As gprof relies on instrumentation you rarely get useful data compared to a real optimised build. Lets deprecate the build option and simplify the CI configuration as a result. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee(a)linaro.org&gt; Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ meson.build | 7 ++++++- .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 19 ++++--------------- meson_options.txt | 3 ++- 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 9f1bbc495d..87b4511535 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -20,6 +20,20 @@ they were first deprecated in the 2.10.0 release. What follows is a list of all features currently marked as deprecated. +Build options +------------- + +``gprof`` builds (since 8.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``--enable-gprof`` configure setting relies on compiler +instrumentation to gather its data which can distort the generated +profile. As other non-instrumenting tools are available that give a +more holistic view of the system with non-instrumented binaries we are +deprecating the build option and no longer defend it in CI. The +``--enable-gcov`` build option remains for analysis test case +coverage. + System emulator command line arguments -------------------------------------- diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 56320ae717..ecf44ea534 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -3791,7 +3791,12 @@ summary_info += {'mutex debugging': get_option('debug_mutex')} summary_info += {'memory allocator': get_option('malloc')} summary_info += {'avx2 optimization': config_host_data.get('CONFIG_AVX2_OPT')} summary_info += {'avx512f optimization': config_host_data.get('CONFIG_AVX512F_OPT')} -summary_info += {'gprof enabled': get_option('gprof')} +if get_option('gprof') + gprof_info = 'YES (deprecated)' +else + gprof_info = get_option('gprof') +endif +summary_info += {'gprof': gprof_info} summary_info += {'gcov': get_option('b_coverage')} summary_info += {'thread sanitizer': config_host.has_key('CONFIG_TSAN')} summary_info += {'CFI support': get_option('cfi')} diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml index 9a6ba1fe3b..dc8fa0a498 100644 --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml @@ -468,27 +468,16 @@ tsan-build: TARGETS: x86_64-softmmu ppc64-softmmu riscv64-softmmu x86_64-linux-user MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: bench V=1 -# gprof/gcov are GCC features -build-gprof-gcov: +# gcov is a GCC features +gcov: extends: .native_build_job_template needs: job: amd64-ubuntu2004-container + timeout: 80m variables: IMAGE: ubuntu2004 - CONFIGURE_ARGS: --enable-gprof --enable-gcov + CONFIGURE_ARGS: --enable-gcov TARGETS: aarch64-softmmu ppc64-softmmu s390x-softmmu x86_64-softmmu - artifacts: - expire_in: 1 days - paths: - - build - -check-gprof-gcov: - extends: .native_test_job_template - needs: - - job: build-gprof-gcov - artifacts: true - variables: - IMAGE: ubuntu2004 MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check after_script: - cd build diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt index 559a571b6b..53459c15fc 100644 --- a/meson_options.txt +++ b/meson_options.txt @@ -316,7 +316,8 @@ option('debug_stack_usage', type: 'boolean', value: false, option('qom_cast_debug', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'cast debugging support') option('gprof', type: 'boolean', value: false, - description: 'QEMU profiling with gprof') + description: 'QEMU profiling with gprof', + deprecated: true) option('profiler', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'profiler support') option('slirp_smbd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', -- 2.34.1