The `ccache` tool can be very effective at reducing compilation times
when re-running pipelines with only minor changes each time. For example
a fresh 'build-system-fedora' job will typically take 20 minutes on the
gitlab.com shared runners. With ccache this is reduced to as little as
6 minutes.
Normally meson would auto-detect existance of ccache in $PATH and use
it automatically, but the way we wrap meson from configure breaks this,
as we're passing in an config file with explicitly set compiler paths.
Thus we need to add $CCACHE_WRAPPERSPATH to the front of $PATH. For
unknown reasons if doing this in msys though, gcc becomes unable to
invoke 'cc1' when run from meson. For msys we thus set CC='ccache gcc'
before invoking 'configure' instead.
A second problem with msys is that cache misses are incredibly
expensive, so enabling ccache massively slows down the build when
the cache isn't well populated. This is suspected to be a result of
the cost of spawning processes under the msys architecture. To deal
with this we set CCACHE_DEPEND=1 which enables ccache's 'depend_only'
strategy. This avoids extra spawning of the pre-processor during
cache misses, with the downside that is it less likely ccache will
find a cache hit after semantically benign compiler flag changes.
This is the lesser of two evils, as otherwise we can't use ccache
at all under msys and remain inside the job time limit.
If people are finding ccache to hurt their pipelines, it can be
disabled by setting the 'CCACHE_DISABLE=1' env variable against
their gitlab fork CI settings.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230804111054.281802-2-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230829161528.2707696-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
If not set explicitly, gitlab assumes 'when: on_success" as the
publishing criteria for artifacts. This is reasonable if the
artifact is an output deliverable of the job. This is useless
if the artifact is a log file to be used for debugging job
failures.
This change makes the desired criteria explicit for every job
that publishes artifacts.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230503145535.91325-2-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230630180423.558337-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
We use a fixed container tag of 'latest' so that contributors' forks
don't end up with an ever growing number of containers as they work
on throwaway feature branches.
This fixed tag causes problems running CI upstream in stable staging
branches, however, because the stable staging branch will publish old
container content that clashes with that needed by primary staging
branch. This makes it impossible to reliably run CI pipelines in
parallel in upstream for different staging branches.
This introduces $QEMU_CI_CONTAINER_TAG global variable as a way to
change which tag container publishing uses. Initially it can be set
by contributors as a git push option if they want to override the
default use of 'latest' eg
git push gitlab <branch> -o ci.variable=QEMU_CONTAINER_TAG=fish
this is useful if contributors need to run pipelines for different
branches concurrently in their forks.
Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230608164018.2520330-2-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The only remaining user of submodules at build time is roms/SLOF,
which is handled in pc-bios/s390-ccw/Makefile. Remove the relevant
code from the main makefile.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Move the handling of the roms/SLOF submodule out of the main Makefile,
since we are going to remove submodules from the build process of QEMU.
Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Compared to submodules, .wrap files have several advantages:
* option parsing and downloading is delegated to meson
* the commit is stored in a text file instead of a magic entry in the
git tree object
* we could stop shipping external dependencies that are only used as a
fallback, but not break compilation on platforms that lack them.
For example it may make sense to download dtc at build time, controlled
by --enable-download, even when building from a tarball. Right now,
this patch does the opposite: make-release treats dtc like libvfio-user
(which is not stable API and therefore hasn't found its way into any
distros) and keycodemap (which is a copylib, for better or worse).
dependency() can fall back to a wrap automatically. However, this
is only possible for libraries that come with a .pc file, and this
is not very common for libfdt even though the upstream project in
principle provides it; it also removes the control that we provide with
--enable-fdt={system,internal}. Therefore, the logic to pick system
vs. internal libfdt is left untouched.
--enable-fdt=git is removed; it was already a synonym for
--enable-fdt=internal.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This commit changes how we detect and install meson. It notably removes
'--meson='.
Currently, configure creates a lightweight Python virtual environment
unconditionally using the user's configured $python that inherits system
packages. Temporarily, we forced the use of meson source present via git
submodule or in the release tarball.
With this patch, we restore the ability to use a system-provided meson:
If Meson is installed in the build venv and meets our minimum version
requirements, we will use that Meson. This includes a system provided
meson, which would be visible via system-site packages inside the venv.
In the event that Meson is installed but *not for the chosen Python
interpreter*, not found, or of insufficient version, we will attempt to
install Meson from vendored source into the newly created Python virtual
environment. This vendored installation replaces both the git submodule
and tarball source mechanisms for sourcing meson.
As a result of this patch, the Python interpreter we use for both our
own build scripts *and* Meson extensions are always known to be the
exact same Python. As a further benefit, there will also be a symlink
available in the build directory that points to the correct, configured
python and can be used by e.g. manual tests to invoke the correct,
configured Python unambiguously.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230511035435.734312-18-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To avoid lots of copy and paste lets deal with artefacts in a
template. This way we can filter out most of the pre-binary object and
library files we no longer need as we have the final binaries.
build-system-alpine also saved .git-submodule-status so for simplicity
we bring that into the template as well.
As an example the build-system-ubuntu artefacts before this patch
where around 1.3 GB, after dropping the object files it comes to 970
MB.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230228190653.1602033-23-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
By using --enable-fdt=system we can make sure that the configure
script does not try to check out the "dtc" submodule. This should
help to safe some precious CI minutes in the long run.
While we're at it, also drop some now-redundant --enable-slirp
and --enable-capstone statements. These used to have the "=system"
suffix in the past, too, which has been dropped when the their
corresponding submodules had been removed. Since these features
are auto-enabled anyway now (since the containers have the right
libraries installed), we do not need the explicit --enable-...
statements anymore.
Message-Id: <20230207201447.566661-6-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
It's easier to use ${TARGETS:+--target-list="$TARGETS"} to add
a --target-list parameter depending on whether the TARGETS variable
is set or not.
Message-Id: <20230207201447.566661-5-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
This converts the main build and container jobs to use the
base job rules, defining the following new variables
- QEMU_JOB_SKIPPED - jobs that are known to be currently
broken and should not be run. Can still be manually
launched if desired.
- QEMU_JOB_AVOCADO - jobs that run the Avocado integration
test harness.
- QEMU_JOB_PUBLISH - jobs that publish content after the
branch is merged upstream
As build-tools-and-docs runs on master we declare the requirement of
building amd64-debian-container optional as it should already exits
once we merge.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220526110705.59952-5-berrange@redhat.com>
[AJB: fix upstream typo, mention optional container req]
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220527153603.887929-32-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This allows the gitlab UI to show the test results in different ways,
see doc:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/unit_test_reports.html#how-it-works
Previous we only reports avocado test results (.avocado_test_job_template),
with this change, the qemu/meson tests are also covered.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220525173411.612224-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
[AJB: expand the commit description]
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220527153603.887929-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
When running 'make check' we only get a summary of progress on the
console. Fortunately meson/ninja have saved the raw test output to a
logfile. Exposing this log will make it easier to debug failures that
happen in CI.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220509124134.867431-3-berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
In the discussion about renaming the `tests/acceptance` [1], the
conclusion was that the folders inside `tests` are related to the
framework running the tests and not directly related to the type of
the tests.
This changes the folder to `tests/avocado` and adjusts the MAKEFILE, the
CI related files and the documentation.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-05/msg06553.html
Reviewed-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211105155354.154864-3-willianr@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Jobs depending on another should not use the 'when: always'
condition, because if a dependency failed we should not keep
running jobs depending on it. The correct condition is
'when: on_success'.
Fixes: f56bf4caf7 ("gitlab: Run Avocado tests manually (except mainstream CI)")
Reported-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210727142431.1672530-3-philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Due to a design problem and misunderstanding between the Avocado
framework and QEMU, Avocado is fetching many asset artifacts it
shouldn't be fetching, exhausting the jobs CI timeout.
Since Avocado artifacts are cached, this is not an issue with old
forks, which already have populated the cache and do not need to
download new artifacts to run the tests.
However this is very confusing to new contributors who start to
fork the project and keep having failing CI pipelines.
As a temporary kludge, add the QEMU_CI_AVOCADO_TESTING variable
to allow old forks to keep running the Avocado tests, while still
allowing new forks to use the mainstream set of CI tests.
Keep the tests enabled by default on the mainstream namespace
which is old enough to have a populated cache, hoping we will
keep this cache long enough until the Avocado/QEMU design issue
is fixed.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210525082556.4011380-9-f4bug@amsat.org>
Sometimes pull requests are merged during the week-end, triggering
a CI pipeline. Currently if such pipeline fails, the Avocado reports
are available for 2 days. For the reviewers working on the project
during office hours, the reports are already discarded when they
want to look at them. Increase this time to 1 week, which should
give reviewers enough time.
Only keep the reports on failure, which is the only case we'll
look at them.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210525082556.4011380-8-f4bug@amsat.org>
To be able to reuse the mainstream build/test jobs templates,
extract them into a new file (buildtest-template.yml).
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210519185504.2198573-8-f4bug@amsat.org>
[thuth: Keep the "acceptance_test_job_template" name for now]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
