Re: [PATCH 5/8] gen-pert-test: parallel build support

Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-25T23:21:12Z

On Saturday, July 25 2015, Patrick Palka wrote:

>>> This patch seems to have caused a number of regressions:
>>>
>>> http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Fedora-x86_64-m64/builds/1502
>>> http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Fedora-x86_64-m32/builds/1501
>>> http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Fedora-i686/builds/1510
>>>
>>> (possibly among others)
>>>
>>> Reverting this patch locally makes the regressions disappear for me,
>>> at least on x86_64-m64.
>>
>> I can't repro this.
>> It's odd that this patch would cause these particular regressions:
>>
>> http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Fedora-x86_64-m32/builds/1501/steps/regressions/logs/regressions
>>
>> http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Fedora-x86_64-m64/builds/1502/steps/regressions/logs/regressions
>>
>> Also, I don't understand this one:
>>
>> http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Debian-x86_64-m64/builds/1420
>>
>> I can imagine makefile hacking for the perf tests breaking normal make check,
>> but then I'd expect the damage to be far more extensive, but the patch
>> reported in 1420 cannot have caused those regressions.
>
> In this case, the regressions listed for build 1420 originated from build 1417:
>
> http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Debian-x86_64-m64/builds/1417
>
> The baseline for checking for regressions is not the build before, but
> rather it's a "rolling" baseline or something like that.

Sorry, as it turns out I found a bug in the way BuildBot calculated the
regressions for the current build. Unfortunately it wasn't correctly
updating the previous_gdb.sum file, which is used to directly calculate
the regressions against the last build. The bug has been fixed now; it
has been introduced a few days ago, so not many builds have been
compromised. Also, the regressions reported *were* valid; the only
problem was that they were being reported over and over for every build.

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