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7575db522e Remove 100s of CPU time (10%) from build times (1465s -> 1302s)
I saw that boost/lexical_cast was costing about 100s in CPU time on our
compiles. We can fix this trivially by doing explicit template
instantiation in exactly one place and eliminating all other includes of
it, which is a code improvement anyway by hiding the boost.

Before:
```
lix/lix2 » ClangBuildAnalyzer --analyze buildtimeold.bin
Analyzing build trace from 'buildtimeold.bin'...
**** Time summary:
Compilation (551 times):
  Parsing (frontend):         1465.3 s
  Codegen & opts (backend):   1110.9 s

<snip>

**** Expensive headers:
178153 ms: ../src/libcmd/installable-value.hh (included 52 times, avg 3426 ms), included via:
  40x: command.hh
  5x: command-installable-value.hh
  3x: installable-flake.hh
  2x: <direct include>
  2x: installable-attr-path.hh

176217 ms: ../src/libutil/error.hh (included 246 times, avg 716 ms), included via:
  36x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh derived-path.hh config.hh experimental-features.hh
  12x: globals.hh config.hh experimental-features.hh
  11x: file-system.hh file-descriptor.hh
  6x: serialise.hh strings.hh
  6x: <direct include>
  6x: archive.hh serialise.hh strings.hh
  ...

173243 ms: ../src/libstore/store-api.hh (included 152 times, avg 1139 ms), included via:
  55x: <direct include>
  39x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh
  7x: libexpr.hh
  4x: local-store.hh
  4x: command-installable-value.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh
  3x: binary-cache-store.hh
  ...

170482 ms: ../src/libutil/serialise.hh (included 201 times, avg 848 ms), included via:
  37x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh built-path.hh realisation.hh hash.hh
  14x: store-api.hh nar-info.hh hash.hh
  11x: <direct include>
  7x: primops.hh eval.hh attr-set.hh nixexpr.hh value.hh source-path.hh archive.hh
  7x: libexpr.hh value.hh source-path.hh archive.hh
  6x: fetchers.hh hash.hh
  ...

169397 ms: ../src/libcmd/installables.hh (included 53 times, avg 3196 ms), included via:
  40x: command.hh installable-value.hh
  5x: command-installable-value.hh installable-value.hh
  3x: installable-flake.hh installable-value.hh
  2x: <direct include>
  1x: installable-derived-path.hh
  1x: installable-value.hh
  ...

159740 ms: ../src/libutil/strings.hh (included 221 times, avg 722 ms), included via:
  37x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh built-path.hh realisation.hh hash.hh serialise.hh
  19x: <direct include>
  14x: store-api.hh nar-info.hh hash.hh serialise.hh
  11x: serialise.hh
  7x: primops.hh eval.hh attr-set.hh nixexpr.hh value.hh source-path.hh archive.hh serialise.hh
  7x: libexpr.hh value.hh source-path.hh archive.hh serialise.hh
  ...

156796 ms: ../src/libcmd/command.hh (included 51 times, avg 3074 ms), included via:
  42x: <direct include>
  7x: command-installable-value.hh
  2x: installable-attr-path.hh

150392 ms: ../src/libutil/types.hh (included 251 times, avg 599 ms), included via:
  36x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh path.hh
  11x: file-system.hh
  10x: globals.hh
  6x: fetchers.hh
  6x: serialise.hh strings.hh error.hh
  5x: archive.hh
  ...

133101 ms: /nix/store/644b90j1vms44nr18yw3520pzkrg4dd1-boost-1.81.0-dev/include/boost/lexical_cast.hpp (included 226 times, avg 588 ms), included via
:
  37x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh built-path.hh realisation.hh hash.hh serialise.hh strings.hh
  19x: file-system.hh
  11x: store-api.hh nar-info.hh hash.hh serialise.hh strings.hh
  7x: primops.hh eval.hh attr-set.hh nixexpr.hh value.hh source-path.hh archive.hh serialise.hh strings.hh
  7x: libexpr.hh value.hh source-path.hh archive.hh serialise.hh strings.hh
  6x: eval.hh attr-set.hh nixexpr.hh value.hh source-path.hh archive.hh serialise.hh strings.hh
  ...

132887 ms: /nix/store/h2abv2l8irqj942i5rq9wbrj42kbsh5y-gcc-12.3.0/include/c++/12.3.0/memory (included 262 times, avg 507 ms), included via:
  36x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh path.hh types.hh ref.hh
  16x: gtest.h
  11x: file-system.hh types.hh ref.hh
  10x: globals.hh types.hh ref.hh
  10x: json.hpp
  6x: serialise.hh
  ...

  done in 0.6s.
```

After:
```
lix/lix2 » maintainers/buildtime_report.sh build
Processing all files and saving to '/home/jade/lix/lix2/maintainers/../buildtime.bin'...
  done in 0.6s. Run 'ClangBuildAnalyzer --analyze /home/jade/lix/lix2/maintainers/../buildtime.bin' to analyze it.
Analyzing build trace from '/home/jade/lix/lix2/maintainers/../buildtime.bin'...
**** Time summary:
Compilation (551 times):
  Parsing (frontend):         1302.1 s
  Codegen & opts (backend):    956.3 s

<snip>

**** Expensive headers:
178145 ms: ../src/libutil/error.hh (included 246 times, avg 724 ms), included via:
  36x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh derived-path.hh config.hh experimental-features.hh
  12x: globals.hh config.hh experimental-features.hh
  11x: file-system.hh file-descriptor.hh
  6x: <direct include>
  6x: serialise.hh strings.hh
  6x: fetchers.hh hash.hh serialise.hh strings.hh
  ...

154043 ms: ../src/libcmd/installable-value.hh (included 52 times, avg 2962 ms), included via:
  40x: command.hh
  5x: command-installable-value.hh
  3x: installable-flake.hh
  2x: <direct include>
  2x: installable-attr-path.hh

153593 ms: ../src/libstore/store-api.hh (included 152 times, avg 1010 ms), included via:
  55x: <direct include>
  39x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh
  7x: libexpr.hh
  4x: local-store.hh
  4x: command-installable-value.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh
  3x: binary-cache-store.hh
  ...

149948 ms: ../src/libutil/types.hh (included 251 times, avg 597 ms), included via:
  36x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh path.hh
  11x: file-system.hh
  10x: globals.hh
  6x: fetchers.hh
  6x: serialise.hh strings.hh error.hh
  5x: archive.hh
  ...

144560 ms: ../src/libcmd/installables.hh (included 53 times, avg 2727 ms), included via:
  40x: command.hh installable-value.hh
  5x: command-installable-value.hh installable-value.hh
  3x: installable-flake.hh installable-value.hh
  2x: <direct include>
  1x: installable-value.hh
  1x: installable-derived-path.hh
  ...

136585 ms: ../src/libcmd/command.hh (included 51 times, avg 2678 ms), included via:
  42x: <direct include>
  7x: command-installable-value.hh
  2x: installable-attr-path.hh

133394 ms: /nix/store/h2abv2l8irqj942i5rq9wbrj42kbsh5y-gcc-12.3.0/include/c++/12.3.0/memory (included 262 times, avg 509 ms), included via:
  36x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh path.hh types.hh ref.hh
  16x: gtest.h
  11x: file-system.hh types.hh ref.hh
  10x: globals.hh types.hh ref.hh
  10x: json.hpp
  6x: serialise.hh
  ...

89315 ms: ../src/libstore/derived-path.hh (included 178 times, avg 501 ms), included via:
  37x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh
  25x: store-api.hh realisation.hh
  7x: primops.hh eval.hh attr-set.hh nixexpr.hh value.hh context.hh
  6x: eval.hh attr-set.hh nixexpr.hh value.hh context.hh
  6x: libexpr.hh value.hh context.hh
  6x: shared.hh
  ...

87347 ms: /nix/store/h2abv2l8irqj942i5rq9wbrj42kbsh5y-gcc-12.3.0/include/c++/12.3.0/ostream (included 273 times, avg 319 ms), included via:
  35x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh path.hh types.hh ref.hh memory unique_ptr.h
  12x: regex sstream istream
  10x: file-system.hh types.hh ref.hh memory unique_ptr.h
  10x: gtest.h memory unique_ptr.h
  10x: globals.hh types.hh ref.hh memory unique_ptr.h
  6x: fetchers.hh types.hh ref.hh memory unique_ptr.h
  ...

85249 ms: ../src/libutil/config.hh (included 213 times, avg 400 ms), included via:
  37x: command.hh installable-value.hh installables.hh derived-path.hh
  20x: globals.hh
  20x: logging.hh
  16x: store-api.hh logging.hh
  6x: <direct include>
  6x: eval.hh attr-set.hh nixexpr.hh value.hh context.hh derived-path.hh
  ...

  done in 0.5s.
```

Change-Id: I27f0a2d566db17832cd9be935f12efe7f95b92d0
2024-05-29 22:16:15 -07:00
a39ba22ff7 util.hh: Delete remaining file and clean up headers
Change-Id: Ic1f68e6af658e94ef7922841dd3ad4c69551ef56
2024-05-29 12:38:51 +02:00
8b6d2d3915 util.{hh,cc}: Split out namespaces.{hh,cc}
Change-Id: I8fd3f3b50c15ede29d489066b4e8d99c2c4636a6
2024-05-29 11:41:16 +02:00
5b5a75979a util.{hh,cc}: Split out unix-domain-socket.{hh,cc}
Change-Id: I3f9a628e0f8998b6146f5caa8ae9842361a66b8b
2024-05-29 11:01:34 +02:00
2473e1253d util.{hh,cc}: Split out current-process.{hh,cc}
Change-Id: I77095b9d37e85310075bada7a076ccd482c28e47
2024-05-29 11:01:34 +02:00
9a52e4688c util.{hh,cc}: Split out processes.{hh,cc}
Change-Id: I39280dc40ca3f7f9007bc6c898ffcf760e2238b7
2024-05-29 11:01:34 +02:00
5b4b216fac Merge "nix3-upgrade-nix: fix when there are differing pnames" into main 2024-05-25 02:20:24 +00:00
f3f68fcfac nix3-upgrade-nix: fix when there are differing pnames
Change-Id: I19c7e24a4d46137127e76b7bb133e0184d73d1b6
2024-05-25 01:50:32 +00:00
d0390b5cf2 nix3: always use the same verbosity default (info)
Change-Id: I3ab84cc583e3e8b1c05a8ae1a7a087204f513d03
2024-05-24 15:15:42 -06:00
1fe58bd8a7 nix cat/dump-path/key: stop progress bar before writeFull
These commands outputs data that may not end with a newline. This
causes problems when the progress bar redraws, as that completely
wipes the last line of output. As nix key generate-secret outputs
a single line of text with no output, it shows up entirely blank,
making it look like nothing happened.

Fixes: lix-project/lix#320
Change-Id: I5ac706d71d839b6dfa760b60a351414cd96297cf
2024-05-18 17:51:16 +00:00
54322f09d3 nix3-eval: don't elide top-level errors
Fixes #276.

Change-Id: I83e71beb5c35d6f3b10a4186caa5e52a2f95b510
2024-05-08 13:37:20 -06:00
b9be46fb31 remove the autoconf+Make buildsystem
We're not using it anymore. Any leftover bugs in the Meson buildsystem
are now just bugs.

Closes #249.

Change-Id: I0465a0c37ae819f94d40e7829f5bff046aa63d73
2024-05-07 17:04:30 -06:00
748d8310fa Fix the pages in the manual for Lix
This doesn't comprehensively fix everything outdated in the manual, or
make the manual greatly better, but it does note down where at least
jade noticed it was wrong, and it does fix all the instances of
referencing Nix to conform to the style guide to the best of our
ability.

A lot of things have been commented out for being wrong, and there are
three types of FIXME introduced:

- FIXME(Lix): generically Lix needs to fix it
- FIXME(Qyriad): re lix-project/lix#215
- FIXME(meson): docs got outdated by meson changes and need rewriting

I did fix a bunch of it that I could, but there could certainly be
mistakes and this is definitely just an incremental improvement.

Fixes: lix-project/lix#266
Change-Id: I5993c4603d7f026a887089fce77db08394362135
2024-05-05 16:11:01 -07:00
7ab076f21c point nix3-upgrade-nix to releases.lix.systems/manifest.nix
This file is currently manually managed, but will be automated along
with the rest of the release process.

Change-Id: I77839919549aaac73de582b2e563ce3ef914a8cb
2024-05-05 17:45:50 +00:00
f8617f9dc6 Merge "Rename nix show-config to nix config show" into main 2024-05-03 22:07:33 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
8458d98b27 Rename nix show-config to nix config show
Part of #7672

My main motivation is to be able to use `nix.checkConfig`[1]. This
doesn't work with Lix currently since the module uses `nix show-config`
if the Nix version is <2.20pre and `nix config show` otherwise. I think
this is the only instance where nixpkgs checks for which Nix commands
exist that affects us now, so I figured we could just perform the rename
here as well[2] and still provide the current version number[3].

I don't have a strong opinion on whether to deprecate `nix show-config`,
the warning is added there automatically.

(cherry picked from commit f300e11b056dea414d7d77bbc6e5a7dc5d9ddd41)

[1] https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options.html#opt-nix.checkConfig
[2] I should add that I don't use the "official" ways of installing Lix
    because using the flake directly and callPackaging it seemed to fit
    better into my workflow: I already have a little mess to make
    sure Hydra from the flake uses the correct pkgs.nix and I didn't
    want to complicate it further while keeping a single package-set I
    can build in CI. Don't get me wrong, I think such a module for a
    quick-start is very important, just giving context on why I bother
    in the first place :)
[3] When we go public, I think it's worth considering to add support in
    nixpkgs itself for Lix.

Change-Id: I47b4239b05cbeda3c370d2fa56ea768b768768ac
2024-05-03 16:26:16 +02:00
19645a4a64 Merge changes Id1a67156,I03f4c7c1,I146736bb,I3b1453cb into main
* changes:
  docs: clarify how ^ works for -E/-f installables
  docs: give translation examples from nix-build -E/-A to installables
  docs: clarify how the different kinds of installables are selected
  docs: guide to installables docs in installable commands' docs
2024-05-03 13:39:49 +00:00
e0911eef73 nix3-profile: make element names stable
Based off of commit 6268a45b650f563bae2360e0540920a2959bdd40

Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9656
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I0fcf069a8537c61ad6fc4eee1f3c193a708ea1c4
2024-05-02 12:59:15 -06:00
e98fc952a8 nix3-profile: remove indices
Based off of commit 3187bc9ac3dd193b9329ef68c73ac3cca794ed78

Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9656
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I8ac4a33314cd1cf9de95404c20f58e883460acc7
2024-05-02 12:02:28 -06:00
f88423813f nix3-profile: allow using human-readable names to select packages
These names are parsed from the URL provided for that package

Based off of commit 257b768436a0e8ab7887f9b790c5b92a7fe51ef5

Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8678
Co-authored-by: Felix Uhl <felix.uhl@outlook.com>
Change-Id: I76d5f9cfb11d3d2915b3dd1db21d7bb49e91f4fb
2024-05-02 12:02:28 -06:00
4942e4e2d2 docs: clarify how ^ works for -E/-f installables
We didn't even realize you *could* use this syntax with -E and -f, much
less that the attribute path could be *empty*.

Change-Id: Id1a6715609f3a76a5ce477bd43a7832effbbe07b
2024-04-29 08:53:43 -06:00
6abeea70e9 docs: give translation examples from nix-build -E/-A to installables
Change-Id: I03f4c7c1049063539a35ba500a07bb8f866d4cb7
2024-04-29 08:18:00 -06:00
bd2619868c docs: clarify how the different kinds of installables are selected
Change-Id: I146736bb97ebe035e04be69ce9fb60a557e38c6c
2024-04-29 08:18:00 -06:00
194ba8a02f docs: guide to installables docs in installable commands' docs
The installables syntax is not documented in any of the man pages or
docbook pages for any of those individual commands. And while these
commands really should at least peripherally individually document how
installables work, in the meantime we can at least direct people to the
right place.

This commit also clarifies the unexpected fact that `nix profile remove`
and `nix profile upgrade` do *not* take installables.

Change-Id: I3b1453cb197a613bbab639c66a466365c3592c6d
2024-04-29 08:06:05 -06:00
ee5a1b5a4c nix3-upgrade-nix: allow manually specifying new nix
This allows manually specifying a store path for the new Nix that
gets linked into Nix's profile.

Change-Id: Ib71711ffb466febf4a6892e3fdbda644e053770d
2024-04-29 01:19:21 +00:00
aae12f5848 fix nix upgrade-nix on new-style profiles
nix3-profile automatically migrates any profile its used on to its style
of profile -- the ones with manifest.json instead of manifest.nix. On
non-NixOS systems, Nix is conventionally installed to the profile at
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default, so if a user passed that to `--profile`
of `nix profile`, then it would break upgrade-nix from ever working
again, without recreating the profile.

This commit fixes that, and allows upgrade-nix to work on either kind of
profile.

Fixes #16.

Change-Id: I4c49b1beba93bb50e8f8a107edc451affe08c3f7
2024-04-29 01:19:21 +00:00
2bd57d4d36 refactor some nix-env and profile code to libcmd
Notably, ProfileManifest and ProfileElement are useful generic
profile management code, and nix profile is not the only place in the
codebase where profiles are relevant.

This commit is in preparation for fixing upgrade-nix's interaction with
new-style profiles.

Change-Id: Iefc8bbd34b4bc6012175cb3d6e6a8207973bc792
2024-04-29 01:19:21 +00:00
38442e3123 filetransfer: remove decompress request parameter
this is never read.

Change-Id: I4c46f140519843a21e452958900e81edd2f78be2
2024-04-25 01:33:08 +02:00
54bc1f1b98 "but doctor, I AM the untrusted store": nix doctor had wrong trustedness
This probably snuck in in a refactor using truthiness or so. The
trustedness flag was having the optional fullness checked, rather than
the actual contained trust level.

Also adds some tests.

```
m1@6876551b-255d-4cb0-af02-8a4f17b27e2e ~ % nix store ping
warning: 'nix store ping' is a deprecated alias for 'nix store info'
Store URL: daemon
Version: 2.20.4
Trusted: 0
m1@6876551b-255d-4cb0-af02-8a4f17b27e2e ~ % nix doctor
warning: 'doctor' is a deprecated alias for 'config check'
[PASS] PATH contains only one nix version.
[PASS] All profiles are gcroots.
[PASS] Client protocol matches store protocol.
[INFO] You are trusted by store uri: daemon
```

Fixes: lix-project/lix#232
Change-Id: I21576e2a0a755036edf8814133345987617ba3d0
2024-04-08 15:40:12 -07:00
5956f509b6 meson: install libexec binaries
Change-Id: I149892bf081e1569d7786f085e890bc3d2eb50e5
2024-03-30 14:34:22 +00:00
6646b80396 meson: add missing explicit dependency on nlohmann_json
Without this, the Meson setup won't bail out if nlohmann_json is
missing, leading to subpar DX (and maybe worse, but I'm not entirely
sure).

Change-Id: I5913111060226b540dcf003257c99a08e84da0de
2024-03-29 14:16:58 -04:00
edba570664 HOT SALE: 15% off your build times!
This was achieved by running maintainers/buildtime_report.sh on the
build directory of a meson build, then asking "why the heck is json
eating our build times", and strategically moving the json using bits
out of widely included headers.

It turns out that putting literally any metrics whatsoever into the
build had immediate and predictable results.

Results are 1382.5s frontend time -> 1175.4s frontend time, back end
time approximately invariant.

Related: lix-project/lix#159

Change-Id: I7edea95c8536203325c8bb4dae5f32d727a21b2d
2024-03-27 03:52:57 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
86881226b0 Merge pull request #8817 from iFreilicht/flake-update-lock-overhaul
Overhaul `nix flake update` and `nix flake lock` UX

(cherry picked from commit 12a0ae73dbb37becefa5a442eb4532ff0de9ce65)
Change-Id: Iff3b4f4235ebb1948ec612036b39ab29e4ca22b2
2024-03-25 17:36:24 -06:00
John Ericson
3d065192c0 Overhaul completions, redo #6693 (#8131)
As I complained in
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6784#issuecomment-1421777030 (a
comment on the wrong PR, sorry again!), #6693 introduced a second
completions mechanism to fix a bug. Having two completion mechanisms
isn't so nice.

As @thufschmitt also pointed out, it was a bummer to go from `FlakeRef`
to `std::string` when collecting flake refs. Now it is `FlakeRefs`
again.

The underlying issue that sought to work around was that completion of
arguments not at the end can still benefit from the information from
latter arguments.

To fix this better, we rip out that change and simply defer all
completion processing until after all the (regular, already-complete)
arguments have been passed.

In addition, I noticed the original completion logic used some global
variables. I do not like global variables, because even if they save
lines of code, they also obfuscate the architecture of the code.

I got rid of them  moved them to a new `RootArgs` class, which now has
`parseCmdline` instead of `Args`. The idea is that we have many argument
parsers from subcommands and what-not, but only one root args that owns
the other per actual parsing invocation. The state that was global is
now part of the root args instead.

This did, admittedly, add a bunch of new code. And I do feel bad about
that. So I went and added a lot of API docs to try to at least make the
current state of things clear to the next person.

--

This is needed for RFC 134 (tracking issue #7868). It was very hard to
modularize `Installable` parsing when there were two completion
arguments. I wouldn't go as far as to say it is *easy* now, but at least
it is less hard (and the completions test finally passed).

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Change-Id: If18cd5be78da4a70635e3fdcac6326dbfeea71a5
(cherry picked from commit 67eb37c1d0de28160cd25376e51d1ec1b1c8305b)
2024-03-25 15:30:36 +00:00
d3d7489571 Merge "Improve new CLI UX by supporting short -E flag for --expr" into main 2024-03-25 14:13:44 +00:00
185ecf1f45 Improve new CLI UX by supporting short -E flag for --expr
Change-Id: I55881c846da8416a92a14deedfa5bbbf09a122fb
2024-03-24 21:17:51 -06:00
b4d07656ff build: optionally build and install with meson
This commit adds several meson.build, which successfully build and
install Lix executables, libraries, and headers. Meson does not yet
build docs, Perl bindings, or run tests, which will be added in
following commits. As such, this commit does not remove the existing
build system, or make it the default, and also as such, this commit has
several FIXMEs and TODOs as notes for what should be done before the
existing autoconf + make buildsystem can be removed and Meson made the
default. This commit does not modify any source files.

A Meson-enabled build is also added as a Hydra job, and to
`nix flake check`.

Change-Id: I667c8685b13b7bab91e281053f807a11616ae3d4
2024-03-22 08:36:50 -06:00
4050245faa Merge changes I72c945ca,I2138bb4d,Ib96749f3 into main
* changes:
  Release notes for builtins.nixVersion change
  un-nixes ur lix, a little
  issue importer: list issues that are *not* closed when finding existing issues
2024-03-18 20:19:53 -06:00
30233d87f9 un-nixes ur lix, a little
I didn't really go attack the docs because we need to pull a bunch of
PRs. I went looking for strings in the code that called lix nix.

Change-Id: I2138bb4dd239096bc530946b281db7f875195b39
2024-03-18 18:20:24 -07:00
f38ae92a38 libutil: make AutoCloseFD a better resource
add a reset() method to close the wrapped fd instead of assigning magic
constants. also make the from-fd constructor explicit so you can't
accidentally assign the *wrong* magic constant, or even an unrelated
integer that also just happens to be an fd by pure chance.

Change-Id: I51311b0f6e040240886b5103d39d1794a6acc325
2024-03-18 15:42:52 -06:00
47a237f7ec Merge "Delete hasPrefix and hasSuffix from the codebase" into main 2024-03-18 12:01:39 -06:00
1f8b85786e libutil: remove vfork
vfork confers a large performance advantage over fork, measured locally
at 16µs per vfork agains 90µs per fork. however nix *almost always*
follows a vfork up with an execve-family call, melting the performance
advantage from 6x to only 15%. in most of those cases it's doing things
that are undefined behavior (like manipulating the heap, or even
throwing exceptions and trashing the parent process stack).

most notably the one place that could benefit from the vfork performance
improvement is linux derivation sandbox setup—which doesn't use vfork.

Change-Id: I2037b7384d5a4ca24da219a569e1b1f39531410e
2024-03-18 06:10:41 -06:00
61e21b2557 Delete hasPrefix and hasSuffix from the codebase
These now have equivalents in the standard lib in C++20. This change was
performed with a custom clang-tidy check which I will submit later.
Executed like so:

ninja -C build && run-clang-tidy -checks='-*,nix-*' -load=build/libnix-clang-tidy.so -p .. -fix ../tests | tee -a clang-tidy-result

Change-Id: I62679e315ff9e7ce72a40b91b79c3e9fc01b27e9
2024-03-17 20:17:19 -07:00
50c401b4c1 Merge "util.hh: split out signals stuff" into main 2024-03-11 11:14:24 -06:00
8be7030299 util.hh: split out signals stuff
Copies part of the changes of ac89bb064aeea85a62b82a6daf0ecca7190a28b7

Change-Id: I9ce601875cd6d4db5eb1132d7835c5bab9f126d8
2024-03-11 00:52:09 -07:00
6432bf9197 Merge "Print derivation paths in nix eval" into main 2024-03-10 16:12:32 -06:00
b221a14f0a Merge pull request #9925 from 9999years/fmt-cleanup
Cleanup `fmt.hh`

(cherry picked from commit 47a1dbb4b8e7913cbb9b4d604728b912e76e4ca0)
Change-Id: Id076a45cb39652f437fe3f8bda10c310a9894777
2024-03-09 07:00:13 -07:00
08252967a8 libexpr: Support structured error classes
While preparing PRs like #9753, I've had to change error messages in
dozens of code paths. It would be nice if instead of

    EvalError("expected 'boolean' but found '%1%'", showType(v))

we could write

    TypeError(v, "boolean")

or similar. Then, changing the error message could be a mechanical
refactor with the compiler pointing out places the constructor needs to
be changed, rather than the error-prone process of grepping through the
codebase. Structured errors would also help prevent the "same" error
from having multiple slightly different messages, and could be a first
step towards error codes / an error index.

This PR reworks the exception infrastructure in `libexpr` to
support exception types with different constructor signatures than
`BaseError`. Actually refactoring the exceptions to use structured data
will come in a future PR (this one is big enough already, as it has to
touch every exception in `libexpr`).

The core design is in `eval-error.hh`. Generally, errors like this:

    state.error("'%s' is not a string", getAttrPathStr())
      .debugThrow<TypeError>()

are transformed like this:

    state.error<TypeError>("'%s' is not a string", getAttrPathStr())
      .debugThrow()

The type annotation has moved from `ErrorBuilder::debugThrow` to
`EvalState::error`.

(cherry picked from commit c6a89c1a1659b31694c0fbcd21d78a6dd521c732)
Change-Id: Iced91ba4e00ca9e801518071fb43798936cbd05a
2024-03-09 04:47:05 -07:00
6ef9d8efba Print derivation paths in nix eval
`nix eval` forces values and prints derivations as attribute sets, so
commands that print derivations (e.g. `nix eval nixpkgs#bash`) will
infinitely loop and segfault.

Printing derivations as `.drv` paths makes `nix eval` complete as
expected. Further work is needed, but this is better than a segfault.

(cherry picked from commit 4910d74086a85876e093136a0e8ebc547b467af7)

Change-Id: I8e1cb39c05db812080759ec183ee7a131760e6ea
2024-03-08 23:46:16 -08:00
87e6ac5eb7 Merge pull request #9753 from 9999years/print-value-on-type-error
Print the value in `value is X while a Y is expected` error

(cherry picked from commit 5f72a97092da6af28a7d2b2a50d74e9d34fae7e1)
Change-Id: Idb4bc903ae59a0f5b6fb3b1da4d47970fe0a6efe
2024-03-09 00:05:41 -07:00