image-buildinfo.bbclass: fix performance problems

Inheriting image-buildinfo.bbclass primarily slowed down image
building for two reasons:
1. The content of the shell command "buildinfo" gets expanded
   multiple times, each time again checking the state of all
   layers.
2. When expanded as part of the actual image creation, git
   is invoked under pseudo, which makes the check quite a bit
   slower (from a few seconds to a minute with many layers).

To fix this, buildinfo now is a Python method which calls the checks
only when really executed. Pseudo is told to unload itself when
starting git.

In addition, "git diff" is invoked with "--quiet", which avoids
producing output that is just getting thrown away. As before, any kind
of problem or output causes the layer to be marked as "modified".

[Revision 2 of the change with some dead code removed]

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/image-buildinfo.bbclass b/meta/classes/image-buildinfo.bbclass
index 5b738ae596..197b24235b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image-buildinfo.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image-buildinfo.bbclass
@@ -26,12 +26,17 @@ def image_buildinfo_outputvars(vars, listvars, d):
 
 # Gets git branch's status (clean or dirty)
 def get_layer_git_status(path):
-    f = os.popen("cd %s; git diff --stat 2>&1 | tail -n 1" % path)
-    data = f.read()
-    if f.close() is None:
-        if len(data) != 0:
-            return "-- modified"
-    return ""
+    import subprocess
+    try:
+        subprocess.check_output("cd %s; PSEUDO_UNLOAD=1 git diff --quiet --no-ext-diff" % path,
+                                shell=True,
+                                stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+        return ""
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError, ex:
+        # Silently treat errors as "modified", without checking for the
+        # (expected) return code 1 in a modified git repo. For example, we get
+        # output and a 129 return code when a layer isn't a git repo at all.
+        return "-- modified"
 
 # Returns layer revisions along with their respective status
 def get_layer_revs(d):
@@ -53,17 +58,21 @@ def buildinfo_target(d):
         return image_buildinfo_outputvars(vars, listvars, d)
 
 # Write build information to target filesystem
-buildinfo () {
-cat > ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${sysconfdir}/build << END
------------------------
+python buildinfo () {
+    with open(d.expand('${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${sysconfdir}/build'), 'w') as build:
+        build.writelines((
+            '''-----------------------
 Build Configuration:  |
 -----------------------
-${@buildinfo_target(d)}
+''',
+            buildinfo_target(d),
+            '''
 -----------------------
-Layer Revisions:      |   
+Layer Revisions:      |
 -----------------------
-${@get_layer_revs(d)}
-END
+''',
+            get_layer_revs(d)
+       ))
 }
 
 IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND += "buildinfo;"