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From: Han Xin <hanxin.hx@bytedance.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, xingxin.xx@bytedance.com,
	jonathantanmy@google.com, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] negotiator/skipping: fix some problems in mark_common()
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 19:55:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgqsWXU0ZCuQtCPA+O+g-36SkF7w2vsgPxS4iQ7gu5V+XCHhQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41273b5d-f4f8-2dce-94d1-37a9b56ed1ea@github.com>

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 7:09 PM Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/26/2023 12:05 AM, Han Xin wrote:
> > Fixed the following problems:
>
> This might be a good time to reference the change from recursive to
> iterative:
>
>   The mark_common() method in negotiator/skipping.c was converted
>   from recursive to iterative in 4654134976f (negotiator/skipping:
>   avoid stack overflow, 2022-10-25), but there is some more work
>   to do:
>

Make sense.

> >       while ((c = prio_queue_get(&queue))) {
> >               struct commit_list *p;
> >               if (c->object.flags & COMMON)
> > -                     return;
> > +                     continue;
> >               c->object.flags |= COMMON;
> >               if (!(c->object.flags & POPPED))
> >                       data->non_common_revs--;
> >
> >               if (!c->object.parsed)
> > -                     return;
> > +                     continue;
> >               for (p = c->parents; p; p = p->next) {
> > -                     if (p->item->object.flags & SEEN)
> > +                     if (p->item->object.flags & SEEN || p->item->object.flags & COMMON)
> >                               prio_queue_put(&queue, p->item);
>
> This is the incorrect check for the COMMON bit, because it is
> a positive check (we add the common bit after we pop a commit
> from the queue) _and_ because we could add a commit multiple
> times before it is first popped and that bit is added.
>

Yes, I introduced a silly thing.

> Instead, we need
>
>                         if ((p->item->object.flags & SEEN) &&
>                             !(p->item->object.flags & COMMON)) {
>                                 p->item->object.flags |= COMMON;
>                                 prio_queue_put(&queue, p->item);
>                         }
>
> and at the start of the loop we need to add the COMMON bit to
> the starting commit. We also need to remove this bit from the
> main section of the loop:
>
>                 if (c->object.flags & COMMON)
>                         continue;
>                 c->object.flags |= COMMON;
>
> because it does nothing if the COMMON bit is added before
> being added to the queue.
>

Make sense.
And with this, we should do return before loop:

                if (seen_commit->object.flags & COMMON)
                        return;

                prio_queue_put(&queue, seen_commit);
                while ((c = prio_queue_get(&queue))) {

> I'm very suspicious that this change did not trigger a test
> failure, since the behavior is quite different from the previous
> version. Of course, the recursive-to-iterative change was first
> to change the behavior, so I'm not surprised that it isn't caught
> by tests. What kind of tests can we introduce to harden our
> coverage here?
>

With "p->item->object.flags & COMMON", it takes more meaningless
walking, but doesn't seem to introduce any errors. I haven't found any
good way to avoid similar problems.

Thanks
-Han Xin

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-26 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-24  2:23 [PATCH v1] negotiator/default.c: avoid stack overflow Han Xin
2023-04-24 14:44 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-25  3:02   ` [External] " Han Xin
2023-04-25 13:34     ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-26  4:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] negotiator/default: " Han Xin
2023-04-26  4:05   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Han Xin
2023-04-26 11:13     ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-26 11:40       ` [External] " Han Xin
2023-04-26  4:05   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] negotiator/skipping: fix some problems in mark_common() Han Xin
2023-04-26 11:08     ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-26 11:55       ` Han Xin [this message]
2023-04-26 13:15   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] negotiator/default: avoid stack overflow Han Xin
2023-04-26 13:15     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Han Xin
2023-04-26 17:14       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 17:30         ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-26 17:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 13:15     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] negotiator/skipping: fix some problems in mark_common() Han Xin
2023-05-01 22:11     ` [PATCH v2 0/2] negotiator/default: avoid stack overflow Junio C Hamano
2023-05-02  1:49       ` Derrick Stolee
2023-05-02 15:51         ` Junio C Hamano

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