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Re: git fast-import crashing on big imports

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 18, 2017, 21:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20170118215120.6hle2uxgkcvvtlox@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20170118202704.w6pjxfvnge7utk34@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 03:27:04PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 09:20:07PM +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> 
> > I found your commit via bisect in case you were wondering. Thanks for
> > picking this up.
> 
> Still downloading. However, just looking at the code, the obvious
> culprit would be clear_delta_base_cache(), which is called from
> literally nowhere except fast-import, and then only when checkpointing.

Hmm. I haven't reproduced your exact issue, but I was able to produce some hijinks in that function.

The problem is that the hashmap_iter interface is unreliable if entries are added or removed from the map during the iteration.

I suspect the patch below may fix things for you. It works around it by walking over the lru list (either is fine, as they both contain all entries, and since we're clearing everything, we don't care about the order).

---
 sha1_file.c | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 1eb47f611..d20714d6b 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -2342,11 +2342,10 @@ static inline void release_delta_base_cache(struct delta_base_cache_entry *ent)
 
 void clear_delta_base_cache(void)
 {
-	struct hashmap_iter iter;
-	struct delta_base_cache_entry *entry;
-	for (entry = hashmap_iter_first(&delta_base_cache, &iter);
-	     entry;
-	     entry = hashmap_iter_next(&iter)) {
+	struct list_head *lru, *tmp;
+	list_for_each_safe(lru, tmp, &delta_base_cache_lru) {
+		struct delta_base_cache_entry *entry =
+			list_entry(lru, struct delta_base_cache_entry, lru);
 		release_delta_base_cache(entry);
 	}
 }
-- 
2.11.0.698.gd6b48ab4c




> 
> -Peff
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Message 6 of 9 in “git fast-import crashing on big imports”
  1. Ulrich SpörleinJan 12, 2017
  2. Ulrich SpoerleinJan 18, 2017
  3. Jeff KingJan 18, 2017
  4. Jeff KingJan 18, 2017
  5. Jeff KingJan 18, 2017
  6. Jeff KingJan 18, 2017
  7. Ulrich SpörleinJan 19, 2017
  8. clear_delta_base_cache(): don't modify hashmap while iteratingJeff King, Jan 19, 2017
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2017

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