[meta-virtualization] [PATCH] libvirt: fix Nothing PROVIDES 'numactl' on ARM

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:07 PM Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
wrote:

> ARM does not currently support NUMA, and defines COMPATIBLE_HOST in recipe
> numactl
>
> Since commit [b5b5def libvirt: add hook support] applied, it failed with
> Nothing PROVIDES 'numactl' on ARM BSP, not all BSP define var-KARCH but
> define var-TARGET_ARCH
>
> So check var-TARGET_ARCH, and add numactl to PACKAGECONFIG conditionally


> Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
> ---
>  recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_5.3.0.bb | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_5.3.0.bb
> b/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_5.3.0.bb
> index 30bb44c..a949e8f 100644
> --- a/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_5.3.0.bb
> +++ b/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_5.3.0.bb
> @@ -189,9 +189,17 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "qemu yajl openvz vmware vbox esx
> iproute2 lxc test \
>                     ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'selinux',
> 'selinux audit libcap-ng', '', d)} \
>                     ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'xen',
> 'libxl', '', d)} \
>                     ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11',
> 'polkit', '', d)} \
> -                   ${@bb.utils.contains('KARCH', 'arm', '', 'numactl',
> d)} \
> +                   ${@support_numactl(d)} \
>                    "
>
> +def support_numactl(d):
> +    targetarch = d.getVar("TARGET_ARCH")
> +    # ARM does not currently support NUMA
> +    if targetarch.startswith("arm"):
> +        return ""
> +
> +    return "numactl"
> +
>

Checking TARGET_ARCH is definitely the right thing to use for this.

But out of curiosity, why can't we change it to work the same as the qemu
PACKAGECONFIG setting ?

i.e. PACKAGECONFIG_remove_arm = "numactl"
PACKAGECONFIG_remove_arm64 = "numactl"

(or whatever the ARM64 target arch maps to).

Bruce



>  # qemu is NOT compatible with mips64
>  PACKAGECONFIG_remove_mipsarchn32 = "qemu"
>  PACKAGECONFIG_remove_mipsarchn64 = "qemu"
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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