runqemu: Add a hook to allow it to renice

We have an issue where qemu is being starved of resources on our autobuilders.
We can't raise its priority without special capacilties, therefore add a hook
which if present can allow this to happen using an executable
"~/runqemu-renice".

(From OE-Core rev: 829443b3fafa000e330c06ebb144641bd2d20ad1)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 141a3c9ce93bc3d526303021ecf0460c6e9fea8a)
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Richard Purdie
2020-09-05 15:06:07 +01:00
parent 52ede1bca7
commit 54ef7e8750

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@@ -1507,6 +1507,11 @@ def main():
try:
config = BaseConfig()
renice = os.path.expanduser("~/bin/runqemu-renice")
if os.path.exists(renice):
logger.info('Using %s to renice' % renice)
subprocess.check_call([renice, str(os.getpid())])
def sigterm_handler(signum, frame):
logger.info("SIGTERM received")
os.kill(config.qemupid, signal.SIGTERM)