[Mesa-dev] freedreno CI day 1

[Eric Anholt]

Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> writes:

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> I pushed the branch enabling freedreno CI today.  Now all the MRs will
> get pre-merge testing with GLES3.1 on A630, and GLES2 on A307.
>
> See .gitlab-ci/README.md for more info on how it works.  Also, as a
> reminder, if you want to get something tested before generating your MR,
> you can either edit .gitlab-ci.yml to change .ci-run-policy, or push the
> branch to your repo with a name starting with "ci-".  Secondary note: If
> you make an MR from a branch starting with "ci-", it will have two
> pipelines run every time you update it :(
>
> Today's surprises:
>
> - layout_binding.ssbo.fragment_binding_array is unstable
>
> I did one test to see if a patch I had on hand would fix it, and it
> didn't, so I pushed through a patch disabling that test from CI so you
> all wouldn't see those failures.
>
> - EXT4 FS corruption
>
> A few unfortunate events came together for this one: I had the kernel
> boot args mounting / rw out of habit from back in my NFS-root days, and
> there's no initrd to fsck /, and also I have harshly power-cycled them
> all in the process of setting things up.  This adds up to "there's minor
> corruption on / that may impact test runs."  Watch out for mysterious
> docker errors.  If this occurs at a bothersome rate, feel free to push a
> disable of freedreno CI until I can fix it, though it doesn't look too
> bad yet.  I'll be fixing those boot args and making sure that we've got
> clean filesystems on all boards tomorrow.

I've now enabled fsck on all the boards and we should be back in
business.  Looks like I can do this kind of change (bringing each board
down in turn) without interrupting overall CI availability, which seems
like a pretty good test.
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