image_types.bbclass: Set memory usage limit and CPU threads for xz

when building with opkg backend and huge packages e.g. chromium/llvm all
going in parallel, memory pressure causes xz to catapult with

do_package_write_ipk: Failed to create package, opkg-build failed with: xz: (stdin): Cannot allocate memory

since there are many tasks going on in parallel, xz adds to memory pressure
and it wants it all, put an upper limit for memory xz can use

We add a variable XZ_MAXRAM with 30% of RAM limit and can be customized
if builders have more memory one can set it like

XZ_DEFAULTS = "-M 0 -T 0"

(From OE-Core rev: 28b277a93a34bba033d9d0d9f3227c9453efd384)

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

4 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
index ddca5b624e..6b9407e78b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ def imagetypes_getdepends(d):
 
 XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL ?= "-3"
 XZ_INTEGRITY_CHECK ?= "crc32"
-XZ_THREADS ?= "-T 0"
 
 ZIP_COMPRESSION_LEVEL ?= "-9"
 
@@ -284,7 +283,7 @@ CONVERSIONTYPES = "gz bz2 lzma xz lz4 lzo zip sum md5sum sha1sum sha224sum sha25
 CONVERSION_CMD_lzma = "lzma -k -f -7 ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}"
 CONVERSION_CMD_gz = "pigz -f -9 -n -c ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} > ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.gz"
 CONVERSION_CMD_bz2 = "pbzip2 -f -k ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}"
-CONVERSION_CMD_xz = "xz -f -k -c ${XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} ${XZ_THREADS} --check=${XZ_INTEGRITY_CHECK} ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} > ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.xz"
+CONVERSION_CMD_xz = "xz -f -k -c ${XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} ${XZ_DEFAULTS} --check=${XZ_INTEGRITY_CHECK} ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} > ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.xz"
 CONVERSION_CMD_lz4 = "lz4 -9 -z -l ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.lz4"
 CONVERSION_CMD_lzo = "lzop -9 ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}"
 CONVERSION_CMD_zip = "zip ${ZIP_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.zip ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}"
diff --git a/meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass b/meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass
index 508b7dcaff..d1b317b42b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ IPKGCONF_SDK =  "${WORKDIR}/opkg-sdk.conf"
 PKGWRITEDIRIPK = "${WORKDIR}/deploy-ipks"
 
 # Program to be used to build opkg packages
-OPKGBUILDCMD ??= 'opkg-build -Z xz -a "--threads 0"'
+OPKGBUILDCMD ??= 'opkg-build -Z xz -a "${XZ_DEFAULTS}"'
 
 OPKG_ARGS += "--force_postinstall --prefer-arch-to-version"
 OPKG_ARGS += "${@['', '--no-install-recommends'][d.getVar("NO_RECOMMENDATIONS") == "1"]}"
diff --git a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
index 80fa443e4c..ebc30d39b3 100644
--- a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ fakeroot tar_sdk() {
 	# Package it up
 	mkdir -p ${SDKDEPLOYDIR}
 	cd ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}
-	tar ${SDKTAROPTS} -cf - . | xz -T 0 > ${SDKDEPLOYDIR}/${TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME}.tar.xz
+	tar ${SDKTAROPTS} -cf - . | xz ${XZ_DEFAULTS} > ${SDKDEPLOYDIR}/${TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME}.tar.xz
 }
 
 TOOLCHAIN_SHAR_EXT_TMPL ?= "${COREBASE}/meta/files/toolchain-shar-extract.sh"
diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 21fd93e58d..6e063dc14d 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -791,6 +791,9 @@ BB_NUMBER_THREADS ?= "${@oe.utils.cpu_count()}"
 # Default to setting automatically based on cpu count
 PARALLEL_MAKE ?= "-j ${@oe.utils.cpu_count()}"
 
+# Default parallelism and resource usage for xz
+XZ_DEFAULTS ?= "--memlimit=50% --threads=${@oe.utils.cpu_count()}"
+
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