fix(shader-cache): key on content hash instead of mtime, relocate out of source tree - #917
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Every worktree recompiled all ~139 shaders on first launch: `git worktree add`
checks files out with the checkout's own mtime, so a byte-identical shader in
a fresh worktree always looked newer than any pre-existing cache entry.
- Content-address every shader cache tier (SPIR-V, cross-compiled GLSL, GL
program binaries, Vulkan SPIR-V) by hashing the preprocessed source (or,
for the program-binary tier, the SPIR-V that produced it) together with the
full compiler-option set. Existence is now validity - the mtime-based
IsCacheStale staleness check is gone from all three backend files.
- Relocate the cache out of every worktree's source tree via new
ShaderCachePaths::Root(), defaulting to %LOCALAPPDATA%\OloEngine\ShaderCache
and overridable with OLO_SHADER_CACHE_DIR - so every worktree on a machine
now shares one warm cache. This is only safe because the key is
content-based; landing it before the content-hash change would have made a
shared cache invalidate itself on every checkout.
- Remove m_IncludedFilePaths (all three backends): includes are spliced
verbatim into the preprocessed source, so the content hash is already
sensitive to an included header changing - the separate include-path
tracking was only ever read by the deleted staleness check.
- Remove the GetCacheDirectory() nullptr-on-missing-assets/ UB path; it no
longer depends on the source tree existing.
- Repoint AssetContentValidityTest at the new location and retire the
per-worktree orphan-detection assertion (ShaderCacheEntriesAllHaveLiveGlslSources)
with a documented GTEST_SKIP: sharing the cache across worktrees means a
single worktree can no longer soundly tell a genuine orphan from a shader
that lives on a sibling worktree's branch. AllCacheFilesMatchKnownPattern
now also scans the new shared location so the shader-pattern whitelist
keeps real coverage.
- Fix the false "cache is checked into git" test comment; it never was
(.gitignore's `**/cache/**`).
Migration: discarded, not migrated. The old in-tree cache entries are
keyed by filename+mtime under a different directory entirely, so there is
nothing to convert - they simply go unused and the new location warms fresh.
Verified: OloEngine/OloEngine-Tests build clean; full local suite (6463
tests) passes with 0 failures. Measured the fix directly - a cold shader
test run did 480 real shaderc compiles; the identical re-run against the
warm cache did 8 (wall time 389s -> 101s). Cache files land correctly at
%LOCALAPPDATA%\OloEngine\ShaderCache\{opengl,vulkan}\ with content-hashed
filenames for both backends.
Closes #906
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe renderer adds a shared shader-cache root with an environment override. OpenGL and Vulkan caches now use content-addressed paths based on preprocessed source, SPIR-V data, shader stages, and compiler options. Modification-time tracking is removed. Tests and documentation reflect the new storage model. ChangesShader cache migration
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ShaderSource
participant ProcessIncludes
participant HashHelpers
participant ShaderCache
participant ShaderCompiler
ShaderSource->>ProcessIncludes: splice included source
ProcessIncludes->>HashHelpers: provide preprocessed source and compiler options
HashHelpers->>ShaderCache: request content-addressed entry
ShaderCache-->>ShaderCompiler: cache miss
ShaderCompiler->>ShaderCache: store compiled binary under hashed path
ShaderCache-->>ShaderSource: return cached or newly compiled binary
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In `@OloEngine/src/Platform/OpenGL/OpenGLShader.cpp`:
- Around line 301-308: Update CreateCacheDirectoryIfNeeded and its constructor
call path to use non-throwing std::error_code overloads for filesystem existence
checks and directory creation. When the cache path is unavailable or creation
fails, log the filesystem error and continue shader creation with caching
disabled, avoiding cache writes rather than propagating an exception.
- Around line 1432-1444: The cache-loading logic in OpenGLShader.cpp must reject
malformed entries: at lines 1432-1444 and 1581-1592, require a positive size
aligned to sizeof(u32), verify the binary read succeeds, and treat failures as
cache misses before resizing or accepting SpirvData. Also publish completed
cache files atomically so readers cannot observe partial entries.
- Around line 437-448: Update OpenGLTierOptions::Descriptor to include
GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects in the cross-compiler cache descriptor, and
update the raw-GLSL cache key path near the sibling site to version all
output-affecting settings such as kPrologue and kVulkanBuiltinShims, or key it
from the transformed GLSL, preventing reuse of stale program binaries.
In `@OloEngine/src/Platform/Vulkan/VulkanComputeShader.cpp`:
- Around line 37-41: Update the compute shader compiler options to explicitly
target SPIR-V 1.6 by calling SetTargetSpirv with kShadercSpirv16, and add
spirv=1.6 to kOptionsDescriptor so the cache descriptor matches compilation
settings.
In `@OloEngine/tests/AssetContentValidityTest.cpp`:
- Around line 1490-1497: Update the ShaderCachePaths::Root() validation to use a
separate shader-artifact regex requiring a 16-character hexadecimal content-hash
segment before .cached_, rather than the legacy shaderKind->Pattern. Preserve
the explicit allowances for program_binary_driver_stamp.txt and
pipeline_cache.vkpc, while continuing to classify malformed root entries as
unclassified.
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PR #917's SonarCloud Code Analysis check failed the Reliability Rating on New Code gate (required >= A). Fixes the three BLOCKER-level findings: - ShaderCachePaths.cpp used raw std::getenv (cpp:S990 - not thread-safe, no portable replacement). Route through the engine's one already-suppressed reader, OloEngine::Env::Get, instead of adding a second raw call site. - The same file used `override` as a local variable name, which SonarCloud flags as a restricted-identifier risk. Renamed to `dirOverride`. Also cleaned up the WARNING-level code-smell findings on the same lines while here, since they're on the same diff and cheap to fix: - Added nodiscard messages to match this file's existing `[[nodiscard("Store this!")]]` convention (six functions in OpenGLShader.cpp, one each in OpenGLShader.h, VulkanShader.h, ShaderCachePaths.h/.cpp). - Converted VulkanTierOptions/OpenGLTierOptions from struct to class (both hold only static methods, no data members - S1104 wants structs to be data-only). - OpenGLShader::PreProcess no longer mutates any member (the m_IncludedFilePaths tracking it removed in the previous commit was the only mutation), so it's now correctly const. Deliberately left alone: the "too many return statements" findings on LoadProgramBinaryCache (5) and SaveProgramBinaryCache (4). Both are pre-existing guard-clause control flow only re-flagged because I changed their signatures; restructuring working, already-tested cache-path logic for a non-blocking code-smell isn't worth the risk here, and it wasn't one of the gate's failed conditions. Verified: OloEngine-Tests builds clean; re-ran the shader/cache test subset (297 tests) - 296 passed, 1 skipped (the documented retirement), 0 failed.
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23-27: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftKeep the fallback cache root outside the worktree.
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LOCALAPPDATAis unset, Line 27 returnsassets/cache/shader. This restores an in-tree cache on non-Windows and stripped environments. It breaks the relocation requirement and prevents shared cross-worktree cache reuse.Resolve a platform user-cache directory, or disable disk caching when no external cache root is available. Do not fall back to
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In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/ShaderCachePaths.cpp`:
- Around line 23-27: Update the LOCALAPPDATA-unset fallback in the shader cache
path resolution logic to use an external platform user-cache directory when
available, preserving cross-worktree reuse. If no external cache root can be
resolved, disable disk caching instead of returning the in-tree
assets/cache/shader path.
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TSan caught DebugLevers.NoEngineCodeReadsAnOloVariableOutsideTheRegistry: ShaderCachePaths.cpp read OLO_SHADER_CACHE_DIR through Env::Get directly instead of going through the lever registry (Core/DebugLevers.inl), which every other OLO_* variable in the engine is required to do — it's what gives every lever the startup log line, the MCP tool, and a setter for free (LOCALAPPDATA stays a direct Env::Get since it's a real OS variable, not an engine lever). Added OLO_SHADER_CACHE_DIR as an OLO_LEVER_TEXT entry (same shape as the existing OLO_PHYSICS_CACHE_DIR) and switched ShaderCachePaths::ResolveRoot to read it via Levers::ShaderCacheDir(). Verified: rebuilt OloEngine-Tests, re-ran DebugLevers.* + shader/cache tests (305 tests) - 304 passed, 1 skipped (the documented retirement), 0 failed.
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Five real findings, all fixed:
- CreateCacheDirectoryIfNeeded used throwing filesystem calls. The new root
can be a user-supplied OLO_SHADER_CACHE_DIR or %LOCALAPPDATA%, either of
which can be on an inaccessible volume; that must degrade to "no cache
this session," not abort shader creation. Switched to the std::error_code
overloads and log-and-continue.
- OpenGLTierOptions::Descriptor() omitted the unconditional
require_extension("GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects") call, and the
bindless raw-GLSL route's program-binary cache key (hashed from the raw
pre-patch source, since that route has no SPIR-V tier to key from
instead) had no way to see a change to the patch logic itself (kPrologue,
kVulkanBuiltinShims) - a purely-code-level change would silently keep
serving a stale binary. Added the extension to the descriptor and a
kBindlessPatchVersion marker (with a comment at the patch site telling
the next editor to bump it) mixed into that route's key.
- Both cache-file readers resized a std::vector<u32> by `size / sizeof(u32)`
(truncating a non-word-aligned size) and then read the full `size` bytes
into it - a heap buffer overflow on a truncated or corrupt file, which a
shared cache directory makes more plausible than the old per-worktree one
(an interrupted write). Added TryReadSpirvCacheFile, which validates a
positive word-aligned size before resizing and treats any rejection as a
cache miss.
- VulkanComputeShader.cpp's compute tier never called SetTargetSpirv, unlike
its graphics-stage sibling VulkanShader.cpp - a real inconsistency that
could let an older shaderc silently fall back to a different SPIR-V
dialect for compute shaders specifically. Added the same explicit pin and
its descriptor entry.
- AssetContentValidityTest's new scan of ShaderCachePaths::Root() reused the
legacy shader-kind regex, whose lenient `.+?` prefix would accept a
malformed non-content-addressed filename under the new root. Replaced
with a dedicated pattern requiring the 16-hex content-hash segment for
shader artifacts, still admitting the two machine-local sidecar files.
Verified: rebuilt OloEngine-Tests; re-ran AssetContentValidity/*Shader*/
DebugLevers.* (305 tests) - 304 passed, 1 skipped (the documented
retirement), 0 failed.
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Summary
Fixes #906. The shader cache was keyed on filename + mtime, and
git worktree addchecks files out with the checkout's own timestamp — so a byte-identical.glslin a fresh worktree always looked newer than any pre-existing cache entry, and every worktree paid a full ~139-shader recompile on first launch.IsCacheStaleis gone fromOpenGLShader.cpp,VulkanShader.cpp, andVulkanComputeShader.cpp.ShaderCachePaths::Root()resolvesOLO_SHADER_CACHE_DIR, defaulting to%LOCALAPPDATA%\OloEngine\ShaderCache. Every worktree on a machine now shares one warm cache. This is only safe because the key is content-based — landing the relocation first would have made a shared cache invalidate itself on every checkout, which is why the two had to ship together.m_IncludedFilePathsfrom all three backends:#includes are spliced verbatim into the preprocessed source before hashing, so the cache key is already sensitive to a header changing. The separate include-path tracking existed only to feed the now-deleted mtime check.GetCacheDirectory()nullptr-on-missing-assets/UB path — the cache no longer depends on the source tree existing.VulkanPipelineCacherelocated too, staying machine-local (the driver validates its own blob header; no extra guard needed).Ride-alongs
.gitignore:6is**/cache/**).AssetContentValidityTest's cache-integrity checks at the new location.Migration decision: discard, not migrate
Old in-tree cache entries (
OloEditor/assets/cache/shader/...) are keyed by filename+mtime under a directory the code no longer even looks at — a different location and a different filename scheme. There's nothing to convert; they simply go unused, and the new shared location warms fresh on first use per machine (not per worktree).A test's coverage got retired, deliberately
AssetContentValidity.ShaderCacheEntriesAllHaveLiveGlslSourcesused to hard-fail on any cache entry whose source name didn't exist under the current worktree'sassets/shaders/— a real orphan detector when the cache was per-worktree. Sharing the cache across worktrees (the whole point of this PR, and this repo's normal multi-worktree workflow) breaks that premise: an entry left by a shader that exists on a sibling worktree's branch but not this one is indistinguishable, from here, from a genuinely deleted shader. Hard-failing on that would be a false positive baked into the new architecture. I skipped it with a documented reason rather than deleting it outright or leaving a landmine that fails the next time someone runs the suite on a multi-worktree machine.AllCacheFilesMatchKnownPattern's "shader" whitelist entry now also scans the newShaderCachePaths::Root()location (in addition to the legacy in-treeassets/cache/), so the "catch a new/malformed cache filename" coverage isn't silently lost by the relocation.Verification
OloEngineandOloEngine-Testsbuild clean (dev-cached tree, clang-cl, Debug).shaderc/cross-compile invocations ([Vulkan SPIR-V] Compiling/[OpenGL SPIR-V] Compilinglog lines), 389s wall time.%LOCALAPPDATA%\OloEngine\ShaderCache\{opengl,vulkan}\with content-hashed filenames, e.g.AtmosphereSky.glsl.0f911675ba786e89.cached_opengl.vert, for both the GL and Vulkan (OLO_WITH_VULKAN=ONin this build) backends.git worktreefor the cross-worktree acceptance criterion, but the mechanism is worktree-independent by construction: the cache key contains no path/worktree information at all, only content + compiler options, and the two-process warm/cold demonstration above is the same proof a second worktree would give (nothing in the lookup path readscwdor any worktree identity).Review guide
Where I'd look hardest
OpenGLShader.cpp's threeLoadProgramBinaryCache/SaveProgramBinaryCachecall sites (CreateProgram,CreateProgramForAmd,CreateProgramFromRawGLSL) — each hashes a different representation of "this shader's content" (m_OpenGLSPIRV,m_VulkanSPIRV, and the raw pre-patch GLSL text respectively), and Load/Save must agree on which one within a single route or a save writes a filename the next load never looks for. I traced each route's actual compile flow to confirm which member is populated before the cache lookup runs, but this is the part of the diff most likely to hide a subtle "hashed the wrong thing" bug.VulkanShader.cpp/VulkanComputeShader.cpp's hand-written option descriptors (kOptionsDescriptor) — these are text strings that must stay in sync with the actualshaderc::CompileOptionscalls a few lines below by convention/comment, not by a shared code path (unlikeOpenGLShader.cpp'sVulkanTierOptions::Apply()/Descriptor(), which derive both from one place). A future option change here could silently drift.AssetContentValidityTest.cppchanges — retiring one test's coverage and extending another's scan location is a judgment call under review pressure; worth a second look at whether the retirement is the right call versus, say, enumerating sibling worktrees viagit worktree list(I considered it, decided the added subprocess-spawning complexity in a pure-CPU test wasn't worth it for what was originally a hygiene check, not a correctness gate).What I verified, and how — named above: build exit codes, full-suite pass count, and the cold/warm shaderc-invocation-count comparison (the concrete evidence for the acceptance criterion, not just "cache files exist").
Least confident about — the two hand-synced
kOptionsDescriptorstrings in the Vulkan backend files (see review point 2 above). They're correct today (I diffed them against the actualSetXxxcalls), but there's no compiler-enforced link between the two the way there is on the GL side.Deliberately not tested — a literal second
git worktreecross-worktree run (see Verification above for why I consider the two-process demonstration equivalent), and the AMD-driver-workaround compile path (CreateProgramForAmd) specifically, since this machine's GPU isn't AMD — I verified its content-hash logic by reading, not by exercising it live.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
OLO_SHADER_CACHE_DIR.Bug Fixes
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