#!/usr/bin/env bash # Shared helpers for the cargo-cache actions. Sourced, never executed # directly — every caller does: # # . "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/cache-lib.sh" # # Nothing here reads the environment implicitly; every function takes what it # needs as an argument, so the selftests can drive them against scratch # directories without a CI context. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Cache keys # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Maps a raw git ref to a filesystem-safe, collision-resistant directory # component. # # Two properties matter and neither is free: # # Determinism — the same raw ref must always produce the same key, or a # branch's second run lands in a different directory from its first and the # whole cache is pointless. # # Collision resistance — `tr -c 'A-Za-z0-9._-' '-'` maps every disallowed # byte to the same `-`, so `feat/foo` and `feat-foo` sanitise identically # and would share one directory: two unrelated branches interleaving # fingerprints in one tree, which is the exact cross-branch-contamination # hazard this whole scheme exists to close, reopened through the sanitiser. # An 8-hex-char prefix of the SHA-1 of the *raw* (pre-sanitisation) ref is # appended so distinct refs always get distinct keys regardless of what # sanitisation or truncation did to the readable part. # # The readable part is capped at 48 characters so a long branch name can't # approach filesystem path-length limits; the hash suffix is what keeps two # refs sharing a 48-char prefix apart. cache_key() { local raw="$1" slug hash if [ -z "$raw" ]; then echo "cache_key: refusing to key an empty ref" >&2 return 1 fi slug=$(printf '%s' "$raw" | tr -c 'A-Za-z0-9._-' '-' | sed 's/-\{2,\}/-/g; s/^-//; s/-$//') hash=$(printf '%s' "$raw" | sha1sum | cut -c1-8) printf '%s-%s' "${slug:0:48}" "$hash" } target_dir_for() { printf '%s/target-%s' "$1" "$2"; } snapshot_dir_for() { printf '%s/snapshot-%s' "$1" "$2"; } # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Disk accounting # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- usage_kb() { if [ -d "$1" ]; then du -sk "$1" 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $1}'; else echo 0; fi } usage_gb() { awk "BEGIN { printf \"%.1f\", $(usage_kb "$1") / 1024 / 1024 }" } # df -kP: portable POSIX one-line-per-fs output; columns are 1k-blocks total, # used, available, capacity%, mounted-on. Prints " ". # # CACHE_DF_OVERRIDE exists for the selftests: a scratch tmpdir on the test # host's real filesystem won't sit below an arbitrary threshold on demand, and # the eviction passes are precisely what needs testing under pressure. read_df() { if [ -n "${CACHE_DF_OVERRIDE:-}" ]; then printf '%s\n' "$CACHE_DF_OVERRIDE"; return; fi df -kP "$1" | awk 'NR==2 {print $2, $4}' } report_df() { local label="$1" free_kb="$2" total_kb="$3" awk -v l="$label" -v f="$free_kb" -v t="$total_kb" \ 'BEGIN { printf "%s %.1f GB free / %.0f GB (%.1f%%)", l, f/1048576, t/1048576, (f*100)/t }' } # Appends to the Actions job summary, which is read on green runs — unlike a # ::warning:: buried in a log nobody opens. No-op outside Actions so the # scripts still run standalone under the selftests. summary_line() { [ -n "${GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY:-}" ] && printf '%s\n' "$1" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY" return 0 } # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Hardlink cloning, and the part that makes it sound # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Cargo's own target-dir lock files (.cargo-lock, .cargo-build-lock, # .cargo-artifact-lock) are zero-byte files it opens and flock(2)s IN PLACE # for the duration of a build — it never truncates-and-renames them the way it # does real artifacts. `cp -al` leaves the clone's copy hardlinked to the same # inode as the source's, and flock() contention is inode-based, not # path-based, so a build in the clone and a build in the source would # serialize on one mutex. # # The glob deliberately reaches past the three observed names so a lock file # added by a future Cargo version is swept too; nothing else in a target dir # is named `.cargo-*lock*`. Cargo recreates whichever it needs as a fresh, # unshared inode the next time it opens the directory, at no cost. strip_cargo_locks() { find "$1" -type f -name '.cargo-*lock*' -delete 2>/dev/null || true return 0 } # Replaces a subtree with a real (non-hardlinked) copy of itself, in place. # # Staged through a sibling temp path and swapped with `mv -T` rather than # copied over the original file-by-file: the copy is a fresh tree of fresh # inodes, so nothing in it can alias the source it was cloned from. Callers # only ever run this against a staging directory nothing else can see yet # (see hardlink_clone_into's contract), so the brief window where the path is # absent is not observable. # # Returns non-zero if the copy or either rename failed. That status is # load-bearing: a failed unshare leaves the staging tree still aliasing its # source, which is the exact corruption `unshare_mutable_paths` exists to # prevent, so it must abort the clone rather than be swallowed. unshare_subtree() { local d="$1" tmp [ -d "$d" ] || return 0 tmp="${d}.unshare.$$" rm -rf "$tmp" cp -a "$d" "$tmp" || { rm -rf "$tmp"; return 1; } rm -rf "$d" || { rm -rf "$tmp"; return 1; } mv -T "$tmp" "$d" || return 1 return 0 } _unshare_files() { # `-links +1` restricts the work to files that are actually shared, which # makes this idempotent and near-free on an already-unshared tree. # # The inner shell propagates a failure of any individual copy-and-rename out # through xargs (which exits 123 if any invocation exits 1-125), so a # partially-unshared tree is reported rather than silently accepted. find "$@" -links +1 -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0 -r -n 64 bash -c 'rc=0; for f; do cp -p -- "$f" "$f.unshare.$$" && mv -f -- "$f.unshare.$$" "$f" || rc=1; done; exit $rc' _ } # THE load-bearing function of this whole design. # # A hardlink clone is only safe if every write the clone's build performs # lands on a NEW inode, leaving the source's data untouched. That is true for # compilation artifacts — rustc and the linker replace `deps/*.rlib`, # `*.rmeta`, and binaries rather than truncating them in place — and it is # NOT true for the metadata Cargo and build scripts write with a plain # truncating write. Measured directly (Linux, ext4, cargo 1.9x nightly: # `cp -al` a warm target dir, change a source file, build in the clone, diff # the source) the following files in the SOURCE were mutated through the # shared inode: # # /.fingerprint//dep- (only under # CARGO_UNSTABLE_CHECKSUM_FRESHNESS, # where this file carries the # per-source blake3 checksums) # /build//output, root-output (Cargo build-script metadata) # /build//out/** (whatever the build script # writes into OUT_DIR — build # scripts overwhelmingly use a # plain fs::write) # /deps/*.d, /*.d (Cargo's post-processed # dep-info) # # The checksum-freshness case is not a cosmetic one. Reproduced end to end: # branch B clones base's cache, builds its own content, and thereby rewrites # base's `dep-` to describe B's sources while base's cache still holds # the artifact built from base's sources. When B merges and base next builds, # Cargo reads that dep file, finds the checksums match the (now merged) # sources, reports `Fresh`, and reuses a binary built from the PRE-merge code. # That is silent stale-artifact reuse — a wrong answer, not a slow one. # # So: hardlink the artifacts (the GB), real-copy the metadata (the MB). # Measured on a 6.9 GB Bevy workspace target dir, the unshared set is # .fingerprint 22 MB + build/ 237 MB + a handful of dep-info files — about # 3.7% of the tree, against 100% for a plain `cp -a`. # # `incremental/` is deliberately left shared: rustc writes each incremental # session to a fresh `s-*-working` directory and finalises it with a rename, # and garbage-collects old sessions by unlinking directory entries — neither # of which mutates a shared inode. CI should still set CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0, # for size rather than correctness. unshare_mutable_paths() { local root="$1" d [ -d "$root" ] || return 0 # The list is materialised in full before anything is replaced: each # replacement deletes and recreates a directory, and a live `find` walk over # a tree being mutated underneath it is a needless hazard. `-prune` keeps a # match's own contents out of the list. local -a dirs=() mapfile -t dirs < <(find "$root" -type d \( -name .fingerprint -o -name build \) -prune -print 2>/dev/null) for d in "${dirs[@]}"; do [ -n "$d" ] || continue unshare_subtree "$d" || { echo "::error::unshare_mutable_paths: failed to unshare ${d}" >&2 return 1 } done _unshare_files "$root" -type f -name '*.d' || { echo "::error::unshare_mutable_paths: failed to unshare dep-info files under ${root}" >&2 return 1 } _unshare_files "$root" -maxdepth 3 -type f -name '.rustc_info.json' || { echo "::error::unshare_mutable_paths: failed to unshare .rustc_info.json under ${root}" >&2 return 1 } return 0 } # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Reader markers: the consume side's half of the seed-vs-republish interlock # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # A hardlink clone reads its source over many seconds. The publish side # rotates a snapshot with two renames and then unlinks the generation it # rotated away — and unlinking entries out from under an in-flight directory # walk is what produces a SILENTLY truncated clone: `cp -al` reports the # entries it manages to stat, and simply never sees a subdirectory that was # unlinked before it read the parent's listing. Exit status alone does not # catch that case. # # So the two sides interlock through a marker file, and the ordering is what # makes it sound rather than probabilistic: # # Consumer: create .reading-- -> stat -> cp -al # Publisher: mv aside -> mv new into place -> scan for markers # -> unlink the rotated-away generation # # If a consumer's `stat` resolved to the OLD generation, that stat happened # before the publisher's first rename, so its marker — created strictly # earlier still — was already on disk before the publisher's scan, which # happens strictly after that rename. The publisher therefore cannot miss it. # A consumer that creates its marker after the scan necessarily resolves the # path to the NEW generation, which is not the one being unlinked. # # The wait is bounded (CACHE_READ_GRACE_SECONDS). Exceeding it does not force # the unlink: reclamation of that generation is DEFERRED to a later publish # instead. The residual is therefore disk, not correctness. CACHE_READ_GRACE_SECONDS="${CACHE_READ_GRACE_SECONDS:-300}" # A marker older than this belongs to a job the runner killed before it could # clean up. Honouring one forever would let a crashed job pin an entire # snapshot generation on disk permanently. CACHE_READ_STALE_SECONDS="${CACHE_READ_STALE_SECONDS:-7200}" reader_marker_path() { printf '%s/.reading-%s-%s' "$1" "$2" "$3"; } reader_lock_acquire() { date +%s > "$(reader_marker_path "$1" "$2" "$3")" 2>/dev/null || true return 0 } reader_lock_release() { rm -f "$(reader_marker_path "$1" "$2" "$3")" 2>/dev/null || true return 0 } # Prints the number of live readers of under , and # sweeps markers past the staleness threshold as it goes. live_reader_count() { local root="$1" name="$2" now marker age n=0 now=$(date +%s) for marker in "$root"/.reading-"$name"-*; do [ -e "$marker" ] || continue age=$(( now - $(stat -c '%Y' "$marker" 2>/dev/null || echo "$now") )) if [ "$age" -lt "$CACHE_READ_STALE_SECONDS" ]; then n=$((n + 1)) else echo "readers: sweeping stale marker $(basename "$marker") (${age}s old > ${CACHE_READ_STALE_SECONDS}s)" >&2 rm -f "$marker" 2>/dev/null || true fi done printf '%s' "$n" return 0 } # Blocks until nothing is reading , or until the grace period # expires. Returns 0 when drained, 1 on timeout — the caller decides what to # do with a timeout, and in this codebase that decision is always "defer the # unlink", never "unlink anyway". wait_for_readers() { local root="$1" name="$2" grace="${3:-$CACHE_READ_GRACE_SECONDS}" deadline n waited=0 deadline=$(( $(date +%s) + grace )) while :; do n=$(live_reader_count "$root" "$name") [ "$n" -eq 0 ] && { [ "$waited" -gt 0 ] && echo "readers: ${name} drained after ${waited}s" return 0 } if [ "$(date +%s)" -ge "$deadline" ]; then echo "readers: ${n} job(s) still reading ${name} after ${grace}s" >&2 return 1 fi [ "$waited" = 0 ] && echo "readers: waiting for ${n} in-flight clone(s) of ${name} (grace ${grace}s)" sleep 1 waited=$((waited + 1)) done } # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The clone itself # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Number of times a torn clone is retried before the caller is failed. A tear # means the source changed identity or lost entries mid-walk, which is a # transient condition by definition — the publisher that caused it has already # put a complete new generation at the same path — so one retry almost always # suffices; the rest are headroom. CACHE_CLONE_ATTEMPTS="${CACHE_CLONE_ATTEMPTS:-4}" _tree_entries() { local n n=$(find "$1" -mindepth 1 2>/dev/null | wc -l) || n=0 printf '%s' "$n" return 0 } _dir_inode() { stat -c '%i' "$1" 2>/dev/null || printf 'missing' return 0 } write_cache_lock() { local dir="$1" id="$2" [ -n "$id" ] || return 0 [ -d "$dir" ] || return 0 date +%s > "${dir}/.ci-lock-${id}" 2>/dev/null || true return 0 } # Hardlink-clones SRC to a staging path, sanitises it, and publishes it to DST # with a single atomic rename. # # hardlink_clone_into [lock-id] # # The staging + rename is what closes the concurrent-seed race structurally # rather than by runner topology: a second job sharing this cache key either # sees DST absent (and stages its own clone, losing the rename harmlessly) or # sees it complete. There is no observable half-populated state, because a # directory rename is atomic and DST is never written through. # # The rename is necessary but NOT sufficient, and that gap is what this # function's retry loop closes. An atomic rename of a TRUNCATED tree publishes # a truncated tree atomically. Three things can truncate one: # # * `cp -al` failing partway (a source entry vanished after readdir listed # it) — caught by checking its exit status, which is why that status is # read into a variable here rather than left to an ambient `set -e` the # CALL SITES suppress anyway by invoking this function as a condition; # * `cp -al` succeeding while having silently never seen a subtree that was # unlinked before it read the parent's listing — caught only by the entry # count, since there is no error to report; # * the source being replaced wholesale mid-walk, so the clone splices two # generations — caught by comparing the source directory's inode before # and after. # # All three are verified on every attempt and a failing one restarts the # clone; a tree that fails the last attempt is deleted and reported, never # renamed into place. Combined with the reader marker (held across the copy, # which is what stops the publish side unlinking underneath it in the first # place), a partial tree cannot reach DST. # # `lock-id`, when given, writes this job's cache lock INTO the staging tree so # the directory already carries it the instant it appears under its final # name. Acquiring the lock after the rename would leave a freshly seeded # directory momentarily unlocked and therefore evictable by a concurrent job's # prune pass. # # Returns 0 if this caller's clone won the rename, 1 if another caller got # there first (the staging copy is discarded; DST is already valid), and 2 if # the source could not be cloned consistently at all. hardlink_clone_into() { local src="$1" dst="$2" tag="$3" lock_id="${4:-}" local parent tmp src_name attempt cp_rc n_before n_after i_before i_after if [ ! -d "$src" ]; then echo "::error::clone: source ${src} does not exist" >&2 return 2 fi parent=$(dirname "$dst") src_name=$(basename "$src") tmp="${parent}/.stage-${tag}" attempt=1 while : ; do rm -rf "$tmp" # Marker first, then the identity read, then the copy — see the ordering # proof in the reader-marker section above; swapping the first two lines # is what would reintroduce the race. reader_lock_acquire "$parent" "$src_name" "$tag" i_before=$(_dir_inode "$src") n_before=$(_tree_entries "$src") cp_rc=0 cp -al "$src" "$tmp" || cp_rc=$? n_after=$(_tree_entries "$tmp") i_after=$(_dir_inode "$src") reader_lock_release "$parent" "$src_name" "$tag" if [ "$cp_rc" -eq 0 ] && [ "$i_before" != missing ] && [ "$i_before" = "$i_after" ] \ && [ "$n_after" -eq "$n_before" ]; then break fi echo "::warning::clone: attempt ${attempt}/${CACHE_CLONE_ATTEMPTS} of ${src_name} was torn (cp rc=${cp_rc}, ${n_after}/${n_before} entries, source inode ${i_before} -> ${i_after}) — discarding and retrying" >&2 rm -rf "$tmp" if [ "$attempt" -ge "$CACHE_CLONE_ATTEMPTS" ]; then echo "::error::clone: ${src} could not be read consistently in ${CACHE_CLONE_ATTEMPTS} attempts — refusing to publish a partial tree at ${dst}" >&2 return 2 fi attempt=$((attempt + 1)) sleep 1 done strip_cargo_locks "$tmp" rm -f "$tmp"/.cache-last-used "$tmp"/.ci-lock-* 2>/dev/null || true if ! unshare_mutable_paths "$tmp"; then echo "::error::clone: could not privately own the mutable paths of ${dst} — discarding the staging tree rather than publishing one that aliases ${src}" >&2 rm -rf "$tmp" return 2 fi write_cache_lock "$tmp" "$lock_id" if mv -T "$tmp" "$dst" 2>/dev/null; then return 0 fi rm -rf "$tmp" return 1 }