[OE-core] [PATCH RFC] sstate: Add eventhandler which cleans up stale recipe data

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Jun 7 07:20:12 UTC 2015


"Incremental builds do not work well when renaming recipes or changing
architecture" is a long standing issue which causes people considerable
pain. We've struggled for a long time to come up with a way to
generically address the problem.

There are additional issues where removal of a layer caused data to
continue to exist and additionally, changing DISTRO_FEATURES also caused
problems in an existing TMPDIR.

This patch attempts to address this by adding a mapping between stamp
files and manifests. After parsing we can easily tell which stamp files
are still reachable, if any manifest has a stamp that can no longer be
reached, we can remove it. Since this code ties this to the sstate
architecture list, it will not remove data from other than the current
MACHINE (and its active architectures). It does not clean the sstate
cache so if another build activates something which was cleaned, it
should reinstall from sstate.

We can also go one step further, depending on the setting of
SSTATE_PRUNE_OBSOLETEWORKDIR, workdirs which are no longer active can
also be removed. This avoids the buildup of many old copies of data in
WORKDIR for example when versions are upgraded.

The one thing which may surprise people with this change is if you
remove a layer, data added by that layer will be "uninstalled" before
the next build continues. I believe this is a feature and a good thing
to do though.

This code is safe with existing builds. If something isn't in the new
index it simply isn't removed. Since changes to the sstate code trigger
a rebuild, after this merges, we can assume the code will start to
detect changes from that point onwards.

[Right now this is an RFC, it appeared to do the right things in some
brief local tests and I am pretty excited that this could solve a long
standing usability issue in a clean and effective way. There is a bug
related to DISTRO_FEATURES changes right now since even skipped recipes
will still show active stamps meaning systemd isn't removed from a
sysvinit build and vice versa. I should be able to fix that next week
before merging. This patch depends on the patch on the bitbake list for
the event it needs. Before merging I will bump version number
requirements to ensure people have it. I also want to improve the log
output so it tells users what its doing rather than the obtuse
bb.error().]

[YOCTO #4102]

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
index 949ba4a..c5a974a 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
@@ -33,6 +33,15 @@ SSTATE_SCAN_CMD ?= 'find ${SSTATE_BUILDDIR} \( -name "${@"\" -o -name \"".join(d
 
 BB_HASHFILENAME = "${SSTATE_EXTRAPATH} ${SSTATE_PKGSPEC} ${SSTATE_SWSPEC}"
 
+SSTATE_ARCHS = " \
+    ${BUILD_ARCH} \
+    ${BUILD_ARCH}_${SDK_ARCH}_${SDK_OS} \
+    ${BUILD_ARCH}_${TARGET_ARCH} \
+    ${SDK_ARCH}_${SDK_OS} \
+    ${SDK_ARCH}_${PACKAGE_ARCH} \
+    allarch \
+    ${PACKAGE_ARCH}"
+
 SSTATE_MANMACH ?= "${SSTATE_PKGARCH}"
 
 SSTATECREATEFUNCS = "sstate_hardcode_path"
@@ -233,6 +242,20 @@ def sstate_install(ss, d):
         f.write(di + "\n")
     f.close()
 
+    # Append to the list of manifests for this PACKAGE_ARCH
+
+    i = d.expand("${SSTATE_MANIFESTS}/index-${SSTATE_MANMACH}")
+    l = bb.utils.lockfile(i + ".lock")
+    filedata = d.getVar("STAMP", True) + " " + d.getVar("SSTATE_MANFILEPREFIX", True) + " " + d.getVar("WORKDIR", True) + "\n"
+    manifests = []
+    if os.path.exists(i):
+        with open(i, "r") as f:
+            manifests = f.readlines()
+    if filedata not in manifests:
+        with open(i, "a+") as f:
+            f.write(filedata)
+    bb.utils.unlockfile(l)
+
     # Run the actual file install
     for state in ss['dirs']:
         if os.path.exists(state[1]):
@@ -858,3 +881,41 @@ python sstate_eventhandler() {
         bb.siggen.dump_this_task(sstatepkg + '_' + taskname + ".tgz" ".siginfo", d)
 }
 
+SSTATE_PRUNE_OBSOLETEWORKDIR = "1"
+
+# Event handler which removes manifests and stamps file for
+# recipes which are no longer reachable in a build where they
+# once were.
+# Also optionally removes the workdir of those tasks/recipes
+#
+addhandler sstate_eventhandler2
+sstate_eventhandler2[eventmask] = "bb.event.ReachableStamps"
+python sstate_eventhandler2() {
+    import glob
+    d = e.data
+    stamps = e.stamps.values()
+    toremove = []
+    removeworkdir = (d.getVar("SSTATE_PRUNE_OBSOLETEWORKDIR") == "1")
+    for a in d.getVar("SSTATE_ARCHS", True).split():
+        i = d.expand("${SSTATE_MANIFESTS}/index-" + a)
+        if not os.path.exists(i):
+            continue
+        with open(i, "r") as f:
+            lines = f.readlines()
+            for l in lines:
+                (stamp, manifest, workdir) = l.split()
+                if stamp not in stamps:
+                    toremove.append(l)
+                    bb.error("Stamp %s is not reachable" % stamp)
+        for r in toremove:
+            (stamp, manifest, workdir) = r.split()
+            for m in glob.glob(manifest + ".*"):
+                sstate_clean_manifest(m, d)
+            bb.utils.remove(stamp + "*")
+            if removeworkdir:
+                bb.utils.remove(workdir, recurse = True)
+            lines.remove(r)
+        with open(i, "w") as f:
+            for l in lines:
+                f.write(l)
+}





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