from certain types of small corruptions like single bit errors which are the most probable type of corruptions. OK what this patch does is to compute the CRC32 of each object written to a pack within pack-objects. It is not written to the index yet and it is obviously not validated when reusing pack data yet either. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-09 13:06:31 +08:00
int do_crc;
uint32_t crc32;
csum-file.h: increase hashfile buffer size The hashfile API uses a hard-coded buffer size of 8KB and has ever since it was introduced in c38138c (git-pack-objects: write the pack files with a SHA1 csum, 2005-06-26). It performs a similar function to the hashing buffers in read-cache.c, but that code was updated from 8KB to 128KB in f279894 (read-cache: make the index write buffer size 128K, 2021-02-18). The justification there was that do_write_index() improves from 1.02s to 0.72s. Since our end goal is to have the index writing code use the hashfile API, we need to unify this buffer size to avoid a performance regression. There is a buffer, 'check_buffer', that is used to verify the check_fd file descriptor. When this buffer increases to 128K to fit the data being flushed, it causes the stack to overflow the limits placed in the test suite. To avoid issues with stack size, move both 'buffer' and 'check_buffer' to be heap pointers within 'struct hashfile'. The 'check_buffer' member is left as NULL unless check_fd is set in hashfd_check(). Both buffers are cleared as part of finalize_hashfile() which also frees the full structure. Since these buffers are now on the heap, we can adjust their size based on the needs of the consumer. In particular, callers to hashfd_throughput() are expecting to report progress indicators as the buffer flushes. These callers would prefer the smaller 8k buffer to avoid large delays between updates, especially for users with slower networks. When the progress indicator is not used, the larger buffer is preferrable. By adding a new trace2 region in the chunk-format API, we can see that the writing portion of 'git multi-pack-index write' lowers from ~1.49s to ~1.47s on a Linux machine. These effects may be more pronounced or diminished on other filesystems. The end-to-end timing is too noisy to have a definitive change either way. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-19 02:32:46 +08:00
size_t buffer_len;
unsigned char *buffer;
unsigned char *check_buffer;
hashfile: allow skipping the hash function The hashfile API is useful for generating files that include a trailing hash of the file's contents up to that point. Using such a hash is helpful for verifying the file for corruption-at-rest, such as a faulty drive causing flipped bits. Git's index file includes this trailing hash, so it uses a 'struct hashfile' to handle the I/O to the file. This was very convenient to allow using the hashfile methods during these operations. However, hashing the file contents during write comes at a performance penalty. It's slower to hash the bytes on their way to the disk than without that step. This problem is made worse by the replacement of hardware-accelerated SHA1 computations with the software-based sha1dc computation. This write cost is significant, and the checksum capability is likely not worth that cost for such a short-lived file. The index is rewritten frequently and the only time the checksum is checked is during 'git fsck'. Thus, it would be helpful to allow a user to opt-out of the hash computation. We first need to allow Git to opt-out of the hash computation in the hashfile API. The buffered writes of the API are still helpful, so it makes sense to make the change here. Introduce a new 'skip_hash' option to 'struct hashfile'. When set, the update_fn and final_fn members of the_hash_algo are skipped. When finalizing the hashfile, the trailing hash is replaced with the null hash. This use of a trailing null hash would be desireable in either case, since we do not want to special case a file format to have a different length depending on whether it was hashed or not. When the final bytes of a file are all zero, we can infer that it was written without hashing, and thus that verification is not available as a check for file consistency. This also means that we could easily toggle hashing for any file format we desire. A version of this patch has existed in the microsoft/git fork since 2017 [1] (the linked commit was rebased in 2018, but the original dates back to January 2017). Here, the change to make the index use this fast path is delayed until a later change. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/git/commit/21fed2d91410f45d85279467f21d717a2db45201 Co-authored-by: Kevin Willford <kewillf@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <kewillf@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-01-07 00:31:53 +08:00
/**
* If non-zero, skip_hash indicates that we should
* not actually compute the hash for this hashfile and
* instead only use it as a buffered write.
*/
int skip_hash;
};
/* Checkpoint */
struct hashfile_checkpoint {
off_t offset;
git_hash_ctx ctx;
};
void hashfile_checkpoint(struct hashfile *, struct hashfile_checkpoint *);
int hashfile_truncate(struct hashfile *, struct hashfile_checkpoint *);
/* finalize_hashfile flags */
#define CSUM_CLOSE 1
#define CSUM_FSYNC 2
#define CSUM_HASH_IN_STREAM 4
struct hashfile *hashfd(int fd, const char *name);
struct hashfile *hashfd_check(const char *name);
struct hashfile *hashfd_throughput(int fd, const char *name, struct progress *tp);
int finalize_hashfile(struct hashfile *, unsigned char *, enum fsync_component, unsigned int);
void hashwrite(struct hashfile *, const void *, unsigned int);
void hashflush(struct hashfile *f);
void crc32_begin(struct hashfile *);
uint32_t crc32_end(struct hashfile *);
/* Verify checksum validity while reading. Returns non-zero on success. */
int hashfile_checksum_valid(const unsigned char *data, size_t len);
/*
* Returns the total number of bytes fed to the hashfile so far (including ones
* that have not been written out to the descriptor yet).
*/
static inline off_t hashfile_total(struct hashfile *f)
{
return f->total + f->offset;
}
static inline void hashwrite_u8(struct hashfile *f, uint8_t data)
{
hashwrite(f, &data, sizeof(data));
}
static inline void hashwrite_be32(struct hashfile *f, uint32_t data)
{
data = htonl(data);
hashwrite(f, &data, sizeof(data));
}
static inline size_t hashwrite_be64(struct hashfile *f, uint64_t data)
{
data = htonll(data);
hashwrite(f, &data, sizeof(data));
return sizeof(data);
}
#endif