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From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:17:21 +0300

Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Cap number of threads on 32bit platforms, add a tunable

 (RhBug:1729382)

On 32bit plaforms, address space is easily exhausted with multiple

threads, causing arbitrary builds failure regressions (RhBug:1729382).

Simply cap the number of threads to maximum of four on any 32bit

platform to play it safe. It's still three more than we were able to

use on older releases...

In addition, introduce a separate tunable for tweaking the maximum

number of threads just in case, defaulting to max CPUs available.

---

 build/parseSpec.c | 10 +++++++++-

 platform.in       |  3 +++

 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/build/parseSpec.c b/build/parseSpec.c

index 737a1233c..ab3ba9cae 100644

--- a/build/parseSpec.c

+++ b/build/parseSpec.c

@@ -1035,7 +1035,15 @@ static rpmSpec parseSpec(const char *specFile, rpmSpecFlags flags,

 #ifdef ENABLE_OPENMP

     /* Set number of OMP threads centrally */

-    int ncpus = rpmExpandNumeric("%{?_smp_build_ncpus}");

+    int ncpus = rpmExpandNumeric("%{?_smp_nthreads_max}");

+#if __WORDSIZE == 32

+    /* On 32bit platforms, address space shortage is an issue. Play safe. */

+    if (ncpus <= 0 || ncpus > 4) {

+	ncpus = 4;

+	rpmlog(RPMLOG_DEBUG,

+		"limiting number of threads to %d due to platform\n", ncpus);

+    }

+#endif

     if (ncpus > 0)

 	omp_set_num_threads(ncpus);

 #endif

diff --git a/platform.in b/platform.in

index db6d2382f..c70f44193 100644

--- a/platform.in

+++ b/platform.in

@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@

 %_smp_mflags -j%{_smp_build_ncpus}

+# Maximum number of CPU's to use for threads

+%_smp_nthreads_max %{_smp_build_ncpus}

+

 #==============================================================================

 # ---- Build policy macros.

 #

-- 

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