One use-case for buildman is to continually run it interactively after
each small step in a large refactoring operation. This gives more
immediate feedback than making a number of commits and then going back and
testing them. For this to work well, buildman needs to be extremely fast.
At present, a couple issues prevent it being as fast as it could be:
1) Each time buildman runs "make %_defconfig", it runs "make mrproper"
first. This throws away all previous build results, requiring a
from-scratch build. Optionally avoiding this would speed up the build, at
the cost of potentially causing or missing some build issues.
2) A build tree is created per thread rather than per board. When a thread
switches between building different boards, this often causes many files
to be rebuilt due to changing config options. Using a separate build tree
for each board would avoid this. This does put more strain on the system's
disk cache, but it is worth it on my system at least.
This commit adds two command-line options to implement the changes
described above; -I ("--incremental") turns of "make mrproper" and -P
("--per-board-out-dir") creats a build directory per board rather than per
thread.
Tested:
./tools/buildman/buildman.py tegra
./tools/buildman/buildman.py -I -P tegra
./tools/buildman/buildman.py -b tegra_dev tegra
./tools/buildman/buildman.py -b tegra_dev -I -P tegra
... each once after deleting the buildman result/work directory, and once
"incrementally" after a previous identical invocation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> # v1
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> # v1
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is convenient to install symlinks to buildman and patman in the search
patch, such as /usr/local/bin. But when this is done, the -H option fails to
work because it looks in the directory containing the symlink instead of its
target. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
It is useful to be able to see CONFIG changes made by commits. Add this
feature to buildman using the -K flag so that all CONFIG changes are
reported.
The CONFIG options exist in a number of files. Each is reported
individually as well as a summary that covers all files. The output
shows three parts: green for additions, red for removals and yellow for
changes.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Normally buildman runs with 'make -s' meaning that only errors and warnings
appear in the log file. Add a -V option to run make in verbose mode, and
with V=1, causing a full build log to be created.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The site at https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ is a convenient
repository of toolchains which can be used for U-Boot. Add a feature to
download and install a toolchain for a selected architecture automatically.
It isn't clear how long this site will stay in the current place and
format, but we should be able to rely on bug reports if it changes.
Suggested-by: Marek Vašut <marex@denx.de>
Suggested-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
In some cases there may be multiple toolchains with the same name in the
path. Provide an option to use the full path in the CROSS_COMPILE
environment variable.
Note: Wolfgang mentioned that this is dangerous since in some cases there
may be other tools on the path that are needed. So this is set up as an
option, not the default. I will need test confirmation (i.e. that this
commit fixes a real problem) before merging it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Steve Rae <srae@broadcom.com>
Adjust the -b flag to permit a range expression as well as a branch.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com>
When running tests the output directory is often wiped. This is only safe if
a branch is being built. The output directory may contain other things
besides the buildman test output.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When building current source for a single board, buildman puts the output
in <output_dir>/current/current/<board>. Add an option to make it use
<output_dir>/<board> instead. This removes the unnecessary directories
in that case, controlled by the --no-subdirs/-N option.
Suggested-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Buildman normally obtains the upstream commit by asking git. Provided that
the branch was created with 'git checkout -b <branch> <some_upstream>' then
this normally works.
When there is no upstream, we can try to guess one, by looking up through
the commits until we find a branch. Add a function to try this and print
a warning if buildman ends up relying on it.
Also update the documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Buildman currently puts current-source builds in a current/current
subdirectory, but there is no need for the extra depth.
Suggested-by: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When using summary mode (-s) we don't always want to display errors.
Allow this option to be omitted.
Series-to: u-boot
Series-cc: albert
Change-Id: I6b37754d55eb920ecae114fceba55834b43ea3b9
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
This check should now be done whatever mode buildman is running in, since
we may be displaying information while building.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tags like Series-version are normally expected to appear once, and with a
unique value. But buildman doesn't actually look at these tags. So ignore
conflicts.
This allows bulidman to build a branch containing multiple patman series.
Reported-by: Steve Rae <srae@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present buildman naively uses the branch name as part of its directory
path, which causes problems if the name has an embedded '/'.
Replace these with '_' to fix the problem.
Reported-by: Steve Rae <srae@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
For testing it is useful to clean the output directory before running a
test. This avoids a test interfering with the results of a subsequent
test by leaving data around.
Add this feature as an optional parameter to the control logic.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Rather than reading boards.cfg, which may take time to generate and is not
necessarily suitable for running tests, create our own list of boards.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Move the bsettings code back to the main buildman.py file, so we can do
something different when testing.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Buildman currently lacks testing in many areas, including its use of git,
make and many command-line flags.
Add a functional test which covers some of these areas. So far it does
a fake 'build' of all boards for the current source tree.
This version reads the real ~/.buildman and boards.cfg files. Future work
will improve this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add a -l option to display a list of offending boards against each
error/warning line. The information will be shown in brackets as below:
02: wip
sandbox: + sandbox
arm: + seaboard
+(sandbox) arch/sandbox/cpu/cpu.c: In function 'timer_get_us':
+(sandbox) arch/sandbox/cpu/cpu.c:40:9: warning: unused variable 'i' [-Wunused-variable]
+(seaboard) board/nvidia/seaboard/seaboard.c: In function 'pin_mux_mmc':
+(seaboard) board/nvidia/seaboard/seaboard.c:36:9: warning: unused variable 'fred' [-Wunused-variable]
+(seaboard) int fred;
+(seaboard) ^
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Some boards are known to be broken and it is convenient to be able to
exclude them from the build.
Add an --exclude option to specific boards to exclude. This uses the
same matching rules as the normal 'include' arguments, and is a comma-
separated list of regular expressions.
Suggested-by: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When buildman finds errors/warnings when building, set the return code to
indicate this.
Suggested-by: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This commit makes sure boards.cfg is up to date before starting
the build tests. tools/genboardscfg.py exits immediately printing
"boards.cfg is up to date. Nothing to do." when boards.cfg is
already new.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
In Python, sys.exit() function can also take an object other
than an integer.
If an integer is given to the argument, Python exits with the return
code of it. If a non-integer argument is given, Python outputs it
to stderr and exits with the return code of 1.
That means,
print >> sys.stderr, "Blah Blah"
sys.exit(1)
is equivalent to
sys.exit("Blah Blah")
The latter is a useful shorthand.
Note:
Some error messages in Buildman and Patman were output to stdout.
But they should go to stderr. They are also fixed by this commit.
This is a nice side effect.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is useful to be able to build only some of the commits in a branch. Add
support for the -c option to allow this. It was previously parsed by
buildman but not implemented.
Suggested-by: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
Add a new --config-file option (-G) to specify a different configuration
file from the default ~/.buildman.
Reported-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Normally buildman operates in two passes - one to do the build and another
to summarise the errors. Add a verbose option (-v) to display build problems
as they happen. With -e also given, this will display errors too.
When building the current source tree (rather than a list of commits in a
branch), both -v and -e are enabled automatically.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
We need the output options to be available in several places. It's a pain
to pass them into each function. Make them properties of the builder and
add a single function to set them up. At the same time, add a function which
produces summary output using these options.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Originally buildman had some support for building the current source tree.
However this was dropped before it was submitted, as part of the effort to
make it faster when building entire branches.
Reinstate this support. If no -b option is given, buildman will build the
current source tree.
Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Use "make <board>_defconfig" instead of "make <board>_config".
Invoke tools/genboardscfg.py to generate boards.cfg when it is missing.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Since the command name 'make' may not be GNU Make on some platforms
such as FreeBSD, buildman should call scripts/show-gnu-make to get
the command name for GNU MAKE (and error out if it is not found).
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl>
At present buildman always builds out-of-tree, that is it uses a separate
output directory from the source directory. Normally this is what you want,
but it is important that in-tree builds work also. Some Makefile changes may
break this.
Add a -i option to tell buildman to use in-tree builds, so that it is easy
to test this feature.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Normally buildman wil try to configure U-Boot for a particular board on the
first commit that it builds in a series. Subsequent commits are built
without reconfiguring which normally works. Where it doesn't, buildman
automatically reconfigures and retries.
To fully emulate the way MAKEALL works, we should have an option to disable
this optimisation.
Add a -C option to cause buildman to always reconfigure on each commit.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Generally a build failure with a particular commit cannot be fixed except
by changing that commit. Changing the commit will automatically cause
buildman to retry when you run it again: buildman sees that the commit
hash is different and that it has no previous build result for the new
commit hash.
However sometimes the build failure is due to a toolchain issue or some
other environment problem. In that case, retrying failed builds may yield
a different result.
Add a flag to retry failed builds. This differs from the force rebuild
flag (-f) in that it will not rebuild commits which are already marked as
succeeded.
Series-to: u-boot
Change-Id: Iac4306df499d65ff0888b1c60f06fc162a6faad8
Add an option to specify the output directory to override the
default path '../'. This is useful for building in a ramdisk.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Conflicting tags can prevent buildman from building two series which exist
one after the other in a branch. There is no reason not to allow this sort
of workflow with buildman, so ignore conflicting tags in buildman.
Change-Id: I2231d04d8684fe0f8fe77f8ea107e5899a3da5e8
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
This tool handles building U-Boot to check that you have not broken it
with your patch series. It can build each individual commit and report
which boards fail on which commits, and which errors come up. It also
shows differences in image sizes due to particular commits.
Buildman aims to make full use of multi-processor machines.
Documentation and caveats are in tools/buildman/README.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
