This introduces parallel mode for the test suite.
It doesn't fully work yet in the sense that if you do a fully parallel
run, you will encounter some file-name clashes, but this has to start
somewhere, and it seemed best to add some infrastructure now, so that
you can follow along and test subsequent patches if you care to.
This patch has two parts.
First, it checks for the GDB_PARALLEL variable. If this is set (say,
on the runtest command line), then the test suite assumes "parallel
mode". In this mode, files are put into a subdirectory named after
the test. That is, for DIR/TEST.exp, the outputs are put into
./outputs/DIR/TEST/.
This first part has various follow-on changes coming in subsequent
patches. This is why the code in this patch also makes "temp" and
"cache" directories.
Second, this adds an "inotify" mode. If you have the inotifywait
command (part of inotify-tools), you can set the GDB_INOTIFY variable.
This will tell the test suite to watch for changes outside of the
allowed output directories.
This mode is useful for debugging the test suite, as it issues a
report whenever a possibly parallel-unsafe file open is done.
2013-08-13 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/cache.exp (gdb_do_cache): Handle GDB_PARALLEL.
* lib/gdb.exp: Handle GDB_PARALLEL.
(default_gdb_version): Kill inotify_pid if it exists.
(default_gdb_exit): Emit warning if the inotify log is not
empty.
(standard_output_file): Respect GDB_PARALLEL.
(standard_temp_file): Likewise.
(gdb_init): Start inotifywait if requested.
* gdbint.texinfo (Testsuite): Use @table, not @itemize.
Document GDB_PARALLEL and GDB_INOTIFY.
In the fully parallel mode, each .exp file can be run in parallel (at
least conceptually -- the actual split may not be so severe). This
means that procs that compute a result and cache it are not going to
function very well. The test they run will be invoked over and over.
This patch introduces a generic caching mechanism and changes various
result-caching procs to use it. This is a cleanup to introduce the
basic change; the results aren't written to disk yet.
A caching proc is defined using gdb_caching_proc, which works like
"proc", except that it caches the result of the body.
* lib/cache.exp: New file.
* lib/cell.exp (skip_cell_tests): Use gdb_caching_proc.
* lib/gdb.exp: Load cache.exp.
(support_complex_tests, is_ilp32_target, is_lp64_target)
(is_amd64_regs_target, skip_altivec_tests, skip_vsx_tests)
(gdb_skip_xml_test): Use gdb_caching_proc.
* lib/opencl.exp (skip_opencl_tests): Use gdb_caching_proc.
