nixpkgs/pkgs/development/embedded/blackmagic/helper.sh
Graham Christensen c2b898da76 treewide: drop -l$NIX_BUILD_CORES
Passing `-l$NIX_BUILD_CORES` improperly limits the overall system load.

For a build machine which is configured to run `$B` builds where each
build gets `total cores / B` cores (`$C`), passing `-l $C` to make will
improperly limit the load to `$C` instead of `$B * $C`.

This effect becomes quite pronounced on machines with 80 cores, with
40 simultaneous builds and a cores limit of 2. On a machine with this
configuration, Nix will run 40 builds and make will limit the overall
system load to approximately 2. A build machine with this many cores
can happily run with a load approaching 80.

A non-solution is to oversubscribe the machine, by picking a larger
`$C`. However, there is no way to divide the number of cores in a way
which fairly subdivides the available cores when `$B` is greater than
1.

There has been exploration of passing a jobserver in to the sandbox,
or sharing a jobserver between all the builds. This is one option, but
relatively complicated and only supports make. Lots of other software
uses its own implementation of `-j` and doesn't support either `-l` or
the Make jobserver.

For the case of an interactive user machine, the user should limit
overall system load using `$B`, `$C`, and optionally systemd's
cpu/network/io limiting features.

Making this change should significantly improve the utilization of our
build farm, and improve the throughput of Hydra.
2022-09-22 16:01:23 -04:00

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################################################################################
# Build all of the platforms manually since the `all_platforms' target
# doesn't preserve all of the build outputs and overrides CFLAGS.
set -e
set -u
################################################################################
# Prevent a warning from shellcheck:
out=${out:-/tmp}
################################################################################
export CFLAGS=$NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE
export MAKEFLAGS="\
${enableParallelBuilding:+-j${NIX_BUILD_CORES}}"
################################################################################
PRODUCTS="blackmagic.bin blackmagic.hex blackmagic_dfu.bin blackmagic_dfu.hex"
################################################################################
make_platform() {
echo "Building for hardware platform $1"
make clean
make PROBE_HOST="$1"
if [ "$1" = "hosted" ]; then
install -m 0555 blackmagic "$out/bin"
fi
for f in $PRODUCTS; do
if [ -r "$f" ]; then
mkdir -p "$out/firmware/$1"
install -m 0444 "$f" "$out/firmware/$1"
fi
done
}
################################################################################
# Start by building libopencm3:
make -C libopencm3
################################################################################
# And now all of the platforms:
cd src
mkdir -p "$out/bin"
for platform in platforms/*/Makefile.inc; do
probe=$(basename "$(dirname "$platform")")
make_platform "$probe"
done