Closures use a 16-bit atomic reference count, which is really slow
on certain ARM64 CPUs such as the Cortex-A57 (glib#1316). This is
non-trivial to solve, since the public struct field cannot be enlarged
to 32-bit while preserving ABI, and 16-bit atomic operations would be new
(and rather niche) API.
Until this can be solved properly (hopefully in GLib 2.59.x), cut down
the number of signal emission cycles and bump up the timeout in the
Meson build system, so that builds won't time out. We can't just take
another zero off the number of signal emission cycles, as was done in the
original version of this patch in Debian, because if we do that it can
result in test failures when the main thread starves the other threads.
ARM64 CPUs are backwards-compatible with 32-bit ARM, and the same
slowdown can be seen when building and testing 32-bit code on these
CPUs, so check for both 32- and 64-bit ARM.
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/880883
Co-authored-by: Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
This makes it easier to debug test failures, by ensuring that g_debug()
and g_test_message() are printed as TAP diagnostics.
Fixes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1528
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
These keep on taking just longer than 30s on my local machine when run
in parallel with the rest of the tests (i.e. with `ninja test`). Testing
them individually, they do terminate correctly.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Meson has the ability to classify tests according to "suites", a list of
tags. This is especially useful when we want to run specific sets of
tests — e.g. only GLib's tests — instead of the whole test suite. It
also allows us to classify special tests, like "slow" ones, so that we
can only run them when needed.
