> Put a space before opening parentheses only after control statement
> keywords (for/if/while...) except this option doesn’t apply to ForEach
> and If macros. This is useful in projects where ForEach/If macros are
> treated as function calls instead of control statements.
The beauty and horrors of the C - the compiler properly detects variable
shadowing, but you can freely shadow a standard function 'free()' with
variable called 'free'. And if you reference 'free()' just as 'free'
you get the function pointer which means you can do also pointer
arithmetics, so 'free > 0' is always valid even when you delete the
local variable.
Replace the local variables 'free' with a name that doesn't shadow the
'free()' function to prevent future hard to detect bugs.
For now we only allow DNS_DB_NSEC_* values so it makes sense to change
the type to an enum.
Rename 'denial' to the more intuitive 'space', indicating the namespace
of the keyvalue pair.
In preparation to merge the three qp tries (tree, nsec, nsec3) into
one, add the piece of information into the qpkey. This is the most
significant bit of information, so prepend the denial type to the qpkey.
This means we need to pass on the denial type when constructing the
qpkey from a name, or doing a lookup.
Reuse the the DNS_DB_NSEC_* values. Most qp tries in the code we just
pass on 0 (nta, rpz, zt, etc.), because there is no need for denial of
existence, but for qpzone and qpcache we must pass the right value.
Change the code, so that node->nsec no longer can have the value
DNS_DB_NSEC_HAS_NSEC, instead track this in a new attribute 'havensec'.
Since we use node->nsec to convert names to keys, the value MUST be set
before inserting the node into the qp-trie.
Update the fuzzing and unit tests accordingly. This only adds a few
extra test cases, more are needed.
In the qp_test.c we can remove test code for empty keys as this is
no longer possible.
the pattern `for (x = ISC_LIST_HEAD(...); x != NULL; ISC_LIST_NEXT(...)`
has been changed to `ISC_LIST_FOREACH` throughout BIND, except in a few
cases where the change would be excessively complex.
in most cases this was a straightforward change. in some places,
however, the list element variable was referenced after the loop
ended, and the code was refactored to avoid this necessity.
also, because `ISC_LIST_FOREACH` uses typeof(list.head) to declare
the list elements, compilation failures can occur if the list object
has a `const` qualifier. some `const` qualifiers have been removed
from function parameters to avoid this problem, and where that was not
possible, `UNCONST` was used.
- make iterators reversible: refactor dns_qpiter_next() and add a new
dns_qpiter_prev() function to support iterating both forwards and
backwards through a QP trie.
- added a 'name' parameter to dns_qpiter_next() (as well as _prev())
to make it easier to retrieve the nodename while iterating, without
having to construct it from pointer value data.
- the helper functions for accessing twigs beneath a branch
(branch_twig_pos(), branch_twig_ptr(), etc) were somewhat confusing
to read, since several of them were implemented by calling other
helper functions. they now all show what they're really doing.
- branch_twigs_vector() has been renamed to simply branch_twigs().
- revised some unrelated comments in qp_p.h for clarity.
add a 'foundname' parameter to dns_qp_findname_ancestor(),
and use it to set the found name in dns_nametree.
this required adding a dns_qpkey_toname() function; that was
done by moving qp_test_keytoname() from the test library to qp.c.
added some more test cases and fixed bugs with the handling of
relative and empty names.
Move registration and deregistration of the main thread from
`isc_loopmgr_run()` into `isc__initialize()` / `isc__shutdown()`:
liburcu-qsbr fails an assertion if we try to use it from an
unregistered thread, and we need to be able to use it when the
event loops are not running.
Use `rcu_assign_pointer()` and `rcu_dereference()` in qp-trie
transactions so that they properly mark threads as online. The
RCU-protected pointer is no longer declared atomic because
liburcu does not (yet) use standard C atomics.
Fix the definition of `isc_qsbr_rcu_dereference()` to return
the referenced value, and to call the right function inside
liburcu.
Change the thread sanitizer suppressions to match any variant of
`rcu_*_barrier()`
The first working multi-threaded qp-trie was stuck with an unpleasant
trade-off:
* Use `isc_rwlock`, which has acceptable write performance, but
terrible read scalability because the qp-trie made all accesses
through a single lock.
* Use `liburcu`, which has great read scalability, but terrible
write performance, because I was relying on `rcu_synchronize()`
which is rather slow. And `liburcu` is LGPL.
To get the best of both worlds, we need our own scalable read side,
which we now have with `isc_qsbr`. And we need to modify the write
side so that it is not blocked by readers.
Better write performance requires an async cleanup function like
`call_rcu()`, instead of the blocking `rcu_synchronize()`. (There
is no blocking cleanup in `isc_qsbr`, because I have concluded
that it would be an attractive nuisance.)
Until now, all my multithreading qp-trie designs have been based
around two versions, read-only and mutable. This is too few to
work with asynchronous cleanup. The bare minimum (as in epoch
based reclamation) is three, but it makes more sense to support an
arbitrary number. Doing multi-version support "properly" makes
fewer assumptions about how safe memory reclamation works, and it
makes snapshots and rollbacks simpler.
To avoid making the memory management even more complicated, I
have introduced a new kind of "packed reader node" to anchor the
root of a version of the trie. This is simpler because it re-uses
the existing chunk lifetime logic - see the discussion under
"packed reader nodes" in `qp_p.h`.
I have also made the chunk lifetime logic simpler. The idea of a
"generation" is gone; instead, chunks are either mutable or
immutable. And the QSBR phase number is used to indicate when a
chunk can be reclaimed.
Instead of the `shared_base` flag (which was basically a one-bit
reference count, with a two version limit) the base array now has a
refcount, which replaces the confusing ad-hoc lifetime logic with
something more familiar and systematic.
This change adds a number of support routines for the unit tests, and
for benchmarks and fuzz tests to be added later. It isn't necessary to
include the support routines in libdns, since they are not needed by
BIND's installed programs. So `libtest` seems like the best place for
them.
The tests themselves verify that dns_qpkey_fromname() behaves as
expected.