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2018-03-02qapi: Touch generated files only when they changeMarkus Armbruster
A massive number of objects depends on QAPI-generated headers. In my "build everything" tree, it's roughly 4800 out of 5100. This is particularly annoying when only some of the generated files change, say for a doc fix. Improve qapi-gen.py to touch its output files only if they actually change. Rebuild time for a QAPI doc fix drops from many minutes to a few seconds. Rebuilds get faster for certain code changes, too. For instance, adding a simple QMP event now recompiles less than 200 instead of 4800 objects. But adding a QAPI type is as bad as ever; we've clearly got more work to do. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180211093607.27351-11-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [eblake: fix octal constant for python3] Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2018-03-02qapi-gen: Convert from getopt to argparseMarkus Armbruster
argparse is nicer to use than getopt, and gives us --help almost for free. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180211093607.27351-10-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> [eblake: Fix --output-dir editing accident] Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2018-03-02qapi-gen: New common driver for code and doc generatorsMarkus Armbruster
Whenever qapi-schema.json changes, we run six programs eleven times to update eleven files. Similar for qga/qapi-schema.json. This is silly. Replace the six programs by a single program that spits out all eleven files. The programs become modules in new Python package qapi, along with the helper library. This requires moving them to scripts/qapi/. While moving them, consistently drop executable mode bits. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180211093607.27351-9-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [eblake: move change to one-line 'blurb' earlier in series, mention mode bit change as intentional, update qapi-code-gen.txt to match actual generated events.c file] Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>