bitbake: Use a "fork" multiprocessing context

Python 3.14 changes the default multiprocessing context from "fork" to
"forkserver"; however bitbake heavily relies on "fork" to efficiently
pass data to the child processes. As such, make "fork" context in the bb
namespace and use it in place of the normal multiprocessing module.

Note that multiprocessing contexts were added in Python 3.4, so this
should be safe to use even before Python 3.14

[YOCTO #15858]

(Bitbake rev: 62be9113d98fccb347c6aa0a10d5c4ee2857f8b6)

Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Joshua Watt
2025-07-21 13:40:18 -06:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 92b07bd4ab
commit d363bc475a
7 changed files with 35 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import os
import signal
import socket
import sys
import multiprocessing
from bb import multiprocessing
import logging
from .connection import StreamConnection, WebsocketConnection
from .exceptions import ClientError, ServerError, ConnectionClosedError, InvokeError