intel/tools: Use subprocess.Popen to read output directly from a pipe

Instead of using tempfiles to communicate between child & parent
process. The latter sometimes resulted in hitting the meson timeout if
there was high filesystem pressure.

Fixes: ccaa5b034f48 "intel/tools: rewrite run-test.sh in python"
Reviewed-by: Dylan Baker <dylan.c.baker@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/9528>
(cherry picked from commit 05bf12ccb6f290c701ef5b84a7c46e7818bf2c3e)

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/.pick_status.json b/.pick_status.json
index b493743ad33..1af45035f6e 100644
--- a/.pick_status.json
+++ b/.pick_status.json
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@
         "description": "intel/tools: Use subprocess.Popen to read output directly from a pipe",
         "nominated": true,
         "nomination_type": 1,
-        "resolution": 0,
+        "resolution": 1,
         "master_sha": null,
         "because_sha": "ccaa5b034f4845672e22c4bb990a8272a16da15e"
     },
diff --git a/src/intel/tools/tests/run-test.py b/src/intel/tools/tests/run-test.py
index 1dfa305661d..221c991bdb9 100755
--- a/src/intel/tools/tests/run-test.py
+++ b/src/intel/tools/tests/run-test.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import os
 import pathlib
 import subprocess
 import sys
-import tempfile
 
 # The meson version handles windows paths better, but if it's not available
 # fall back to shlex
@@ -37,18 +36,17 @@ success = True
 for asm_file in args.gen_folder.glob('*.asm'):
     expected_file = asm_file.stem + '.expected'
     expected_path = args.gen_folder / expected_file
-    out_path = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
 
     try:
         command = i965_asm + [
             '--type', 'hex',
             '--gen', args.gen_name,
-            '--output', out_path.name,
             asm_file
         ]
-        subprocess.run(command,
-                       stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
-                       stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+        with subprocess.Popen(command,
+                              stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                              stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL) as cmd:
+            lines_after = [line.decode('ascii') for line in cmd.stdout.readlines()]
     except OSError as e:
         if e.errno == errno.ENOEXEC:
             print('Skipping due to inability to run host binaries.',
@@ -58,7 +56,6 @@ for asm_file in args.gen_folder.glob('*.asm'):
 
     with expected_path.open() as f:
         lines_before = f.readlines()
-    lines_after = [line.decode('ascii') for line in out_path]
 
     diff = ''.join(difflib.unified_diff(lines_before, lines_after,
                                         expected_file, asm_file.stem + '.out'))