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Ava Chow b81445333a Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#33243: test: Fix CLI_MAX_ARG_SIZE issues
fa96a4afea ci: Enable CI_LIMIT_STACK_SIZE=1 in i686_no_ipc task (MarcoFalke)
facfde2cdc test: Fix CLI_MAX_ARG_SIZE issues (MarcoFalke)

Pull request description:

  `CLI_MAX_ARG_SIZE` has many edge case issues:

  * It seems to be lower on some systems, but it is unknown how to reproduce locally: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33079#issuecomment-3139957274
  * `MAX_ARG_STRLEN` is a limit per arg, but we probably want "The maximum length of [all of] the arguments": See https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/sysconf.3.html, section `ARG_MAX - _SC_ARG_MAX`.
  * It doesn't account for the additional args added by the `bitcoin` command later on: 73220fc0f9/src/bitcoin.cpp (L85-L92)
  * It doesn't account for unicode encoding a string to bytes before taking its length.

  The issues are mostly harmless edge cases, but it would be good to fix them. So do that here, by:

  * Replacing `max()` by `sum()`, to correctly take into account all args, not just the largest one.
  * Reduce `CLI_MAX_ARG_SIZE`, to account for the `bitcoin` command additional args.

  Also, there is a test. The test can be called with `ulimit` to hopefully limit the max args size to the hard-coded value in the test framework. For reference:

  ```
  $ ( ulimit -s 512 && python3 -c 'import os; print(os.sysconf("SC_ARG_MAX") )' )
  131072
  ```

  On top of this pull it should pass, ...

  ```
  bash -c 'ulimit -s 512 && BITCOIN_CMD="bitcoin -M" ./bld-cmake/test/functional/rpc_misc.py --usecli -l DEBUG'
  ```

  ... and with the test_framework changes reverted, it should fail:

  ```
  OSError: [Errno 7] Argument list too long: 'bitcoin'
  ```

  Also, there is a commit to enable `CI_LIMIT_STACK_SIZE=1` in the i686 task, because it should now be possible and no longer hit the hard-to-reproduce issue mentioned above.

ACKs for top commit:
  cedwies:
    ACK fa96a4a
  achow101:
    ACK fa96a4afea
  enirox001:
    ACK fa96a4a — thanks for addressing the nits and clarifying the test; LGTM.
  mzumsande:
    Code Review ACK fa96a4afea

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CI Scripts

This directory contains scripts for each build step in each build stage.

Running a Stage Locally

Be aware that the tests will be built and run in-place, so please run at your own risk. If the repository is not a fresh git clone, you might have to clean files from previous builds or test runs first.

The ci needs to perform various sysadmin tasks such as installing packages or writing to the user's home directory. While it should be fine to run the ci system locally on your development box, the ci scripts can generally be assumed to have received less review and testing compared to other parts of the codebase. If you want to keep the work tree clean, you might want to run the ci system in a virtual machine with a Linux operating system of your choice.

To allow for a wide range of tested environments, but also ensure reproducibility to some extent, the test stage requires bash, docker, and python3 to be installed. To run on different architectures than the host qemu is also required. To install all requirements on Ubuntu, run

sudo apt install bash docker.io python3 qemu-user-static

It is recommended to run the ci system in a clean env. To run the test stage with a specific configuration,

env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" USER="$USER" bash -c 'FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh'

Configurations

The test files (FILE_ENV) are constructed to test a wide range of configurations, rather than a single pass/fail. This helps to catch build failures and logic errors that present on platforms other than the ones the author has tested.

Some builders use the dependency-generator in ./depends, rather than using the system package manager to install build dependencies. This guarantees that the tester is using the same versions as the release builds, which also use ./depends.

It is also possible to force a specific configuration without modifying the file. For example,

env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" USER="$USER" bash -c 'MAKEJOBS="-j1" FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh'

The files starting with 0n (n greater than 0) are the scripts that are run in order.

Cache

In order to avoid rebuilding all dependencies for each build, the binaries are cached and reused when possible. Changes in the dependency-generator will trigger cache-invalidation and rebuilds as necessary.

Configuring a repository for CI

Primary repository

To configure the primary repository, follow these steps:

  1. Register with Cirrus Runners and purchase runners.
  2. Install the Cirrus Runners GitHub app against the GitHub organization.
  3. Enable organisation-level runners to be used in public repositories:
    1. Org settings -> Actions -> Runner Groups -> Default -> Allow public repos
  4. Permit the following actions to run:
    1. cirruslabs/cache/restore@*
    2. cirruslabs/cache/save@*
    3. docker/setup-buildx-action@*
    4. actions/github-script@*

Forked repositories

When used in a fork the CI will run on GitHub's free hosted runners by default. In this case, due to GitHub's 10GB-per-repo cache size limitations caches will be frequently evicted and missed, but the workflows will run (slowly).

It is also possible to use your own Cirrus Runners in your own fork with an appropriate patch to the REPO_USE_CIRRUS_RUNNERS variable in ../.github/workflows/ci.yml NB that Cirrus Runners only work at an organisation level, therefore in order to use your own Cirrus Runners, the fork must be within your own organisation.