buildman: Adjust the 'aborted' heuristic for writing output

At present buildman tries to detect an aborted build and doesn't record a
result in that case. This is to make sure that an abort (e.g. with Ctrl-C)
does not mark the build as done. Without this option, buildman would never
retry the build unless -f/-F are provided. The effect is that aborting the
build creates 'fake errors' on whatever builds buildman happens to be
working on at the time.

Unfortunately the current test is not reliable and this detection can
trigger if a required toolchain tool is missing. In this case the toolchain
problem is never reported.

Adjust the logic to continue processing the build result, mark the build as
done (and failed), but with a return code which indicates that it should be
retried.

The correct fix is to fully and correctly detect an aborted build, quit
buildman immediately and not write any partial build results in this case.
Unfortunately this is currently beyond my powers and is left as an exercise
for the reader (and patches are welcome).

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

diff --git a/tools/buildman/builderthread.py b/tools/buildman/builderthread.py
index 6ad240d606978218aac92b8cf53125e947d7be77..bd8635cf18e95b5e2f7614e24dc3b8f14f6285d3 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/buildman/builderthread.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/builderthread.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import threading
 import command
 import gitutil
 
+RETURN_CODE_RETRY = -1
+
 def Mkdir(dirname, parents = False):
     """Make a directory if it doesn't already exist.
 
@@ -145,7 +147,11 @@ class BuilderThread(threading.Thread):
             # Get the return code from that build and use it
             with open(done_file, 'r') as fd:
                 result.return_code = int(fd.readline())
-            if will_build:
+
+            # Check the signal that the build needs to be retried
+            if result.return_code == RETURN_CODE_RETRY:
+                will_build = True
+            elif will_build:
                 err_file = self.builder.GetErrFile(commit_upto, brd.target)
                 if os.path.exists(err_file) and os.stat(err_file).st_size:
                     result.stderr = 'bad'
@@ -243,9 +249,10 @@ class BuilderThread(threading.Thread):
         if result.return_code < 0:
             return
 
-        # Aborted?
-        if result.stderr and 'No child processes' in result.stderr:
-            return
+        # If we think this might have been aborted with Ctrl-C, record the
+        # failure but not that we are 'done' with this board. A retry may fix
+        # it.
+        maybe_aborted =  result.stderr and 'No child processes' in result.stderr
 
         if result.already_done:
             return
@@ -275,7 +282,11 @@ class BuilderThread(threading.Thread):
             done_file = self.builder.GetDoneFile(result.commit_upto,
                     result.brd.target)
             with open(done_file, 'w') as fd:
-                fd.write('%s' % result.return_code)
+                if maybe_aborted:
+                    # Special code to indicate we need to retry
+                    fd.write('%s' % RETURN_CODE_RETRY)
+                else:
+                    fd.write('%s' % result.return_code)
             with open(os.path.join(build_dir, 'toolchain'), 'w') as fd:
                 print >>fd, 'gcc', result.toolchain.gcc
                 print >>fd, 'path', result.toolchain.path