From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <kewillf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@xxxxxxxxxx> --- csum-file.c | 14 +++++++++++--- csum-file.h | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/csum-file.c b/csum-file.c index 59ef3398ca2..cce13c0f047 100644 --- a/csum-file.c +++ b/csum-file.c @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ void hashflush(struct hashfile *f) unsigned offset = f->offset; if (offset) { - the_hash_algo->update_fn(&f->ctx, f->buffer, offset); + if (!f->skip_hash) + the_hash_algo->update_fn(&f->ctx, f->buffer, offset); flush(f, f->buffer, offset); f->offset = 0; } @@ -64,7 +65,12 @@ int finalize_hashfile(struct hashfile *f, unsigned char *result, int fd; hashflush(f); - the_hash_algo->final_fn(f->buffer, &f->ctx); + + if (f->skip_hash) + hashclr(f->buffer); + else + the_hash_algo->final_fn(f->buffer, &f->ctx); + if (result) hashcpy(result, f->buffer); if (flags & CSUM_HASH_IN_STREAM) @@ -108,7 +114,8 @@ void hashwrite(struct hashfile *f, const void *buf, unsigned int count) * the hashfile's buffer. In this block, * f->offset is necessarily zero. */ - the_hash_algo->update_fn(&f->ctx, buf, nr); + if (!f->skip_hash) + the_hash_algo->update_fn(&f->ctx, buf, nr); flush(f, buf, nr); } else { /* @@ -153,6 +160,7 @@ static struct hashfile *hashfd_internal(int fd, const char *name, f->tp = tp; f->name = name; f->do_crc = 0; + f->skip_hash = 0; the_hash_algo->init_fn(&f->ctx); f->buffer_len = buffer_len; diff --git a/csum-file.h b/csum-file.h index 0d29f528fbc..29468067f81 100644 --- a/csum-file.h +++ b/csum-file.h @@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ struct hashfile { size_t buffer_len; unsigned char *buffer; unsigned char *check_buffer; + + /** + * If set to 1, skip_hash indicates that we should + * not actually compute the hash for this hashfile and + * instead only use it as a buffered write. + */ + unsigned int skip_hash; }; /* Checkpoint */ -- gitgitgadget
