Backport jitlink ppc64

[smuzaffar]

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A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar (Malik Shahzad Muzaffar) for branch cms/master/329fb5ae0c.

@aandvalenzuela, @iarspider, @smuzaffar, @cmsbuild can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@sextonkennedy, @rappoccio, @antoniovilela you are the release manager for this.
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[smuzaffar]

please test for CMSSW_14_0_ROOT6_X/el8_ppc64le_gcc12

[smuzaffar]

please test for CMSSW_14_0_ROOT6_X/el8_amd64_gcc12

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a17b74/36620/summary.html
COMMIT: 28b6037
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_0_ROOT6_X_2023-12-20-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/root/192/36620/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 165 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 990 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3247277
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 6273
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3240982
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 47 files compared)
• Checked 200 log files, 161 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

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-1

Failed Tests: UnitTests
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a17b74/36619/summary.html
COMMIT: 28b6037
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_0_ROOT6_X_2023-12-20-2300/el8_ppc64le_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/root/192/36619/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Unit Tests

I found 1 errors in the following unit tests:

---> test TestConfigDP had ERRORS

[vgvassilev]

@smuzaffar, should we worry about this failure? Is it related to the new ppc backend or there is a problem somewhere else?

[smuzaffar]

No @vgvassilev , this unit tests is failing in our IBs anyway. So please ignore this failure.