Fix DataFormats/Scouting tests on PowerPC

[iarspider]

Redo of #41189

[iarspider]

please test for el8_ppc64le_gcc11

[iarspider]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-41219/34936

• This PR adds an extra 8KB to repository

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @iarspider for master.

It involves the following packages:

• DataFormats/Scouting (core)

@makortel, @smuzaffar, @Dr15Jones can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@missirol, @rovere this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.

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[iarspider]

please test for el8_ppc64le_gcc11

[VinInn]

adding to the compiler options -mfloat128 It shall compile.
adding -mcpu=power9 (if our target is power9) will even emit the hardware instructions.
see
https://godbolt.org/z/Mqfh33xs7

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-cdac5d/31675/summary.html
COMMIT: 576cda3
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_1_X_2023-03-28-2300/el8_ppc64le_gcc11
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/41219/31675/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @Dominic-Stafford Herwig lhe matching fix #40939
• @dinyar Add loose bits to uGMT muon shower DQM plots #41182
• @civanch Fixed memory grow at SIM step #41213
• @perrotta Remove unneeded header includes from DQM/CTPPS plugins #41204
• @chuyuanliu Fix axis title in tracking validation plots #41212

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-cdac5d/31675/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-cdac5d/31675/git-merge-result

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-cdac5d/31674/summary.html
COMMIT: 576cda3
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_1_X_2023-03-28-2300/el8_amd64_gcc11
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/41219/31674/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @Dominic-Stafford Herwig lhe matching fix #40939
• @dinyar Add loose bits to uGMT muon shower DQM plots #41182
• @civanch Fixed memory grow at SIM step #41213
• @perrotta Remove unneeded header includes from DQM/CTPPS plugins #41204
• @chuyuanliu Fix axis title in tracking validation plots #41212

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-cdac5d/31674/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-cdac5d/31674/git-merge-result

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially added 31 lines to the logs
• Reco comparison results: 12 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 49
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3554236
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 7
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 140
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3554067
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 8.09 KiB( 48 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 11634.0,... ): 0.691 KiB L1T/L1TStage2uGMT
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 11634.0,... ): 0.117 KiB L1TEMU/L1TdeStage2uGMT
• Checked 213 log files, 164 edm output root files, 49 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[smuzaffar]

adding to the compiler options -mfloat128 It shall compile.

@VinInn , this is coming from rootcling . Issue is in root build of llvm see https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-10879 and #31156 .

[smuzaffar]

+core

technical change which fixes unit tests for ppc64le

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[perrotta]

+1