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Factor out debug information for the purposes of build hashing [] - #459
because the status-quo build hash is impacted by debug position information, a large amount of changes actually invalidate the hash that are not consequential and don't need retested.
What this PR does is it adds a secondary build that's used only for hashing. This should allow us to have much more stable build cache keys. This would've allowed us to skip hours of CI time for the above change.
The impact of this is fairly minimal as we already omit line numbers in testing recordings so our crash/assertion failure line numbers are fairly insignificant in terms of refactoring what can and cannot be reused.
Most of the complexity involved is brought in from code coverage reports that will have bad line number information if relying on old status information. I had Claude write a script that converts this information for the purposes of our CI so that we can reuse the old report but remap the line numbers relative to the diff ... TBD how well this really works in practice, but it seems like something that we can reasonably improve upon as needed.
EDIT: I've also added in a job to copy changes from the merge_queue to main so that PRs can observe the updated cache state on main. PRs can inherit cache state from their target branch and nowhere else.
Pull-request and merge-queue builds can reuse matching test results. Nightly and manually triggered runs test every toolchain.
Successful merge-queue test records can be made available for reuse by later builds.
Coverage reports include only test runs that ran and are attributed to the tested commit. Pull requests show a coverage link and success status when an upload succeeds; reused results do not contribute coverage.
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- Around line 286-290: Update the UPLOADED=false branch to replace the existing
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The CI workflows hash uninstrumented build products for test-result cache keys, control reuse by event type, and promote eligible merge-queue records after pushes to main. Nightly and manual runs are added. Coverage reporting links available reports through a commit status.
Changes: CI test-result and coverage flow
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Run policy and coverage reporting .github/workflows/build-and-test-ci.yml, .github/codecov.yml
The main workflow adds nightly and manual runs and enables result reuse only for pull requests and merge-queue events. The coverage job reports an available link and may post a success status on a pull request. Codecov status checks, comments, and annotations are disabled.
Toolchain hash and test-result reuse .github/workflows/ci-toolchain.yml
The test cache key uses a hash of uninstrumented build products. When reuse is enabled and a matching result exists, the test leg skips the run and contributes no coverage.
Test records and cache promotion .github/workflows/ci-toolchain.yml, .github/workflows/promote-test-cache.yml
Successful runs record the cache key. Successful merge-queue runs publish records as artifacts. On pushes to main, the promotion workflow finds eligible records and saves them under their cache keys.
sequenceDiagram
participant TestJob
participant MergeQueueRun
participant PromoteWorkflow
participant ActionsCache
TestJob->>MergeQueueRun: Publish passing test record artifact with cache key
PromoteWorkflow->>MergeQueueRun: Find run for pushed commit and list eligible artifacts
PromoteWorkflow->>MergeQueueRun: Download record and read cache_key
PromoteWorkflow->>ActionsCache: Save test record under cache_key
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Possibly related PRs
edgcpp/compiler#429: Introduced the reusable toolchain workflow, test-result cache, coverage flow, and build reproducibility inputs that this PR changes.
Suggested reviewers:sdarwin, darkarc
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 57172
Cached CI runs can leave a stale coverage link, omit coverage, or skip tests after certain Debug-only changes. Resolve or explicitly accept those risks before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 57172
Cached passes are now identified by a separate build that omits security instrumentation. Changes confined to the instrumented build configuration can therefore escape cache invalidation. Promotion extends the potential impact to later matching pull requests, although exact-commit selection and uncached nightly runs limit exposure.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: The new cache identity does not bind a passing result to the instrumented build being tested. Changes confined to Debug/ASan or gcov build configuration can leave the uninstrumented hash unchanged, while these build definitions are not separately included in the key. A matching cache hit then skips validation of the changed instrumented build. Promotion makes such a record available to later matching PR and merge-queue test legs.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — A promoted record can influence every later PR or merge-group run able to restore the main-scoped entry with the same configuration and complete key. The direct outcome is skipping matching test legs, not demonstrated access to production services, secrets, or tenant data.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The supported failure path is a build-definition change that affects only instrumented execution, leaves the uninstrumented products and other key inputs unchanged, and restores an earlier passing record. Test execution is then skipped despite changed security-checking behavior. This requires repository-change capability and a matching accessible cache entry; no such failing revision or credential-compromise path was reproduced.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Promotion selects the named build-and-test workflow with event merge_group and head SHA equal to the pushed main SHA, then downloads records from that selected run. Records normally originate only after successful test execution. These controls substantially constrain provenance; trusting cache_key without further metadata checks alone does not establish an arbitrary-PR poisoning attack.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Failed or interrupted tests cannot normally create a new passing record because creation requires a successful test-step outcome. Missing or expired promotion artifacts produce no promotion, and promotion legs are independent. Scheduled and manual runs provide execution without cache reuse, but the workflows do not revoke an existing record when such a run fails.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Preserve line-number-insensitive reuse while separately binding security-relevant build definitions and effective instrumentation settings into the cache identity. Define an invalidation mechanism for records whose equivalence assumptions are later disproved.
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The title "Factor out debug information for the purposes of build hashing" matches the main change in the changeset. The PR objectives describe a secondary, uninstrumented build used only to compute build hashes, which removes debug and line-number information from the hash input. The changeset adds a hash job to ci-toolchain.yml that performs an uninstrumented Release build with __LINE__=0 and hashes the build products, so the title describes the core change. The title does not mention the other changes, such as the cache promotion workflow, the reuse_results input, and the coverage status reporting. The changeset does not require the title to cover those details.
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Include Debug-only build inputs in the cache key.
214-214: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Include Debug-only build inputs in the cache key.
The hash comes from a Release build, but the tests run a Debug build with ASan. A change to the ASan-only flags in src/CMakeLists.txt can change the tested binary without changing this hash. An existing cache entry then skips the tests for the changed instrumentation. Include build configuration and other Debug-only inputs in the key. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/ci-toolchain.yml at line 214:
Update the test cache key that uses BUILD_HASH to also include the Debug build
configuration and its Debug-only inputs, including ASan flags, so changes to
instrumentation invalidate the cached test result; retain the existing Release
build hash input.
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I noticed over the weekend that two commits were pushed:
because the status-quo build hash is impacted by debug position information, a large amount of changes actually invalidate the hash that are not consequential and don't need retested.
What this PR does is it adds a secondary build that's used only for hashing. This should allow us to have much more stable build cache keys. This would've allowed us to skip hours of CI time for the above change.
The impact of this is fairly minimal as we already omit line numbers in testing recordings so our crash/assertion failure line numbers are fairly insignificant in terms of refactoring what can and cannot be reused.
Most of the complexity involved is brought in from code coverage reports that will have bad line number information if relying on old status information. I had Claude write a script that converts this information for the purposes of our CI so that we can reuse the old report but remap the line numbers relative to the diff ... TBD how well this really works in practice, but it seems like something that we can reasonably improve upon as needed.
EDIT: I've also added in a job to copy changes from the merge_queue to main so that PRs can observe the updated cache state on main. PRs can inherit cache state from their target branch and nowhere else.
This should resolve the issue of something from the merge_queue having a cache saved (e.g., https://github.com/edgcpp/compiler/actions/runs/41233961224/job/124634515640) and then a PR attempting to use that exact same cache key but getting no results (as happened here https://github.com/edgcpp/compiler/actions/runs/41485373032/job/125416924383).
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