grep: add support for PCRE v2

Add support for v2 of the PCRE API. This is a new major version of
PCRE that came out in early 2015[1].

The regular expression syntax is the same, but while the API is
similar, pretty much every function is either renamed or takes
different arguments. Thus using it via entirely new functions makes
sense, as opposed to trying to e.g. have one compile_pcre_pattern()
that would call either PCRE v1 or v2 functions.

Git can now be compiled with either USE_LIBPCRE1=YesPlease or
USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease, with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease currently being a
synonym for the former. Providing both is a compile-time error.

With earlier patches to enable JIT for PCRE v1 the performance of the
release versions of both libraries is almost exactly the same, with
PCRE v2 being around 1% slower.

However after I reported this to the pcre-dev mailing list[2] I got a
lot of help with the API use from Zoltán Herczeg, he subsequently
optimized some of the JIT functionality in v2 of the library.

Running the p7820-grep-engines.sh performance test against the latest
Subversion trunk of both, with both them and git compiled as -O3, and
the test run against linux.git, gives the following results. Just the
/perl/ tests shown:

    $ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=30 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND='grep -q LIBPCRE2 Makefile && make -j8 USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease CC=~/perl5/installed/bin/gcc NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=YesPlease CFLAGS=-O3 LIBPCREDIR=/home/avar/g/pcre2/inst LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/home/avar/g/pcre2/inst/lib || make -j8 USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease CC=~/perl5/installed/bin/gcc NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=YesPlease CFLAGS=-O3 LIBPCREDIR=/home/avar/g/pcre/inst LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/home/avar/g/pcre/inst/lib' ./run HEAD~5 HEAD~ HEAD p7820-grep-engines.sh
    [...]
    Test                                            HEAD~5            HEAD~                    HEAD
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    7820.3: perl grep 'how.to'                      0.31(1.10+0.48)   0.21(0.35+0.56) -32.3%   0.21(0.34+0.55) -32.3%
    7820.7: perl grep '^how to'                     0.56(2.70+0.40)   0.24(0.64+0.52) -57.1%   0.20(0.28+0.60) -64.3%
    7820.11: perl grep '[how] to'                   0.56(2.66+0.38)   0.29(0.95+0.45) -48.2%   0.23(0.45+0.54) -58.9%
    7820.15: perl grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare'       1.02(5.77+0.42)   0.31(1.02+0.54) -69.6%   0.23(0.50+0.54) -77.5%
    7820.19: perl grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te'          0.38(1.57+0.42)   0.27(0.85+0.46) -28.9%   0.21(0.33+0.57) -44.7%

See commit ("perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines",
2017-04-19) for details on the machine the above test run was executed
on.

Here HEAD~2 is git with PCRE v1 without JIT, HEAD~ is PCRE v1 with
JIT, and HEAD is PCRE v2 (also with JIT). See previous commits of mine
mentioning p7820-grep-engines.sh for more details on the test setup.

For ease of readability, a different run just of HEAD~ (PCRE v1 with
JIT v.s. PCRE v2), again with just the /perl/ tests shown:

    [...]
    Test                                            HEAD~             HEAD
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    7820.3: perl grep 'how.to'                      0.21(0.42+0.52)   0.21(0.31+0.58) +0.0%
    7820.7: perl grep '^how to'                     0.25(0.65+0.50)   0.20(0.31+0.57) -20.0%
    7820.11: perl grep '[how] to'                   0.30(0.90+0.50)   0.23(0.46+0.53) -23.3%
    7820.15: perl grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare'       0.30(1.19+0.38)   0.23(0.51+0.51) -23.3%
    7820.19: perl grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te'          0.27(0.84+0.48)   0.21(0.34+0.57) -22.2%

I.e. the two are either neck-to-neck, but PCRE v2 usually pulls ahead,
when it does it's around 20% faster.

A brief note on thread safety: As noted in pcre2api(3) & pcre2jit(3)
the compiled pattern can be shared between threads, but not some of
the JIT context, however the grep threading support does all pattern &
JIT compilation in separate threads, so this code doesn't need to
concern itself with thread safety.

See commit 63e7e9d8b6 ("git-grep: Learn PCRE", 2011-05-09) for the
initial addition of PCRE v1. This change follows some of the same
patterns it did (and which were discussed on list at the time),
e.g. mocking up types with typedef instead of ifdef-ing them out when
USE_LIBPCRE2 isn't defined. This adds some trivial memory use to the
program, but makes the code look nicer.

1. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20150105.162835.0666407a.en.html
2. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20170419.172322.833ee099.en.html

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 65 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index deeb968daa..11d083fbe0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -255,21 +255,61 @@ GIT_PARSE_WITH([openssl]))
 # Perl-compatible regular expressions instead of standard or extended
 # POSIX regular expressions.
 #
-# Define LIBPCREDIR=/foo/bar if your libpcre header and library files are in
+# Currently USE_LIBPCRE is a synonym for USE_LIBPCRE1, define
+# USE_LIBPCRE2 instead if you'd like to use version 2 of the PCRE
+# library. The USE_LIBPCRE flag will likely be changed to mean v2 by
+# default in future releases.
+#
+# Define LIBPCREDIR=/foo/bar if your PCRE header and library files are in
 # /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.
 #
 AC_ARG_WITH(libpcre,
-AS_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcre],[support Perl-compatible regexes (default is NO)])
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcre],[synonym for --with-libpcre1]),
+    if test "$withval" = "no"; then
+	USE_LIBPCRE1=
+    elif test "$withval" = "yes"; then
+	USE_LIBPCRE1=YesPlease
+    else
+	USE_LIBPCRE1=YesPlease
+	LIBPCREDIR=$withval
+	AC_MSG_NOTICE([Setting LIBPCREDIR to $LIBPCREDIR])
+        dnl USE_LIBPCRE1 can still be modified below, so don't substitute
+        dnl it yet.
+	GIT_CONF_SUBST([LIBPCREDIR])
+    fi)
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(libpcre1,
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcre1],[support Perl-compatible regexes via libpcre1 (default is NO)])
+AS_HELP_STRING([],           [ARG can be also prefix for libpcre library and headers]),
+    if test "$withval" = "no"; then
+	USE_LIBPCRE1=
+    elif test "$withval" = "yes"; then
+	USE_LIBPCRE1=YesPlease
+    else
+	USE_LIBPCRE1=YesPlease
+	LIBPCREDIR=$withval
+	AC_MSG_NOTICE([Setting LIBPCREDIR to $LIBPCREDIR])
+        dnl USE_LIBPCRE1 can still be modified below, so don't substitute
+        dnl it yet.
+	GIT_CONF_SUBST([LIBPCREDIR])
+    fi)
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(libpcre2,
+AS_HELP_STRING([--with-libpcre2],[support Perl-compatible regexes via libpcre2 (default is NO)])
 AS_HELP_STRING([],           [ARG can be also prefix for libpcre library and headers]),
+    if test -n "$USE_LIBPCRE1"; then
+        AC_MSG_ERROR([Only supply one of --with-libpcre1 or --with-libpcre2!])
+    fi
+
     if test "$withval" = "no"; then
-	USE_LIBPCRE=
+	USE_LIBPCRE2=
     elif test "$withval" = "yes"; then
-	USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease
+	USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease
     else
-	USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease
+	USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease
 	LIBPCREDIR=$withval
 	AC_MSG_NOTICE([Setting LIBPCREDIR to $LIBPCREDIR])
-        dnl USE_LIBPCRE can still be modified below, so don't substitute
+        dnl USE_LIBPCRE2 can still be modified below, so don't substitute
         dnl it yet.
 	GIT_CONF_SUBST([LIBPCREDIR])
     fi)
@@ -501,13 +541,11 @@ GIT_CONF_SUBST([NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO])
 GIT_CONF_SUBST([NO_OPENSSL])
 
 #
-# Define USE_LIBPCRE if you have and want to use libpcre. Various
-# commands such as log and grep offer runtime options to use
-# Perl-compatible regular expressions instead of standard or extended
-# POSIX regular expressions.
+# Handle the USE_LIBPCRE1 and USE_LIBPCRE2 options potentially set
+# above.
 #
 
-if test -n "$USE_LIBPCRE"; then
+if test -n "$USE_LIBPCRE1"; then
 
 GIT_STASH_FLAGS($LIBPCREDIR)
 
@@ -517,7 +555,22 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB([pcre], [pcre_version],
 
 GIT_UNSTASH_FLAGS($LIBPCREDIR)
 
-GIT_CONF_SUBST([USE_LIBPCRE])
+GIT_CONF_SUBST([USE_LIBPCRE1])
+
+fi
+
+
+if test -n "$USE_LIBPCRE2"; then
+
+GIT_STASH_FLAGS($LIBPCREDIR)
+
+AC_CHECK_LIB([pcre2-8], [pcre2_config_8],
+[USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease],
+[USE_LIBPCRE2=])
+
+GIT_UNSTASH_FLAGS($LIBPCREDIR)
+
+GIT_CONF_SUBST([USE_LIBPCRE2])
 
 fi