view rust/hg-cpython/src/pybytes_deref.rs @ 51239:7eea2e4109ae

rust-index: using the `hg::index::Index` in ancestors iterator and lazy set

Since there is no Rust implementation for REVLOGV2/CHANGELOGv2, we declare
them to be incompatible with Rust, hence indexes in these formats will use
the implementations from Python `mercurial.ancestor`. If this is an unacceptable
performance hit for current users of these formats, we can later on add Rust
implementations based on the C index for them or implement these formats for
the Rust indexes.

Among the challenges that we had to meet, we wanted to avoid taking the GIL each
time the inner (vcsgraph) iterator has to call the parents function. This would probably
still be acceptable in terms of performance with `AncestorsIterator`, but not with
`LazyAncestors` nor for the upcoming change in `MissingAncestors`.

Hence we enclose the reference to the index in a `PySharedRef`, leading to more
rigourous checking of mutations, which does pass now that there no logically immutable
methods of `hg::index::Index` that take a mutable reference as input.

use cpython::{PyBytes, Python};
use stable_deref_trait::StableDeref;

/// Safe abstraction over a `PyBytes` together with the `&[u8]` slice
/// that borrows it. Implements `Deref<Target = [u8]>`.
///
/// Calling `PyBytes::data` requires a GIL marker but we want to access the
/// data in a thread that (ideally) does not need to acquire the GIL.
/// This type allows separating the call an the use.
///
/// It also enables using a (wrapped) `PyBytes` in GIL-unaware generic code.
pub struct PyBytesDeref {
    #[allow(unused)]
    keep_alive: PyBytes,

    /// Borrows the buffer inside `self.keep_alive`,
    /// but the borrow-checker cannot express self-referential structs.
    data: *const [u8],
}

impl PyBytesDeref {
    pub fn new(py: Python, bytes: PyBytes) -> Self {
        Self {
            data: bytes.data(py),
            keep_alive: bytes,
        }
    }

    pub fn unwrap(self) -> PyBytes {
        self.keep_alive
    }
}

impl std::ops::Deref for PyBytesDeref {
    type Target = [u8];

    fn deref(&self) -> &[u8] {
        // Safety: the raw pointer is valid as long as the PyBytes is still
        // alive, and the returned slice borrows `self`.
        unsafe { &*self.data }
    }
}

unsafe impl StableDeref for PyBytesDeref {}

fn require_send<T: Send>() {}

#[allow(unused)]
fn static_assert_pybytes_is_send() {
    #[allow(clippy::no_effect)]
    require_send::<PyBytes>;
}

// Safety: PyBytes is Send. Raw pointers are not by default,
// but here sending one to another thread is fine since we ensure it stays
// valid.
unsafe impl Send for PyBytesDeref {}