#3543 decreases the size of the tagTable by a factor of 2, which requires using the first tag position in each row for head position instead of a tag.
Although position 0 stopped being a valid match, it still persisted in mask calculation resulting in the matches loops possibly terminating before it should have. The fix skips position 0 to solve this problem.
Allocate half the memory for tag space, which means that we get one less slot for an actual tag (needs to be used for next position index).
The results is a slight loss in compression ratio (up to 0.2%) and some regressions/improvements to speed depending on level and sample. In turn, we get to save 16% of the hash table's space (5 bytes per entry instead of 6 bytes per entry).
* Add ZSTD_setFParams() and ZSTD_setParams()
* Modify ZSTD_setCParams() to use ZSTD_setParameter() to avoid a second path setting parameters
* Add unit tests
* Update documentation to suggest using them to replace deprecated functions
Fixes#3396.
The block splitter confuses sequences with literal length == 65536 that use a
repeat offset code. It interprets this as literal length == 0 when deciding the
meaning of the repeat offset, and corrupts the repeat offset history. This is
benign, merely causing suboptimal compression performance, if the confused
history is flushed before the end of the block, e.g. if there are 3 consecutive
non-repeat code sequences after the mistake. It also is only triggered if the
block splitter decided to split the block.
All that to say: This is a rare bug, and requires quite a few conditions to
trigger. However, the good news is that if you have a way to validate that the
decompressed data is correct, e.g. you've enabled zstd's checksum or have a
checksum elsewhere, the original data is very likely recoverable. So if you were
affected by this bug please reach out.
The fix is to remind the block splitter that the literal length is actually 64K.
The test case is a bit tricky to set up, but I've managed to reproduce the issue.
Thanks to @danlark1 for alerting us to the issue and providing us a reproducer!
* Fixes zstd-dll build (https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/3492):
- Adds pool.o and threading.o dependency to the zstd-dll target
- Moves custom allocation functions into header to avoid needing to add dependency on common.o
- Adds test target for zstd-dll
- Adds github workflow that buildis zstd-dll
This frame is invalid because the `Window_Size = 0`, and the
`Block_Maximum_Size = min(128 KB, Window_Size) = 0`. But the empty
compressed block has a `Block_Content` size of 2, which is invalid.
The fix is to switch to using a `Window_Descriptor` instead of the
`Single_Segment_Flag`. This sets the `Window_Size = 1024`.
Hexdump before this PR: `28b5 2ffd 2000 1500 0000 00`
Hexdump after this PR: `28b5 2ffd 0000 1500 0000 00`
For issue #3482.
such scenario can happen, for example,
when trying a decompression-only benchmark on invalid data.
Other possibilities include an allocation error in an intermediate step.
So far, the benchmark would return immediately, but still return 0.
On command line, this would be confusing, as the program appears successful (though it does not display any successful message).
Now it returns !0, which can be interpreted as an error by command line.
Note that the `fd` is only valid while the file is still open. So we need to
move the setting calls to before we close the file. However! We cannot do so
with the `utime()` call (even though `futimens()` exists) because the follow-
ing `close()` call to the `fd` will reset the atime of the file. So it seems
the `utime()` call has to happen after the file is closed.
Somewhat surprisingly, calling `fchmod()` is non-trivially faster than calling
`chmod()`, and so on.
This commit introduces alternate variants to some common file util functions
that take an optional fd. If present, they call the `f`-variant of the
underlying function. Otherwise, they fall back to the regular filename-taking
version of the function.
Previously, cli-test would, by default, check that a stderr output is strictly identical to a saved outcome.
When there was no instructions on how to interpret stderr, it would default to requiring it to be empty.
There are many tests cases though where stderr content doesn't matter, and we are mainly interested in the return code of the cli.
For these cases, it was possible to set a .ignore document, which would instruct to ignore stderr content.
This PR update the logic, to make .ignore the default.
When willing to check that stderr content is empty, one must now add an empty .strict file.
This will allow status message to evolve without triggering many cli-tests errors.
This is especially important when some of these status include compression results, which may change as a result of compression optimizations.
It also makes it easier to add new tests which only care about the CLI's return code.
Before calling a dictionary good, make sure that it can compress an
input. If v0.7.3 rejects v0.7.3's dictionary, fall back to the v1.0
dictionary. This is not the job of the verison test to test it, because
we cannot fix this code.
Add generic C versions of the fast decoding loops to serve architectures
that don't have an assembly implementation. Also allow selecting the C
decoding loop over the assembly decoding loop through a zstd
decompression parameter `ZSTD_d_disableHuffmanAssembly`.
I benchmarked on my Intel i9-9900K and my Macbook Air with an M1 processor.
The benchmark command forces zstd to compress without any matches, using
only literals compression, and measures only Huffman decompression speed:
```
zstd -b1e1 --compress-literals --zstd=tlen=131072 silesia.tar
```
The new fast decoding loops outperform the previous implementation uniformly,
but don't beat the x86-64 assembly. Additionally, the fast C decoding loops suffer
from the same stability problems that we've seen in the past, where the assembly
version doesn't. So even though clang gets close to assembly on x86-64, it still
has stability issues.
| Arch | Function | Compiler | Default (MB/s) | Assembly (MB/s) | Fast (MB/s) |
|---------|----------------|--------------|----------------|-----------------|-------------|
| x86-64 | decompress 4X1 | gcc-12.2.0 | 1029.6 | 1308.1 | 1208.1 |
| x86-64 | decompress 4X1 | clang-14.0.6 | 1019.3 | 1305.6 | 1276.3 |
| x86-64 | decompress 4X2 | gcc-12.2.0 | 1348.5 | 1657.0 | 1374.1 |
| x86-64 | decompress 4X2 | clang-14.0.6 | 1027.6 | 1659.9 | 1468.1 |
| aarch64 | decompress 4X1 | clang-12.0.5 | 1081.0 | N/A | 1234.9 |
| aarch64 | decompress 4X2 | clang-12.0.5 | 1270.0 | N/A | 1516.6 |
`zstd` CLI has progressively moved to the policy of
ignoring `--rm` command when the output is `stdout`.
The primary drive is to feature a behavior more consistent with `gzip`,
when `--rm` is the default, but is also ignored when output is `stdout`.
Other policies are certainly possible, but would break from this `gzip` convention.
The new policy was inconsistenly enforced, depending on the exact list of commands.
For example, it was possible to circumvent it by using `-c --rm` in this order,
which would re-establish source removal.
- Update the CLI so that it necessarily catch these situations and ensure that `--rm` is always disabled when output is `stdout`.
- Added a warning message in this case (for verbosity 3 `-v`).
- Added an `assert()`, which controls that `--rm` is no longer active with `stdout`
- Added tests, which control the behavior, even when `--rm` is added after `-c`
- Removed some legacy code which where trying to apply a specific policy for the `stdout` + `--rm` case, which is no longer possible
Older versions of zstandard have a bug in the dictionary builder, that
can cause dictionary building to fail. The process still exits 0, but
the dictionary is not created.
For reference, the bug is that it creates a dictionary that starts with
the zstd dictionary magic, in the process of writing the dictionary header,
but the header isn't fully written yet, and zstd fails compressions in
this case, because the dictionary is malformated. We fixed this later on
by trying to load the dictionary as a zstd dictionary, but if that fails
we fallback to content only (by default).
The fix is to:
1. Make the dictionary determinsitic by sorting the input files.
Previously the bug would only sometimes occur, when the input files
were in a particular order.
2. If dictionary creation fails, fallback to the `head` dictionary.
* Cap shortCache chainLog to 24
* Cap row match finder hashLog so that rowLog <= 24
* Add unit tests to expose all cases. The row match finder unit tests
are only run in 64-bit mode, because they allocate ~1GB.
Fixes#3336
