bitcoin/ci
MacroFake eeb5a94e27
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#25528: ci: run USDT interface tests in the CI
cc7335edc8 ci: run USDT interface test in a VM (0xb10c)
dba6f82342 test: adopt USDT utxocache interface tests (0xb10c)
220a5a2841 test: hook into PID in tracing tests (0xb10c)

Pull request description:

  Changes a CI task that runs test the previously not run `test/functional/interface_usdt_*.py` functional tests (added in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24358).

  This task is run as CirussCI `compute_engine_instance` VM as hooking into the tracepoints is not possible in CirrusCI docker containers (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/23296#issuecomment-1024920845). We use an unoffical PPA and untrusted  `bpfcc-tools` package in the CI as the Ubuntu jammy and Debian bullseye packages are outdated. We hope use an official package when new Ubuntu/Debian releases are available for the use with Google Compute Engine.

  We make sure to hook into `bitcoind` binaries in USDT interface tests via their PID, instead of their path. This makes sure multiple functional tests running in parallel don't interfere with each other.

  The utxocache USDT interface tests is adopted to a change of the functional test framework that wasn't detected as the tests weren't run in the CI. As the tracepoints expose internals, it can happen that we need to adopt the interface test when internals change. This is a bit awkward, and if it happens to frequently, we should consider generalizing the tests a bit more. For now it's fine, I think.

  See the individual commit messages for more details on the changes.

  Fixes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/24782
  Fixes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/23296

  I'd like to hear from reviewers:
  - Are we OK with using the [`hadret/bpfcc`](https://launchpad.net/~hadret/+archive/ubuntu/bpfcc) PPA for now? There is a clear plan when to drop it and as is currently, it could only impact the newly added VM task.
  - ~~Adding a new task increases CI runtime and costs. Should an existing `container` CI task be ported to a VM and reused instead?~~ Yes, see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25528#issuecomment-1179509525

ACKs for top commit:
  MarcoFalke:
    cr ACK cc7335edc8

Tree-SHA512: b7fddccc0a77d82371229d048abe0bf2c4ccaa45906497ef3040cf99e7f05561890aef4c253c40e4afc96bb838c9787fae81c8454c6fd9db583276e005a4ccb3
2022-08-01 11:27:29 +02:00
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lint refactor: cleanups post unsubtree'ing univalue 2022-06-15 12:56:44 +01:00
retry build: update retry to current version 2019-10-30 18:49:57 -04:00
test Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#25528: ci: run USDT interface tests in the CI 2022-08-01 11:27:29 +02:00
lint_run_all.sh scripted-diff: Bump copyright headers 2020-12-31 09:45:41 +01:00
README.md doc: move doc to ci readme 2020-06-19 10:44:00 -04:00
test_run_all.sh scripted-diff: Bump copyright headers 2020-12-31 09:45:41 +01:00

CI Scripts

This directory contains scripts for each build step in each build stage.

Running a Stage Locally

Be aware that the tests will be built and run in-place, so please run at your own risk. If the repository is not a fresh git clone, you might have to clean files from previous builds or test runs first.

The ci needs to perform various sysadmin tasks such as installing packages or writing to the user's home directory. While most of the actions are done inside a docker container, this is not possible for all. Thus, cache directories, such as the depends cache, previous release binaries, or ccache, are mounted as read-write into the docker container. While it should be fine to run the ci system locally on you development box, the ci scripts can generally be assumed to have received less review and testing compared to other parts of the codebase. If you want to keep the work tree clean, you might want to run the ci system in a virtual machine with a Linux operating system of your choice.

To allow for a wide range of tested environments, but also ensure reproducibility to some extent, the test stage requires docker to be installed. To install all requirements on Ubuntu, run

sudo apt install docker.io bash

To run the default test stage,

./ci/test_run_all.sh

To run the test stage with a specific configuration,

FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh

Configurations

The test files (FILE_ENV) are constructed to test a wide range of configurations, rather than a single pass/fail. This helps to catch build failures and logic errors that present on platforms other than the ones the author has tested.

Some builders use the dependency-generator in ./depends, rather than using the system package manager to install build dependencies. This guarantees that the tester is using the same versions as the release builds, which also use ./depends.

If no FILE_ENV has been specified or values are left out, 00_setup_env.sh is used as the default configuration with fallback values.

It is also possible to force a specific configuration without modifying the file. For example,

MAKEJOBS="-j1" FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh

The files starting with 0n (n greater than 0) are the scripts that are run in order.

Cache

In order to avoid rebuilding all dependencies for each build, the binaries are cached and re-used when possible. Changes in the dependency-generator will trigger cache-invalidation and rebuilds as necessary.