Re: [PATCH for-4.15] xen: Bump the minimum version of GCC supported to 4.9 (5.1 on arm64)

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 06/03/2021 23:04, no-reply@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Patchew automatically ran gitlab-ci pipeline with this patch (series)
> > applied, but the job failed. Maybe there's a bug in the patches?
> > 
> > You can find the link to the pipeline near the end of the report below:
> > 
> > Type: series
> > Message-id: 20210306214148.27021-1-julien@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [PATCH for-4.15] xen: Bump the minimum version of GCC supported to
> > 4.9 (5.1 on arm64)
> > 
> > === TEST SCRIPT BEGIN ===
> > #!/bin/bash
> > sleep 10
> > patchew gitlab-pipeline-check -p xen-project/patchew/xen
> > === TEST SCRIPT END ===
> > 
> > warning: redirecting to https://gitlab.com/xen-project/patchew/xen.git/
> > warning: redirecting to https://gitlab.com/xen-project/patchew/xen.git/
> >  From https://gitlab.com/xen-project/patchew/xen
> >   * [new tag]               patchew/20210306214148.27021-1-julien@xxxxxxx ->
> > patchew/20210306214148.27021-1-julien@xxxxxxx
> > Switched to a new branch 'test'
> > f332859b88 xen: Bump the minimum version of GCC supported to 4.9 (5.1 on
> > arm64)
> > 
> > === OUTPUT BEGIN ===
> > [2021-03-06 21:45:17] Looking up pipeline...
> > [2021-03-06 21:45:18] Found pipeline 266507477:
> > 
> > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/patchew/xen/-/pipelines/266507477
> > 
> > [2021-03-06 21:45:18] Waiting for pipeline to finish...
> > [2021-03-06 22:00:21] Still waiting...
> > [2021-03-06 22:15:26] Still waiting...
> > [2021-03-06 22:30:31] Still waiting...
> > [2021-03-06 22:45:35] Still waiting...
> > [2021-03-06 23:00:41] Still waiting...
> > [2021-03-06 23:04:42] Pipeline failed
> > [2021-03-06 23:04:42] Job 'qemu-smoke-x86-64-clang-pvh' in stage 'test' is
> > skipped
> > [2021-03-06 23:04:42] Job 'qemu-smoke-x86-64-gcc-pvh' in stage 'test' is
> > skipped
> > [2021-03-06 23:04:42] Job 'qemu-smoke-x86-64-clang' in stage 'test' is
> > skipped
> > [2021-03-06 23:04:42] Job 'qemu-smoke-x86-64-gcc' in stage 'test' is skipped
> > [2021-03-06 23:04:42] Job 'qemu-smoke-arm64-gcc' in stage 'test' is skipped
> > [2021-03-06 23:04:42] Job 'qemu-alpine-arm64-gcc' in stage 'test' is skipped
> > [2021-03-06 23:04:42] Job 'build-each-commit-gcc' in stage 'test' is skipped
> > [2021-03-06 23:04:42] Job 'alpine-3.12-clang' in stage 'build' is failed
> 
> The following jobs are failing:
> 
> alpine-3.12-clang [1]
> debian-unstable-32-gcc-debug
> debian-unstable-clang
> debian-unstable-gcc-randconfig
> ubuntu-bionic-clang
> 
> Cloning into 'qemu-xen-dir-remote.tmp'...
> error: inflate: data stream error (incorrect data check)
> fatal: serious inflate inconsistency
> fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> This looks unrelated to my patch. Possibly a network error?

Yeah.


> =========
> 
> centos-7-2-gcc [2]
> centos-7-2-gcc-debug
> centos-7-gcc
> centos-7-gcc-debug
> 
> Centos 7 is using GCC 4.8.5. This patch is bumping the minimum version to 4.9.
> So the failure is expected.
> 
> We may have to disable the jobs if my patch goes ahead. May I ask why we chose
> to build on Centos 7?

CentOS 7 is still the latest and it is maintained until 2024:

https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product

I don't have a lot of direct experience with x86 users any longer, but
this seems to be problematic?


> ==========
> 
> ubuntu-trusty-gcc [3]
> ubuntu-trusty-gcc-debug
> 
> Ubuntu trusty is using GCC 4.8.4. This patch is bumping the minimum version to
> 4.9. So the failure is expected. We may have to disable the jobs if my patch
> goes ahead. May I ask why we chose to build on Ubuntu trusty?

Ubuntu Trusty is in "Extended Security Maintenance", so technically
still supported also:

https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

 
> Cheers,
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.com/xen-project/patchew/xen/-/jobs/1078273595
> [2] https://gitlab.com/xen-project/patchew/xen/-/jobs/1078273539
> [3] https://gitlab.com/xen-project/patchew/xen/-/jobs/1078273575
> 
> 
> > === OUTPUT END ===
> > 
> > Test command exited with code: 1