Dan Williams <[email protected]> writes: > Autotools is slow. It is so slow that it takes some of the joy out of > hacking on the ndctl project. A fellow developer points out that QEMU > has moved to meson, and systemd has moved as well. An initial conversion > of ndctl to meson shows speed gains as large as an order of magnitude > improvement, and that result motivates the formal patches below to > complete the conversion. > > Given that this change breaks scripts built for automating the autotools > style build, the old autotools environment is kept working until all the > meson conversion bugs have been worked out, and downstream users have > had a chance to adjust. > > Other immediate benefits beside build speed is a unit test execution > harness with more capability and flexibility. It allows tests to be > organized by category and has a framework to support timeout as a test > failure. > > --- > > Dan Williams (6): > util: Distribute 'filter' and 'json' helpers to per-tool objects > Documentation: Drop attrs.adoc include > build: Drop unnecessary $tool/config.h includes > build: Explicitly include version.h > test: Prepare out of line builds > build: Add meson build infrastructure >
With the patch-series got working builds for ndctl/daxctl on ppc64le using meson/ninja Hence, Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <[email protected]> > > .gitignore | 5 > Documentation/cxl/meson.build | 82 + > Documentation/daxctl/meson.build | 88 + > Documentation/ndctl/Makefile.am | 11 > Documentation/ndctl/intel-nvdimm-security.txt | 2 > Documentation/ndctl/meson.build | 124 ++ > Documentation/ndctl/ndctl-load-keys.txt | 2 > Documentation/ndctl/ndctl-monitor.txt | 5 > Documentation/ndctl/ndctl-sanitize-dimm.txt | 2 > Documentation/ndctl/ndctl-setup-passphrase.txt | 2 > Documentation/ndctl/ndctl-update-passphrase.txt | 2 > Makefile.am | 1 > Makefile.am.in | 3 > clean_config.sh | 2 > config.h.meson | 149 +++ > cxl/Makefile.am | 3 > cxl/cxl.c | 1 > cxl/filter.c | 25 > cxl/filter.h | 7 > cxl/json.c | 34 + > cxl/json.h | 8 > cxl/lib/meson.build | 24 > cxl/list.c | 5 > cxl/memdev.c | 3 > cxl/meson.build | 23 > daxctl/Makefile.am | 5 > daxctl/daxctl.c | 1 > daxctl/device.c | 4 > daxctl/filter.c | 43 + > daxctl/filter.h | 12 > daxctl/json.c | 251 ++++ > daxctl/json.h | 18 > daxctl/lib/meson.build | 32 + > daxctl/list.c | 5 > daxctl/meson.build | 25 > daxctl/migrate.c | 1 > meson.build | 237 ++++ > meson_options.txt | 17 > ndctl/Makefile.am | 16 > ndctl/bus.c | 4 > ndctl/dimm.c | 6 > ndctl/filter.c | 60 - > ndctl/filter.h | 12 > ndctl/inject-error.c | 4 > ndctl/inject-smart.c | 4 > ndctl/json-smart.c | 3 > ndctl/json.c | 1114 +++++++++++++++++++ > ndctl/json.h | 24 > ndctl/keys.c | 4 > ndctl/keys.h | 0 > ndctl/lib/libndctl.c | 2 > ndctl/lib/meson.build | 38 + > ndctl/lib/papr.c | 4 > ndctl/lib/private.h | 4 > ndctl/list.c | 6 > ndctl/load-keys.c | 5 > ndctl/meson.build | 70 + > ndctl/monitor.c | 6 > ndctl/namespace.c | 4 > ndctl/ndctl.c | 1 > ndctl/region.c | 3 > test/Makefile.am | 27 > test/ack-shutdown-count-set.c | 2 > test/btt-errors.sh | 4 > test/common | 37 - > test/dax-pmd.c | 7 > test/dax.sh | 6 > test/daxdev-errors.c | 2 > test/daxdev-errors.sh | 4 > test/device-dax-fio.sh | 2 > test/device-dax.c | 2 > test/dm.sh | 4 > test/dpa-alloc.c | 2 > test/dsm-fail.c | 4 > test/inject-smart.sh | 2 > test/libndctl.c | 2 > test/list-smart-dimm.c | 7 > test/meson.build | 267 +++++ > test/mmap.sh | 6 > test/monitor.sh | 6 > test/multi-pmem.c | 4 > test/pmem-errors.sh | 8 > test/revoke-devmem.c | 2 > test/sub-section.sh | 4 > test/track-uuid.sh | 2 > tools/meson-vcs-tag.sh | 17 > util/help.c | 2 > util/json.c | 1363 > ----------------------- > util/json.h | 39 - > util/meson.build | 15 > version.h.in | 2 > 91 files changed, 2919 insertions(+), 1590 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/cxl/meson.build > create mode 100644 Documentation/daxctl/meson.build > create mode 100644 Documentation/ndctl/meson.build > create mode 100755 clean_config.sh > create mode 100644 config.h.meson > create mode 100644 cxl/filter.c > create mode 100644 cxl/filter.h > create mode 100644 cxl/json.c > create mode 100644 cxl/json.h > create mode 100644 cxl/lib/meson.build > create mode 100644 cxl/meson.build > create mode 100644 daxctl/filter.c > create mode 100644 daxctl/filter.h > create mode 100644 daxctl/json.c > create mode 100644 daxctl/json.h > create mode 100644 daxctl/lib/meson.build > create mode 100644 daxctl/meson.build > create mode 100644 meson.build > create mode 100644 meson_options.txt > rename util/filter.c => ndctl/filter.c (88%) > rename util/filter.h => ndctl/filter.h (89%) > rename ndctl/{util/json-smart.c => json-smart.c} (99%) > create mode 100644 ndctl/json.c > create mode 100644 ndctl/json.h > rename ndctl/{util/keys.c => keys.c} (99%) > rename ndctl/{util/keys.h => keys.h} (100%) > create mode 100644 ndctl/lib/meson.build > create mode 100644 ndctl/meson.build > create mode 100644 test/meson.build > create mode 100755 tools/meson-vcs-tag.sh > create mode 100644 util/meson.build > create mode 100644 version.h.in > > base-commit: 5884f09e488748dad8fea660fd80044b06609f26 > -- Cheers ~ Vaibhav
