[PATCH] CI: Stop building QEMU in general

Andrew Cooper posted 1 patch 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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git fetch https://gitlab.com/xen-project/patchew/xen tags/patchew/20241008155023.2571517-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml       |  1 +
automation/scripts/build              |  7 ++-----
automation/scripts/qemu-deps-check.py | 19 -------------------
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
delete mode 100755 automation/scripts/qemu-deps-check.py
[PATCH] CI: Stop building QEMU in general
Posted by Andrew Cooper 2 months, 2 weeks ago
We spend an awful lot of CI time building QEMU, even though most changes don't
touch the subset of tools/libs/ used by QEMU.  Some numbers taken at a time
when CI was otherwise quiet:

                       With     Without
  Alpine:              13m38s   6m04s
  Debian 12:           10m05s   8m10s
  OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: 11m40s   7m54s
  Ubuntu 24.04:        14m56s   8m06s

which is a >50% improvement in wallclock time in some cases.

The only build we have that needs QEMU is alpine-3.18-gcc-debug.  This is the
build deployed and used by the QubesOS ADL-* and Zen3p-* jobs.

Xilinx-x86_64 deploys it too, but is PVH-only and doesn't use QEMU.

QEMU is also built by CirrusCI for FreeBSD (fully Clang/LLVM toolchain).

This should help quite a lot with Gitlab CI capacity.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
---
CC: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
CC: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
CC: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
CC: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>

I did consider putting in a build of QEMU on arm64 for good measure, but I
can't find any build job which currently does; none of the arm64 containers
have ninja by the looks of things.

Run with this patch in place:
  https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/sstabellini/xen/-/pipelines/1486822209
---
 automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml       |  1 +
 automation/scripts/build              |  7 ++-----
 automation/scripts/qemu-deps-check.py | 19 -------------------
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100755 automation/scripts/qemu-deps-check.py

diff --git a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
index c668736bdc2f..c83e0bdbe119 100644
--- a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
+++ b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ alpine-3.18-gcc-debug:
   extends: .gcc-x86-64-build-debug
   variables:
     CONTAINER: alpine:3.18
+    QEMU: y
 
 debian-bookworm-gcc-debug:
   extends: .gcc-x86-64-build-debug
diff --git a/automation/scripts/build b/automation/scripts/build
index 34416297a4b7..926cf5b46d17 100755
--- a/automation/scripts/build
+++ b/automation/scripts/build
@@ -91,11 +91,8 @@ else
         cfgargs+=("--with-extra-qemuu-configure-args=\"--disable-werror\"")
     fi
 
-    # Qemu requires Python 3.8 or later, and ninja
-    # and Clang 10 or later
-    if ! type python3 || ! python3 automation/scripts/qemu-deps-check.py \
-            || [[ "$cc_is_clang" == y && "$cc_ver" -lt 0x0a0000 ]] \
-            || ! type ninja; then
+    # QEMU is only for those who ask
+    if [[ "$QEMU" != "y" ]]; then
         cfgargs+=("--with-system-qemu=/bin/false")
     fi
 
diff --git a/automation/scripts/qemu-deps-check.py b/automation/scripts/qemu-deps-check.py
deleted file mode 100755
index f6188afb3e2a..000000000000
--- a/automation/scripts/qemu-deps-check.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-import sys
-
-if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
-    print("Python %d.%d.%d too old" %
-          (sys.version_info.major,
-           sys.version_info.minor,
-           sys.version_info.micro))
-    exit(1)
-
-try:
-    import tomllib
-except ImportError:
-    try:
-        import tomli
-    except ImportError:
-        print("No tomli")
-        exit(1)
-- 
2.39.5


Re: [PATCH] CI: Stop building QEMU in general
Posted by Anthony PERARD 2 months, 2 weeks ago
On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 04:50:23PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> diff --git a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
> index c668736bdc2f..c83e0bdbe119 100644
> --- a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
> +++ b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
> @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ alpine-3.18-gcc-debug:
>    extends: .gcc-x86-64-build-debug
>    variables:
>      CONTAINER: alpine:3.18
> +    QEMU: y

Could you use a different name for the variable? This is exposed as an
environment variable, it could easily be used in a build system already,
like used to store a path to a QEMU to use.

We don't really have a name space for CI variable, but maybe
BUILD_QEMU or BUILD_QEMU_XEN would be less likely to clash with other
usages.

Otherwise patch looks fine.

Cheers,

-- 

Anthony Perard | Vates XCP-ng Developer

XCP-ng & Xen Orchestra - Vates solutions

web: https://vates.tech
Re: [PATCH] CI: Stop building QEMU in general
Posted by Andrew Cooper 2 months, 2 weeks ago
On 08/10/2024 5:27 pm, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 04:50:23PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> diff --git a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
>> index c668736bdc2f..c83e0bdbe119 100644
>> --- a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
>> +++ b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
>> @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ alpine-3.18-gcc-debug:
>>    extends: .gcc-x86-64-build-debug
>>    variables:
>>      CONTAINER: alpine:3.18
>> +    QEMU: y
> Could you use a different name for the variable? This is exposed as an
> environment variable, it could easily be used in a build system already,
> like used to store a path to a QEMU to use.
>
> We don't really have a name space for CI variable, but maybe
> BUILD_QEMU or BUILD_QEMU_XEN would be less likely to clash with other
> usages.
>
> Otherwise patch looks fine.

A can switch to BUILD_QEMU, but I don't plan to repost just for that.

~Andrew
Re: [PATCH] CI: Stop building QEMU in general
Posted by Stefano Stabellini 2 months, 2 weeks ago
On Tue, 8 Oct 2024, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 08/10/2024 5:27 pm, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 04:50:23PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >> diff --git a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
> >> index c668736bdc2f..c83e0bdbe119 100644
> >> --- a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
> >> +++ b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
> >> @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ alpine-3.18-gcc-debug:
> >>    extends: .gcc-x86-64-build-debug
> >>    variables:
> >>      CONTAINER: alpine:3.18
> >> +    QEMU: y
> > Could you use a different name for the variable? This is exposed as an
> > environment variable, it could easily be used in a build system already,
> > like used to store a path to a QEMU to use.
> >
> > We don't really have a name space for CI variable, but maybe
> > BUILD_QEMU or BUILD_QEMU_XEN would be less likely to clash with other
> > usages.
> >
> > Otherwise patch looks fine.
> 
> A can switch to BUILD_QEMU, but I don't plan to repost just for that.

The patch is fine.

BUILD_QEMU is a bit better. BUILD_QEMU_XEN or BUILD_QEMU_DM would be
even better to clarify we are building a QEMU version to serve as device
model. It is a pity that typically we call qemu-dm the ancient QEMU
fork because "qemu device model" is more meaningful than "qemu xen".

Anyway, pick your preference and feel free to change the variable name
on commit.

Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Re: [PATCH] CI: Stop building QEMU in general
Posted by Andrew Cooper 2 months, 2 weeks ago
On 08/10/2024 7:54 pm, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 08/10/2024 5:27 pm, Anthony PERARD wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 04:50:23PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
>>>> index c668736bdc2f..c83e0bdbe119 100644
>>>> --- a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
>>>> +++ b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
>>>> @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ alpine-3.18-gcc-debug:
>>>>    extends: .gcc-x86-64-build-debug
>>>>    variables:
>>>>      CONTAINER: alpine:3.18
>>>> +    QEMU: y
>>> Could you use a different name for the variable? This is exposed as an
>>> environment variable, it could easily be used in a build system already,
>>> like used to store a path to a QEMU to use.
>>>
>>> We don't really have a name space for CI variable, but maybe
>>> BUILD_QEMU or BUILD_QEMU_XEN would be less likely to clash with other
>>> usages.
>>>
>>> Otherwise patch looks fine.
>> A can switch to BUILD_QEMU, but I don't plan to repost just for that.
> The patch is fine.
>
> BUILD_QEMU is a bit better. BUILD_QEMU_XEN or BUILD_QEMU_DM would be
> even better to clarify we are building a QEMU version to serve as device
> model. It is a pity that typically we call qemu-dm the ancient QEMU
> fork because "qemu device model" is more meaningful than "qemu xen".
>
> Anyway, pick your preference and feel free to change the variable name
> on commit.
>
> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>

Thanks.  I think I'll go with BUILD_QEMU_XEN because that what the rest
of Xen's build system calls the thing being discussed here.

~Andrew