Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci: Make more custom runner jobs manual, and don't allow failure

[Willian Rampazzo]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 7:22 AM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Currently we define a lot of jobs for our custom runners:
> for both aarch64 and s390x we have
>  - all-linux-static
>  - all
>  - alldbg
>  - clang (manual)
>  - tci
>  - notcg (manual)
>
> This is overkill.  The main reason to run on these hosts is to get
> coverage for the host architecture; we can leave the handling of
> differences like debug vs non-debug to the x86 CI jobs.
>
> The jobs are also generally running OK; they occasionally fail due to
> timeouts, which is likely because we're overloading the machine by
> asking it to run 4 CI jobs at once plus the ad-hoc CI.
>
> Remove the 'allow_failure' tag from all these jobs, and switch the
> s390x-alldbg, aarch64-all, s390x-tci and aarch64-tci jobs to manual.
> This will let us make the switch for s390x and aarch64 hosts from
> the ad-hoc CI to gitlab.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
>  .gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml | 20 ++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>