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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/buildman')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/buildman/README | 42 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/buildman/builder.py | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/buildman/builderthread.py | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/buildman/cmdline.py | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/buildman/control.py | 4 |
5 files changed, 73 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/tools/buildman/README b/tools/buildman/README index 4705d2644b8..26755c5955e 100644 --- a/tools/buildman/README +++ b/tools/buildman/README @@ -898,6 +898,48 @@ when using the -b flag. For example: will build commits in us-buildman that are not in upstream/master. +Building Faster +=============== + +By default, buildman executes 'make mrproper' prior to building the first +commit for each board. This causes everything to be built from scratch. If you +trust the build system's incremental build capabilities, you can pass the -I +flag to skip the 'make mproper' invocation, which will reduce the amount of +work 'make' does, and hence speed up the build. This flag will speed up any +buildman invocation, since it reduces the amount of work done on any build. + +One possible application of buildman is as part of a continual edit, build, +edit, build, ... cycle; repeatedly applying buildman to the same change or +series of changes while making small incremental modifications to the source +each time. This provides quick feedback regarding the correctness of recent +modifications. In this scenario, buildman's default choice of build directory +causes more build work to be performed than strictly necessary. + +By default, each buildman thread uses a single directory for all builds. When a +thread builds multiple boards, the configuration built in this directory will +cycle through various different configurations, one per board built by the +thread. Variations in the configuration will force a rebuild of affected source +files when a thread switches between boards. Ideally, such buildman-induced +rebuilds would not happen, thus allowing the build to operate as efficiently as +the build system and source changes allow. buildman's -P flag may be used to +enable this; -P causes each board to be built in a separate (board-specific) +directory, thus avoiding any buildman-induced configuration changes in any +build directory. + +U-Boot's build system embeds information such as a build timestamp into the +final binary. This information varies each time U-Boot is built. This causes +various files to be rebuilt even if no source changes are made, which in turn +requires that the final U-Boot binary be re-linked. This unnecessary work can +be avoided by turning off the timestamp feature. This can be achieved by +setting the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable to 0. + +Combining all of these options together yields the command-line shown below. +This will provide the quickest possible feedback regarding the current content +of the source tree, thus allowing rapid tested evolution of the code. + + SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 ./tools/buildman/buildman -I -P tegra + + Other options ============= diff --git a/tools/buildman/builder.py b/tools/buildman/builder.py index 141bf646913..8ec35517290 100644 --- a/tools/buildman/builder.py +++ b/tools/buildman/builder.py @@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ class Builder: def __init__(self, toolchains, base_dir, git_dir, num_threads, num_jobs, gnu_make='make', checkout=True, show_unknown=True, step=1, - no_subdirs=False, full_path=False, verbose_build=False): + no_subdirs=False, full_path=False, verbose_build=False, + incremental=False, per_board_out_dir=False): """Create a new Builder object Args: @@ -224,6 +225,10 @@ class Builder: full_path: Return the full path in CROSS_COMPILE and don't set PATH verbose_build: Run build with V=1 and don't use 'make -s' + incremental: Always perform incremental builds; don't run make + mrproper when configuring + per_board_out_dir: Build in a separate persistent directory per + board rather than a thread-specific directory """ self.toolchains = toolchains self.base_dir = base_dir @@ -263,7 +268,8 @@ class Builder: self.queue = Queue.Queue() self.out_queue = Queue.Queue() for i in range(self.num_threads): - t = builderthread.BuilderThread(self, i) + t = builderthread.BuilderThread(self, i, incremental, + per_board_out_dir) t.setDaemon(True) t.start() self.threads.append(t) diff --git a/tools/buildman/builderthread.py b/tools/buildman/builderthread.py index cf25bb8f1a7..c512d3b521f 100644 --- a/tools/buildman/builderthread.py +++ b/tools/buildman/builderthread.py @@ -80,11 +80,13 @@ class BuilderThread(threading.Thread): thread_num: Our thread number (0-n-1), used to decide on a temporary directory """ - def __init__(self, builder, thread_num): + def __init__(self, builder, thread_num, incremental, per_board_out_dir): """Set up a new builder thread""" threading.Thread.__init__(self) self.builder = builder self.thread_num = thread_num + self.incremental = incremental + self.per_board_out_dir = per_board_out_dir def Make(self, commit, brd, stage, cwd, *args, **kwargs): """Run 'make' on a particular commit and board. @@ -136,7 +138,11 @@ class BuilderThread(threading.Thread): if self.builder.in_tree: out_dir = work_dir else: - out_dir = os.path.join(work_dir, 'build') + if self.per_board_out_dir: + out_rel_dir = os.path.join('..', brd.target) + else: + out_rel_dir = 'build' + out_dir = os.path.join(work_dir, out_rel_dir) # Check if the job was already completed last time done_file = self.builder.GetDoneFile(commit_upto, brd.target) @@ -197,12 +203,12 @@ class BuilderThread(threading.Thread): # # Symlinks can confuse U-Boot's Makefile since # we may use '..' in our path, so remove them. - work_dir = os.path.realpath(work_dir) - args.append('O=%s/build' % work_dir) + out_dir = os.path.realpath(out_dir) + args.append('O=%s' % out_dir) cwd = None src_dir = os.getcwd() else: - args.append('O=build') + args.append('O=%s' % out_rel_dir) if self.builder.verbose_build: args.append('V=1') else: @@ -215,9 +221,11 @@ class BuilderThread(threading.Thread): # If we need to reconfigure, do that now if do_config: - result = self.Make(commit, brd, 'mrproper', cwd, - 'mrproper', *args, env=env) - config_out = result.combined + config_out = '' + if not self.incremental: + result = self.Make(commit, brd, 'mrproper', cwd, + 'mrproper', *args, env=env) + config_out += result.combined result = self.Make(commit, brd, 'config', cwd, *(args + config_args), env=env) config_out += result.combined diff --git a/tools/buildman/cmdline.py b/tools/buildman/cmdline.py index 8341ab145cf..3e3bd63e32c 100644 --- a/tools/buildman/cmdline.py +++ b/tools/buildman/cmdline.py @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ def ParseArgs(): parser.add_option('-i', '--in-tree', dest='in_tree', action='store_true', default=False, help='Build in the source tree instead of a separate directory') + parser.add_option('-I', '--incremental', action='store_true', + default=False, help='Do not run make mrproper (when reconfiguring)') parser.add_option('-j', '--jobs', dest='jobs', type='int', default=None, help='Number of jobs to run at once (passed to make)') parser.add_option('-k', '--keep-outputs', action='store_true', @@ -70,6 +72,8 @@ def ParseArgs(): default=False, help='Do a rough build, with limited warning resolution') parser.add_option('-p', '--full-path', action='store_true', default=False, help="Use full toolchain path in CROSS_COMPILE") + parser.add_option('-P', '--per-board-out-dir', action='store_true', + default=False, help="Use an O= (output) directory per board rather than per thread") parser.add_option('-s', '--summary', action='store_true', default=False, help='Show a build summary') parser.add_option('-S', '--show-sizes', action='store_true', diff --git a/tools/buildman/control.py b/tools/buildman/control.py index c2c54bf0e81..aeb128a6a3e 100644 --- a/tools/buildman/control.py +++ b/tools/buildman/control.py @@ -250,7 +250,9 @@ def DoBuildman(options, args, toolchains=None, make_func=None, boards=None, options.threads, options.jobs, gnu_make=gnu_make, checkout=True, show_unknown=options.show_unknown, step=options.step, no_subdirs=options.no_subdirs, full_path=options.full_path, - verbose_build=options.verbose_build) + verbose_build=options.verbose_build, + incremental=options.incremental, + per_board_out_dir=options.per_board_out_dir,) builder.force_config_on_failure = not options.quick if make_func: builder.do_make = make_func |