Re: Merging problems

Bruce Ashfield
2014-12-22T03:40:02Z

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 11:27 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 21:04 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> > On 2014-12-20 5:40 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> > > On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 10:13 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> > >> On 2014-12-20 6:15 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> > >>> So where are we at?
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Thanks to some great help from Ross, we have a number of patches merged
>> > >>> and many of the issues in my last email have been addressed. I'm
>> > >>> continuing to struggle with the kernel series. The last build on the
>> > >>> autobuilder highlighted that:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> * there are problems in boot-directdisk.bbclass (have a fix)
>> > >>> * there is a do_rootfs/do_package_qa race (have a fix)
>> > >>> * the report-error.bbclass tasks could crash (have a fix)
>> > >>> * the kernelmodule sanity tests were failing (have a fix)
>> > >>> * qemumips gdb is failing to compile, probably due to new kernel
>> > >>> headers (no fix as yet)
>> > >>> * systemd sanity QA tests continue to fail on xorg and systemd-login
>> > >>> (no fix as yet)
>> > >>> * there are continuing problems with linux-imx from meta-fsl-arm, I
>> > >>> thought these were addressed but clearly not :(
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Ideally I'd like to take some time off over the holidays but I can't see
>> > >>> that happening until the patch queues are under some kind of control :(.
>> > >>
>> > >> Let me know if there are one of these that you want me to take. I'm all
>> > >> for pitching in and getting everyone some down time.
>> > >
>> > > Looks like I spoke too soon:
>> > >
>> > > https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-x86/builds/132/steps/BuildImages_1/logs/stdio
>> >
>> > Amazing how those race conditions pop out on the builders .. I probably
>> > built this 100 times, and never managed to trigger these.
>>
>> We also have one more:
>>
>> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-ppc/builds/134/steps/Running%20Sanity%20Tests/logs/stdio
>>
>> On target module building for ppc fails.
>>
>> > > which seems to be a race over the kernel source directory. I'm guessing
>> > > the file in question is a temporary build artefact of lttng-modules
>> > > which was running at the same time? Any way we can avoid temp files in
>> > > the kernel source dir?
>> >
>> > Hmm. The modules should already have their output directory set to their
>> > own source (not the kernel), so they really shouldn't be dropping down
>> > any temp files.
>> >
>> > I was only using the cpio method to copy the source since that is what
>> > was already being used .. and it is a bit faster. The stat of the
>> > files to the pipe is what is catching us here.
>> >
>> > The question is .. do we really care ? A straight copy of the files wouldn't
>> > be so sensitive to this, or we could explicitly exclude then in the
>> > existing cpio pipe. That would buy some time to track down what is
>> > touching down the tmp file in the kernel build process, and I can't see
>> > how the dual use of that staged directory will cause us a problem on
>> > the copied kernel source side (we do clean things up before packaging).
>>
>> Well, I think we need to get to the bottom of this. I made some
>> experiments. The best results were from hacking scripts/Kbuild.include
>> where these .tmp files get created, I hacked it not to remove them.
>>
>> When you do that, it becomes clear that do_make_scripts is the task
>> which is causing the problem.
>>
>> The world has changed since we last visited the scripts problem, we
>> could move that task to the main kernel build now and have the modules
>> and kernel-devsrc depend on it? The function in module.bbclass would
>> then become a placeholder?
>
> After a lot of trail and error I've sent out a couple of patches for the
> above two issues. These fix the immediate problems however I think there
> is more cleanup than needs to be done early next year.

I replied out of order. I should have read this first. :)

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> I filed:
>
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7095

I'll grab that.

>
> since the overlap between kernel-dev and kernel-devsrc is problematic
> and should get resolved. This may help resolve the powerpc problem in a
> nicer way if devsrc is *just* the source and dev has some artefacts like
> the build config. It may be we have a separate package for the artefacts
> too, I'm open to ideas.

It's a possibility. I'll throw together some ideas here as well.

Bruce

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> I did start to experiment with cleaning up the scripts handling in the
> build tree:
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/t222&id=760fa19a11165ff02c5df38cc89335fc503afba2
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> I have mixed feelings about it that, we really do need to try and do
> something about it though.
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> Cheers,
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> Richard
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