Re: [PATCH] Provide Solaris 11 buildbots

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>]

On Thursday, September 20 2018, Rainer Orth wrote:

> Hi Sergio,
>
>> On Wednesday, September 19 2018, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>
>>> If the proposed Solaris 11 buildbots
>>>
>>> 	https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2018-09/msg00004.html
>>
>> Thanks for the offer, and for the patch!
>>
>> IMO, "the more the merrier".  So yeah, Solaris 11 buildslaves are
>> absolutely welcome.
>
> great.  It will save me the trouble of detecting post-factum when some
> patch broke the Solaris build ;-)

Yeah, that's currently the main feature being used in our BuildBot: the
breakage emails.

>>> * The buildslaves are configured to be compile-only at the moment: at
>>>   -j4, a build takes ca. 15 minutes, while make check takes 1h 15 due to
>>>   many timeouts (mostly in gdb.threads).  Until those are resolved, it's
>>>   probably useless to run the tests.
>>
>> Right.  Until I implement a way to enable only a subset of tests from
>> our testsuite, I agree that it's not a good idea to have builds taking
>> that long to finish.
>
> While I could perhaps increase the degree of parallelism, even full -j16
> or -j48 builds on my regular build systems take about 5 minutes to
> compile, but about half an hour to test, which is still way too long
> compared to e.g. a Linux/x86_64 build/test cycle.
>
> I suspect that those timeouts are due to a handful of root causes; once
> those are fixed, it should be possible to enable the tests, too.

Right.

>>> * I couldn't find proper documentation for at least two fields:
>>>
>>> ** arch in config.json (slaves), seems to be unused AFAICT
>>>
>>> ** tags in config.json (builders)
>>
>> Sorry about that.
>>
>> The "arch" field is indeed unused.  The initial plan was to use it to
>> offer some filtering capabilities in the web interface, but that's been
>> replaced by "tags".
>>
>> The "tags" filter is just a collection of tags that are used to
>> categorize the builders.  If you go to
>> <https://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/waterfall>, at the top of the page
>> you'll see a "Tags:" header, with a bunch of tags.  You can use them to
>> selectively display just the builders associated with a certain tag.
>> For example, if you want to list the x86_64 builders, you'd go to
>> <https://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/waterfall?tag=x86_64>.
>
> Ah, I see.  Probably something to add to the wiki ;-)

Yeah, absolutely.  I'll do that.

>> There are two "special" tags: "MAIL" and "TEST".  When a builder is
>> marked as "MAIL", the BuildBot master will send e-mail notifications
>> about it to gdb-testers/gdb-patches.  If it's marked as "TEST", then all
>> e-mail notifications are supressed.  I just mark a builder as "TEST" if
>> it proves to unstable (i.e., when GDB fails to compile on it because of
>> some problem with the builder itself).  I think it makes sense to mark
>> your builders as "MAIL", since they're relatively stable, from what you
>> said.
>
> That's the intent: the hosts (global zones in Solaris lingo) are among
> my main (or only in case of the sparc box) development machines, so I'll
> keep them up and running for that reason alone ;-)
>
> The global zones are running current Solaris 11.5 Beta builds, and thus
> will be upgraded/rebooted biweekly.  The kernel zones which host the
> build slaves are on Solaris 11.4, with the intent of upgrading to the
> latest SRU (support repository upgrade; collection of patches tested
> together) once a month.  Apart from those planned downtimes (reboots in
> the order of minutes), the systems have been rock solid.

Cool.  Reboots are fine, as long as (as you said below) the buildslaves
reconnect automatically.

>> I'll have to contact you in private in order to give the password
>> necessary for connection to the BuildBot master.  I'll also apply your
>> patch now and enable the builders, so all it's left for you is to start
>> them on your side.
>
> That's has happened now, and both are registered with the master, though
> they haven't run any builds yet.  I'll wait a bit until this has
> completed successfully, then turn the buildslave start into a service so
> they are automatically restarted on failure and rerun at boot.

Thank you for contributing!

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