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When bitbake is off running heavier "idle" commands, it doesn't service it's command socket which means stopping/interrupting it is hard. It also means we can't "ping" from the UI to know if it is still alive. For those reasons, split idle command execution into it's own thread. The commands are generally already self containted so this is easier than expected. We do have to be careful to only handle inotify poll() from a single thread at a time. It also means we always have to use a thread lock when sending events since both the idle thread and the command thread may generate log messages (and hence events). The patch depends on previous fixes to the builtins locking in event.py and the heartbeat enable/disable changes as well as other locking additions. We use a condition to signal from the idle thread when other sections of code can continue, thanks to Joshua Watt for the review and tweaks squashed into this patch. We do have some sync points where we need to ensure any currently executing commands have finished before we can start a new async command for example. (Bitbake rev: 67dd9a5e84811df8869a82da6a37a41ee8fe94e2) Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Bitbake
BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software stacks using a task-oriented approach.
For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website: https://www.openembedded.org/
Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: https://docs.yoctoproject.org
Bitbake requires Python version 3.8 or newer.
Contributing
Please refer to https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded for guidelines on how to submit patches, just note that the latter documentation is intended for OpenEmbedded (and its core) not bitbake patches (bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org) but in general main guidelines apply. Once the commit(s) have been created, the way to send the patch is through git-send-email. For example, to send the last commit (HEAD) on current branch, type:
git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Mailing list:
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel
Source code:
https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/
Testing
Bitbake has a testsuite located in lib/bb/tests/ whichs aim to try and prevent regressions. You can run this with "bitbake-selftest". In particular the fetcher is well covered since it has so many corner cases. The datastore has many tests too. Testing with the testsuite is recommended before submitting patches, particularly to the fetcher and datastore. We also appreciate new test cases and may require them for more obscure issues.
To run the tests "zstd" and "git" must be installed. Git must be correctly configured, in particular the user.email and user.name values must be set.
The assumption is made that this testsuite is run from an initialized OpenEmbedded build
environment (i.e. source oe-init-build-env is used). If this is not the case, run the
testsuite as follows:
export PATH=$(pwd)/bin:$PATH
bin/bitbake-selftest