Lit as it exists today has three hacks that allow users to run tests earlier:
1) An entire test suite can set the `is_early` boolean.
2) A very recently introduced "early_tests" feature.
3) The `--incremental` flag forces failing tests to run first.
All of these approaches have problems.
1) The `is_early` feature was until very recently undocumented. Nevertheless it still lacks testing and is a imprecise way of optimizing test starting times.
2) The `early_tests` feature requires manual updates and doesn't scale.
3) `--incremental` is undocumented, untested, and it requires modifying the *source* file system by "touching" the file. This "touch" based approach is arguably a hack because it confuses editors (because it looks like the test was modified behind the back of the editor) and "touching" the test source file doesn't work if the test suite is read only from the perspective of `lit` (via advanced filesystem/build tricks).
This patch attempts to simplify and address all of the above problems.
This patch formalizes, documents, tests, and defaults lit to recording the execution time of tests and then reordering all tests during the next execution. By reordering the tests, high core count machines run faster, sometimes significantly so.
This patch also always runs failing tests first, which is a positive user experience win for those that didn't know about the hidden `--incremental` flag.
Finally, if users want, they can _optionally_ commit the test timing data (or a subset thereof) back to the repository to accelerate bots and first-time runs of the test suite.
Reviewed By: jhenderson, yln
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98179
Multi-configuration generators (such as Visual Studio and Xcode) allow the specification of a build flavor at build time instead of config time, so the lit configuration files need to support that - and they do for the most part. There are several places that had one of two issues (or both!):
1) Paths had %(build_mode)s set up, but then not configured, resulting in values that would not work correctly e.g. D:/llvm-build/%(build_mode)s/bin/dsymutil.exe
2) Paths did not have %(build_mode)s set up, but instead contained $(Configuration) (which is the value for Visual Studio at configuration time, for Xcode they would have had the equivalent) e.g. "D:/llvm-build/$(Configuration)/lib".
This seems to indicate that we still have a lot of fragility in the configurations, but also that a number of these paths are never used (at least on Windows) since the errors appear to have been there a while.
This patch fixes the configurations and it has been tested with Ninja and Visual Studio to generate the correct paths. We should consider removing some of these settings altogether.
Reviewed By: JDevlieghere, mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96427
I broke bots last week and tried a few things to fix them.
These were attempts that didn't help, so back them back out.
This reverts commit c7aff9a109b611e4954a3055061a8076b4baa385.
This reverts commit 8838d6d3566d940859fd26b20aed4cb57d490988.
This reverts commit e875ba1509955dc4b3512d820edecc0da26fa38d.
The problem on Windows was that the \b in "..\bin" was interpreted
as an escape sequence. Use r"" strings to prevent that.
This reverts commit ab11b9eefa16661017c2c7b3b34c46b069f43fb7,
with raw strings in the lit.site.cfg.py.in files.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77184
Currently, all generated lit.site.cfg files contain absolute paths.
This makes it impossible to build on one machine, and then transfer the
build output to another machine for test execution. Being able to do
this is useful for several use cases:
1. When running tests on an ARM machine, it would be possible to build
on a fast x86 machine and then copy build artifacts over after building.
2. It allows running several test suites (clang, llvm, lld) on 3
different machines, reducing test time from sum(each test suite time) to
max(each test suite time).
This patch makes it possible to pass a list of variables that should be
relative in the generated lit.site.cfg.py file to
configure_lit_site_cfg(). The lit.site.cfg.py.in file needs to call
`path()` on these variables, so that the paths are converted to absolute
form at lit start time.
The testers would have to have an LLVM checkout at the same revision,
and the build dir would have to be at the same relative path as on the
builder.
This does not yet cover how to figure out which files to copy from the
builder machine to the tester machines. (One idea is to look at the
`--graphviz=test.dot` output and copy all inputs of the `check-llvm`
target.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77184
Propagate HOME environment variable to unittests. This is necessary
to fix test failures resulting from pw_home pointing to a non-existing
directory while being overriden with HOME. Apparently Gentoo users
hit this sometimes when they override build directory for Portage.
Original bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/674088
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56162
llvm-svn: 350175
Many editors and Python-related diagnostics tools such as
debuggers break or fail in mysterious ways when python files
don't end in .py. This is especially true on Windows, but
still exists on other platforms. I don't want to be too heavy
handed in changing everything across the board, but I do want
to at least *allow* lit configs to have .py extensions. This
patch makes the discovery process first look for a config file
with a .py extension, and if one is not found, then looks for
a config file using the old method. So for existing users, there
should be no functional change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37838
llvm-svn: 313849
This is a resubmission of r313270. It broke standalone builds of
compiler-rt because we were not correctly generating the llvm-lit
script in the standalone build directory.
The fixes incorporated here attempt to find llvm/utils/llvm-lit
from the source tree returned by llvm-config. If present, it
will generate llvm-lit into the output directory. Regardless,
the user can specify -DLLVM_EXTERNAL_LIT to point to a specific
lit.py on their file system. This supports the use case of
someone installing lit via a package manager. If it cannot find
a source tree, and -DLLVM_EXTERNAL_LIT is either unspecified or
invalid, then we print a warning that tests will not be able
to run.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37756
llvm-svn: 313407
This patch is still breaking several multi-stage compiler-rt bots.
I already know what the fix is, but I want to get the bots green
for now and then try re-applying in the morning.
llvm-svn: 313335
This patch simplifies LLVM's lit infrastructure by enforcing an ordering
that a site config is always run before a source-tree config.
A significant amount of the complexity from lit config files arises from
the fact that inside of a source-tree config file, we don't yet know if
the site config has been run. However it is *always* required to run
a site config first, because it passes various variables down through
CMake that the main config depends on. As a result, every config
file has to do a bunch of magic to try to reverse-engineer the location
of the site config file if they detect (heuristically) that the site
config file has not yet been run.
This patch solves the problem by emitting a mapping from source tree
config file to binary tree site config file in llvm-lit.py. Then, during
discovery when we find a config file, we check to see if we have a
target mapping for it, and if so we use that instead.
This mechanism is generic enough that it does not affect external users
of lit. They will just not have a config mapping defined, and everything
will work as normal.
On the other hand, for us it allows us to make many simplifications:
* We are guaranteed that a site config will be executed first
* Inside of a main config, we no longer have to assume that attributes
might not be present and use getattr everywhere.
* We no longer have to pass parameters such as --param llvm_site_config=<path>
on the command line.
* It is future-proof, meaning you don't have to edit llvm-lit.in to add
support for new projects.
* All of the duplicated logic of trying various fallback mechanisms of
finding a site config from the main config are now gone.
One potentially noteworthy thing that was required to implement this
change is that whereas the ninja check targets previously used the first
method to spawn lit, they now use the second. In particular, you can no
longer run lit.py against the source tree while specifying the various
`foo_site_config=<path>` parameters. Instead, you need to run
llvm-lit.py.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37756
llvm-svn: 313270
Summary:
The capture() function was removed in r306625. This should fix PGO breakages
reported by Michael Zolotukhin.
Reviewers: mzolotukhin
Subscribers: sanjoy, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35088
llvm-svn: 307320
This reverts commit da6318a92fba793e4f2447ec478b001392d57d43.
This is causing failures on some build bots due to what appears
to be some kind of lit ordering dependency.
llvm-svn: 306833
Presently lit leaks files in the tests' output directories.
Specifically, if a test creates output files, lit makes no
effort to remove them prior to the next test run. This is
problematic because it leads to false positives whenever a
test passes because stale files were present. In general
it is a source of flakiness that should be removed.
This patch addresses this by building the list of all test
directories that are part of the current run set, and then
deleting those directories and recreating them anew. This
gives each test a clean baseline to start from.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34732
llvm-svn: 306832
This patch propogates the environment variable SYSTEMDRIVE on Windows when
running the unit tests. This prevents the creation of a directory named
"%SystemDrive%" when running the unit tests from FileSystemTest that use the
function llvm::sys::fs::remove_directories which in turn uses SHFileOperationW.
It is within SHFileOperationW that this environment variable may be used and if
undefined causes the creation of a "%SystemDrive%" directory in the current
directory.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32910
llvm-svn: 302409
At the moment almost every lit.site.cfg.in contains two lines comment:
## Autogenerated by LLVM/Clang configuration.
# Do not edit!
The patch adds variable LIT_SITE_CFG_IN_HEADER, that is replaced from
configure_lit_site_cfg with the note and some useful information.
llvm-svn: 266515
This lets us for example start running the unit test suite early. For
'check-llvm' on my machine, this drops the tim e from 44s to 32s!!!!!
It's pretty ugly. I barely know how to write Python, so feel free to
just tell me how I should write it instead. =D Thanks to Filipe and
others for help.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18089
llvm-svn: 263329
Unittests need LLVM_BUILD_MODE to pick up each test.
Confirmed on CentOS5, Mingw, MSYS, and with possible configurations on VS8 and VS10.
llvm-svn: 120212
--enable-shared configure flag to have the tools linked shared. (2.7svn is just
$(LLVMVersion) so it'll change to "2.7" in the release.) Always link the
example programs shared to test that the shared library keeps working.
On my mac laptop, Debug libLLVM2.7svn.dylib is 39MB, and opt (for example) is
16M static vs 440K shared.
Two things are less than ideal here:
1) The library doesn't include any version information. Since we expect to break
the ABI with every release, this shouldn't be much of a problem. If we do
release a compatible 2.7.1, we may be able to hack its library to work with
binaries compiled against 2.7.0, or we can just ask them to recompile. I'm
hoping to get a real packaging expert to look at this for the 2.8 release.
2) llvm-config doesn't yet have an option to print link options for the shared
library. I'll add this as a subsequent patch.
llvm-svn: 96559
