Re: [PATCH for-4.20] automation/gitlab: disable coverage from clang randconfig

[Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/14/25 6:43 PM, Roger Pau Monne wrote:

> If randconfig enables coverage support the build times out due to GNU LD
> taking too long.  For the time being prevent coverage from being enabled in
> clang randconfig job.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     
R-Acked-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>
~ Oleksii
> ---
> Cc: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I will fix the orphaned section stuff separately, as I'm considering just
> removing LLVM coverage support because the llvm coverage format is not
> stable, and the code to dump it has already become stale.  However I need
> to think about it, and in the short term disabling coverage support from
> randconfig is more straightforward.
> ---
>  automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
> index cb84f379b754..bc4a8a5ad20c 100644
> --- a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
> +++ b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
> @@ -556,6 +556,8 @@ debian-12-x86_64-clang-randconfig:
>    variables:
>      CONTAINER: debian:12-x86_64
>      RANDCONFIG: y
> +    EXTRA_FIXED_RANDCONFIG: |
> +      CONFIG_COVERAGE=n # Disable coverage otherwise build times out.
>  
>  debian-12-x86_64-gcc:
>    extends: .gcc-x86-64-build
>