Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci: Fix the build-cfi-aarch64 and build-cfi-ppc64-s390x jobs

[Alex Bennée]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> The job definitions recently got a second "variables:" section by
> accident and thus are failing now if one tries to run them. Merge
> the two sections into one again to fix the issue.
>
> And while we're at it, bump the timeout here (70 minutes are currently
> not enough for the aarch64 job). The jobs are marked as manual anyway,
> so if the user starts them, they want to see their result for sure and
> then it's annoying if the job timeouts too early.
>
> Fixes: e312d1fdbb ("gitlab: convert build/container jobs to 
> .base_job_template")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  I wonder whether we should remove the build-cfi-aarch64 job instead.
>  When I tried to run it during the past months, it was always failing
>  for me. This time, I tried to bump the timeout while I was at it,
>  and it takes longer than 80 minutes here to finish - so I asume
>  nobody ever ran this successfully in the last months... Is anybody
>  using this job at all? I think if we want to have CFI coverage here,
>  it should get replaced by a custom runner job that runs on a more
>  beefy machine... (the ppc64-s390x job is fine by the way, it often
>  only runs a little bit longer than 60 minutes - I still bumped the
>  timeout here, too, just to be on the safe side)
>
>  .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 22 ++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> index ecac3ec50c..baaa0ebb87 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> @@ -355,16 +355,15 @@ build-cfi-aarch64:
>        --enable-safe-stack --enable-slirp=git
>      TARGETS: aarch64-softmmu
>      MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-build
> -  timeout: 70m
> -  artifacts:
> -    expire_in: 2 days
> -    paths:
> -      - build
> -  variables:
>      # FIXME: This job is often failing, likely due to out-of-memory problems 
> in
>      # the constrained containers of the shared runners. Thus this is marked 
> as
>      # skipped until the situation has been solved.
>      QEMU_JOB_SKIPPED: 1
> +  timeout: 90m
> +  artifacts:
> +    expire_in: 2 days
> +    paths:
> +      - build
>  
>  check-cfi-aarch64:
>    extends: .native_test_job_template
> @@ -396,16 +395,15 @@ build-cfi-ppc64-s390x:
>        --enable-safe-stack --enable-slirp=git
>      TARGETS: ppc64-softmmu s390x-softmmu
>      MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-build
> -  timeout: 70m
> -  artifacts:
> -    expire_in: 2 days
> -    paths:
> -      - build
> -  variables:
>      # FIXME: This job is often failing, likely due to out-of-memory problems 
> in
>      # the constrained containers of the shared runners. Thus this is marked 
> as
>      # skipped until the situation has been solved.
>      QEMU_JOB_SKIPPED: 1
> +  timeout: 80m
> +  artifacts:
> +    expire_in: 2 days
> +    paths:
> +      - build
>  
>  check-cfi-ppc64-s390x:
>    extends: .native_test_job_template

Queued to testing/next, thanks.

-- 
Alex Bennée