It is hard for people to understand current wording, so let's expand
zconn_at description to additionally explain what it is providing with
second set of words, which, hopefully, lowers potential ambiguity a bit.

/reported-by @jwolf083

Pygolang egg provides "golang" python package, not "pygolang".
Bug introduced in 5c8340d2 (*: Use defer for dbclose & friends).

In PEP517 mode setup.py is sourced - not executed - and the build fails
with ImportError like this:

    Preparing wheel metadata ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/bin/python2 /home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmp2F3aEs
         cwd: /home/kirr/src/wendelin/wendelin.core
    Complete output (53 lines):
    running dist_info
    creating /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-sPiqUt/wendelin.core.egg-info
    writing requirements to /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-sPiqUt/wendelin.core.egg-info/requires.txt
    writing /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-sPiqUt/wendelin.core.egg-info/PKG-INFO
    writing top-level names to /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-sPiqUt/wendelin.core.egg-info/top_level.txt
    writing dependency_links to /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-sPiqUt/wendelin.core.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
    writing entry points to /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-sPiqUt/wendelin.core.egg-info/entry_points.txt
    writing manifest file '/tmp/pip-modern-metadata-sPiqUt/wendelin.core.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    package init file '__init__.py' not found (or not a regular file)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 257, in <module>
        main()
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 240, in main
        json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 110, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
        return hook(metadata_directory, config_settings)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 155, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
        self.run_setup()
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 234, in run_setup
        self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 141, in run_setup
        exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals())
      File "setup.py", line 374, in <module>
        """.splitlines()]
      File "/home/kirr/src/tools/go/pygolang/golang/pyx/build.py", line 118, in setup
        setuptools_dso.setup(**kw)
      File "/home/kirr/src/tools/py/pypa/setuptools_dso/src/setuptools_dso/__init__.py", line 37, in setup
        _setup(**kws)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 145, in setup
        return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
        dist.run_commands()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
        self.run_command(cmd)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/dist_info.py", line 31, in run
        egg_info.run()
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 296, in run
        self.find_sources()
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 303, in find_sources
        mm.run()
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 534, in run
        self.add_defaults()
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 574, in add_defaults
        rcfiles = list(walk_revctrl())
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/sdist.py", line 20, in walk_revctrl
        for item in ep.load()(dirname):
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2434, in load
        return self.resolve()
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2444, in resolve
        raise ImportError(str(exc))
    ImportError: 'module' object has no attribute 'git_lsfiles'

See comments added to register_as_entrypoint for explanation of what
happens.

Wendelin.core will soon switch to PEP517 mode (by adding pyproject.toml)
to build-require Cython, Pygolang and friends.

Wendelin.core 2 will need to spawn WCFS filesystem server that accesses
the same ZODB database as the program that spawns it. The database
argument passed to WCFS is passed in the form of URL[1,2].  Even though
zodburi provides way to convert an URL into ZODB storage instance, there
is currently no way for reverse operation - to convert ZODB storage
instance into URL to access it(*). So we have to build it by our own.

Provide zstor_2zurl stub that currently works for FileStorage only.
ZEO and NEO support is TODO.

In the future we might want to move this functionality into
zodbtools/py.

[1] https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/zodbtools/blob/a2e4dd23/zodbtools/help.py#L27-53
[2] https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/neo/blob/3d909114/go/zodb/zodbtools/help.go#L25-51

(*) contrary to ZODB/go where this functionality is provided out of the box:
    https://godoc.org/lab.nexedi.com/kirr/neo/go/zodb#IStorage

Wendelin.core 2 will need to hook into when client ZODB.Connection
changes its database view and readjust WCFS-level client connection
accordingly.

ZODB.Connection can change its view on either connection reopen, or even
without reopen on start of new transaction.

This patch implements ZODB.Connection.onResyncCallback for ZODB5 only.

ZODB4 and ZODB3 support is TODO.

For wendelin.core v2 we need a way to know at which particular database
state application-level ZODB connection is viewing the database. Knowing
that state, WCFS client library will interact with WCFS filesystem server
and, in simple terms, request the server to provide data as of that
particular database state.

Contrary to ZODB/go[1] ZODB/py does not provide the functionality to
obtain DB state of connection view, so we have to build it ourselves.
Let us call the function that for a client ZODB connection returns
database state corresponding to its database view as zconn_at.

It is relatively easy to implement zconn_at for ZODB5, since ZODB5
adopted MVCC uniformly and this patch does just that. However even with
ZODB5 currently all released ZODB5 versions have race in
Connection.open() vs invalidations[2], and so the first ZODB5 release
with which zconn_at implemented here will work reliable should be
upcoming ZODB 5.5.2

It is TODO to implement zconn_at for ZODB4 and ZODB3, which organize
things differently.

Please note what would happen if zconn_at gives, even a bit, incorrect
answer: wcfs client will ask wcfs server to provide array data as of
different database state compared to current on-client ZODB connection.
This will result in that data accessed via ZBigArray will _not_
correspond to all other data accessed via regular ZODB mechanism.
It is, in other words, would be a data corruptions.

[1] https://godoc.org/lab.nexedi.com/kirr/neo/go/zodb#Connection
[2] https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/issues/290

This will be needed in the following patches to know how to inject
zconn_at or zconn resync functionality into particular ZODB version.

- mention in comments that _ZBigFileH not only proxies changes from
  virtmem -> ZODB, but also the other way: virtmem <- ZODB.
- refresh comments, fix typo.

- Provide brief top-level overview + refresh loadblk/storeblk/release comments.
- Add `typedef struct bigfile_ops bigfile_ops` that we usually add for all structs.

It is valid to compare a Page and a VMA only if they belong to the same
fileh.

-> into vma_page_infilerange().

We will soon need to use this functionality from several places.

Start preparing vma early, not after the call to mem_valloc.
This codeflow will be more convenient when we add mmap-through-wcfs codepath.

We are soon going to use this functionality from several places.

The place to perform the mmap is changed slightly because vma_mmap_page
deduces prot from page->state and for that we have to finish preparing
page->state first.

Freed Page structs must be in PAGE_EMPTY state.

The code sequence of

        list_del(&page->lru);
        bzero(page, sizeof(*page)); /* just in case */
        free(page);

was open-coded several times.

This is needed so that e.g. a Python class implemented in C or Cython
(cdef class) could inherit from PyBigFile.

Don't put _bigfile.h into separate include/ directory, and keep it along
main .c file, similarly to how pygolang is organized.

Provide package-level documentation that gives brief overview of what
this package does. Split internal notes into separate comment.

Starting from 5755a6b3 (Basic setup.py / Makefile to build/install/sdist
stuff + bigfile.so skeleton) and 35eb95c2 (bigfile: Python wrapper
around virtual memory subsystem) we were using Plan9 C extensions[1] for
simple inheritance. Those extensions are supported by GCC with
-fplan9-extensions option. However that option is supported only for C,
while for C++ it does not work at all with error produced by the compiler
on Plan9 syntax.

Soon we'll need to add another extension - written in C++ - to
wendelin.core . This extension will be providing client side of WCFS and
integrating that with virtmem. In that extension we'll need to use
_bigfile data structures - in particular we'll need to use PyBigFile and
extend it with another `cdef class` children written in Cython/C++.

This patch prepares for that: first stop using Plan9 C extensions in
_bigfile py module data structures and adapt the code correspondingly.
In the next patch we'll move those data structures into an .h file.

We don't drop -fplan9-extensions from setup.py, because Plan9-style
inheritance continues to be used internally by virtmem - e.g. in
ram_shmfs.c and friends.

A bit pity to drop that good stuff, but given that we'll need to use C++
for WCFS client for other good stuff provided by pygolang[2], it is a
reasonable compromise.

[1] http://9p.io/sys/doc/comp.html  "Extensions" section
[2] https://pypi.org/project/pygolang

It was from long-ago marked as "XXX move to common place".

I noticed this while working on WCFS: if file blocks topology change,
the invalidation process is not working correctly. It is also not
correct with respect to live cache pressure.

Add FIXME in the code and test for live cache pressure.

5a4562fc
48eb692f
d1a579b2
69c94fbc

For ZBlk0 this is trivial, but for ZBlk1 it may seem that we could avoid
changing ZBlk object itself and mark only pointed-to ZData object as
changed. However that would be not correct to do if we consider
invalidations.

Noticed while working on WCFS.

Add package-level documentation to

  - bigfile/file_zodb.py,
  - bigarray/array_zodb.py, and
  - lib/zodb.py

The most interesting read is file_zodb.py .

Slightly improve documenation for functions in a couple of places.

Improving documentation was long overdue and it is improved only slightly by this commit.

We already keep FileStorage test database on /tmp/ and NEO itself (via
neo.tests.functional.NEOCluster) also keeps test data on tmpfs. However
test database for ZEO was created in current directory and was wearing
out SSD unnecessarily.

FIXME zeo_forker currently does not provide API to keep all server files
in particular place. This way server conf and log are still emitted in
current directory, but at least we move data.fs away. Since conf and log
are uniquely named, e.g. server-<ΧΧΧ>.conf and tmpYYY.log, and it was
only that Data.fs was named non-uniquely, by moving Data.fs into unique
per-server place, this also helps with-ZEO tests to execute correctly in
parallel with `tox -p`.

Else it won't compile with C++. This needs my patch to CCAN to work.
Patch description and problem details are here:

http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ccan;a=commitdiff;h=39b46a02b719

We are going to add C++ parts to wendelin.core soon.
Mark all current functionality with `extern "C"` as a preparatory step.

There was an XXX of whether fileh_open should be a BigFile method or
global function. However if it would be a global function it will need
to anyway accept file parameter to indicate which file is opened, and
that in turn suggests that it should be a file method. Remove XXX.

try/finally was used in a couple of places to save/restore default ZBlk
format setting. Move the restore part close to save with the help of
defer.

For tests this makes sure that if one test fails, it won't make following
tests fail just because the next test will fail trying to lock test database.

For regular code (demo_zbigarray.py) this is also a good thing to do -
to always close the database irregardless of whether an exception was
raised before program reached end of main.

Pygolang becomes regular - not test only - dependency. Being regular
dependency is currently required only by demo_zbigarray.py, but it will
be also used in upcoming wcfs, so adding pygolang into wendelin.core
dependencies aligns with the plan.

dbclose now uses defer almost everywhere - there are still few places in
tests, where one test function is opening/closing test database multiple
times - those were not (yet ?) converted.

Instead of

	raises(Exception, 'code')

do

	with raises(Exception):
		code

This removes lots of warnings, similar to below example:

	bigfile/tests/test_basic.py::test_basic
	  /home/kirr/src/wendelin/wendelin.core/bigfile/tests/test_basic.py:79: PytestDeprecationWarning: raises(..., 'code(as_a_string)') is deprecated, use the context manager form or use `exec()` directly

	  See https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/deprecations.html#raises-warns-exec
	    raises(ROAttributeError, "f.blksize = 1") # RO attribute

-> into CHECK_MRU and CHECK_DIRTY.

Besides improving signal/noise ratio in tests, it also gives more
details by printing full lists when things are found to be different
from expected.

The undef defined in that function were placed in next function going
after it which does not define any macro.