Re: [PATCH] travis.yml: enable linux-gcc-debug-tcg cache

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> writes:

> On 10/24/19 6:06 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Create a new cache for the --enable-debug-tcg builds which is separate
>> from the normal debug builds which generate different code. We also
>> enable debug-tcg for the new plugins based builds as we want to ensure
>> any breakage to TCG is picked up by the sanity checks.
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>   .travis.yml | 14 +++++++-------
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>> index e3f10a93683..34bc8134f5b 100644
>> --- a/.travis.yml
>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>> @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ matrix:
>>       # TCG debug can be run just on its own and is mostly agnostic to user/softmmu distinctions
>>       - env:
>>           - CONFIG="--enable-debug-tcg --disable-system"
>> -        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-debug"
>> +        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-debug-tcg"
>
> This one runs default TEST_CMD="make check -j3 V=1"

That does exercise the TCG a little because the various qemu-system-FOO
builds have some bootcode. However given we exercise the TCG more
further down we could just drop this matrix entry.

>
>>
>>       - env:
>> @@ -336,29 +336,29 @@ matrix:
>>       - env:
>>           - CONFIG="--disable-system --enable-debug-tcg"
>>           - TEST_CMD="make -j3 check-tcg V=1"
>
> And this one "check-tcg", OK.
> (Maybe we can reorder the $CONFIG arguments so both jobs are more similar).
>
> Too bad Travis 'stages' are an enterprise feature:
>
> https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/conditional-builds-stages-jobs/#conditional-stages
>
> Because here we are building 2x the same, and cache isn't used.

Why isn't the cache used?

>
> Not this patch problem.
>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>
>> -        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>> +        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-debug-tcg"
>>
>>       # Run check-tcg against linux-user (with plugins)
>>       # we skip sparc64-linux-user until it has been fixed somewhat
>>       - env:
>> -        - CONFIG="--disable-system --enable-plugins --target-list-exclude=sparc64-linux-user"
>> +        - CONFIG="--disable-system --enable-plugins --enable-debug-tcg --target-list-exclude=sparc64-linux-user"
>>           - TEST_CMD="make -j3 check-tcg V=1"
>> -        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>> +        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-debug-tcg"
>>
>>       # Run check-tcg against softmmu targets
>>       - env:
>>           - CONFIG="--enable-debug-tcg --target-list=xtensa-softmmu,arm-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu,alpha-softmmu"
>>           - TEST_CMD="make -j3 check-tcg V=1"
>> -        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>> +        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-debug-tcg"
>>
>>       # Run check-tcg against softmmu targets (with plugins)
>>       - env:
>> -        - CONFIG="--enable-plugins --target-list=xtensa-softmmu,arm-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu,alpha-softmmu"
>> +        - CONFIG="--enable-plugins --enable-debug-tcg --target-list=xtensa-softmmu,arm-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu,alpha-softmmu"
>>           - TEST_CMD="make -j3 check-tcg V=1"
>> -        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>> +        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-debug-tcg"
>>
>>       # Release builds
>>


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Alex Bennée