RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.48.0-rc0

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Dec 20, 2024, 19:23 UTC
Message-ID: <015501db5314$b61ac2a0$225047e0$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <Z2UX2v8sc-DELaVm@pks.im>

On December 20, 2024 2:08 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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>On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 03:46:20PM -0500, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
>> On December 18, 2024 11:07 AM, I wrote:
>> >All tests, actually.
>> >
>> >$ GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=true sh
>> >t0000- basic.sh --verbose -i -x
>> >error: reftable: transaction prepare: out of memory
>> >error: cannot run git init
>>
>> Any updates or hypothesis on this? Our test system has loads of memory
>> - I cannot figure out where the allocation failure takes place. There
>> is a limit to how much memory can be allocated, but it is very high
>> and our virtual memory is extensive, but this is a 32-bit build.
>
>My hypothesis is that this is caused by ps/reftable-alloc-failures, but I

am unable to

>tell where exactly the error comes from. So I'm dependent on your input.
>
>Could you please bisect the error? Finding out where the error is raised

would also

>be quite helpful. It has to be one of the reftable functions that returns
>REFTABLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY_ERROR, but other than that I do not have any more
>gut feeling right now.

This is what bisect shows:

git bisect start # status: waiting for both good and bad commits # good: [777489f9e09c8d0dd6b12f9d90de6376330577a2] Git 2.47 git bisect good 777489f9e09c8d0dd6b12f9d90de6376330577a2 # status: waiting for bad commit, 1 good commit known # bad: [063bcebf0c917140ca0e705cbe0fdea127e90086] Git 2.48-rc0

git bisect bad 063bcebf0c917140ca0e705cbe0fdea127e90086 # bad: [2037ca85ad93ec905b46543df6df4080f6ca258b] worktree: refactor `repair_worktree_after_gitdir_move()` git bisect bad 2037ca85ad93ec905b46543df6df4080f6ca258b # bad: [6a11438f43469f3815f2f0fc997bd45792ff04c0] The fifth batch git bisect bad 6a11438f43469f3815f2f0fc997bd45792ff04c0 # bad: [f004467b042d735a2fe8bd5706b053b04b1aec65] Merge branch 'jh/config-unset-doc-fix' git bisect bad f004467b042d735a2fe8bd5706b053b04b1aec65 # bad: [e29296745dc92fb03f8f60111b458adc69ff84c5] Merge branch 'sk/doc-maintenance-schedule' git bisect bad e29296745dc92fb03f8f60111b458adc69ff84c5 # bad: [5b67cc6477ce88c499caab5ebcebd492ec78932d] reftable/stack: handle allocation failures in auto compaction git bisect bad 5b67cc6477ce88c499caab5ebcebd492ec78932d # good: [31f5b972e0231d4211987775dd58e67815734989] reftable/record: handle allocation failures when decoding records git bisect good 31f5b972e0231d4211987775dd58e67815734989 # bad: [18da60029319733e2d931f2758a8e47b8b25b117] reftable/reader: handle allocation failures for unindexed reader git bisect bad 18da60029319733e2d931f2758a8e47b8b25b117 # good: [74d1c18757d1a45b95e46836adf478193a34c42c] reftable/writer: handle allocation failures in `reftable_new_writer()` git bisect good 74d1c18757d1a45b95e46836adf478193a34c42c

--Randall