Increase layer number for HCAL validation.

[bfonta]

Resolves #50884.

Tested with runTheMatrix.py -l 34434.758 -w upgrade on top of CMSSW_17_0_ASAN_X_2026-05-04-2300.

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[bfonta]

type ngt

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-code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-50929/49320

• There are other open Pull requests which might conflict with changes you have proposed:
  • File Validation/HGCalValidation/plugins/BarrelValidator.cc modified in PR(s): TICL: Consolidate v5 as Default Configuration and Cleanup Legacy Code #49932, TICL-barrel: 3D Pattern recognition in the barrel #50551
  • File Validation/HGCalValidation/src/BarrelVHistoProducerAlgo.cc modified in PR(s): TICL-barrel: 3D Pattern recognition in the barrel #50551

Code check has found code style and quality issues which could be resolved by applying following patch(s)

• code-format:
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  e.g. curl -k https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-50929/49320/code-format.patch | patch -p1
  You can also run scram build code-format to apply code format directly

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+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-50929/49321

• There are other open Pull requests which might conflict with changes you have proposed:
  • File Validation/HGCalValidation/plugins/BarrelValidator.cc modified in PR(s): TICL: Consolidate v5 as Default Configuration and Cleanup Legacy Code #49932, TICL-barrel: 3D Pattern recognition in the barrel #50551
  • File Validation/HGCalValidation/src/BarrelVHistoProducerAlgo.cc modified in PR(s): TICL-barrel: 3D Pattern recognition in the barrel #50551

[cmsbuild]

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

It involves the following packages:

• Validation/HGCalValidation (dqm)

@cmsbuild, @ctarricone, @gabrielmscampos, @nothingface0, @rseidita can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@apsallid, @bsunanda, @cseez, @denizsun, @hatakeyamak, @lecriste, @lgray, @pfs, @rovere, @salimcerci, @sethzenz, @vandreev11 this is something you requested to watch as well.
@ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

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[smuzaffar]

please test workflow 34434.771,34434.758 for CMSSW_17_0_ASAN_X

[smuzaffar]

please test workflow 34434.771,34434.758

[bfonta]

@smuzaffar I noticed that there was a wrong comment on the previous commit. Could you please re-run the tests?

[mmusich]

type bug-fix

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+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-50929/49322

• There are other open Pull requests which might conflict with changes you have proposed:
  • File Validation/HGCalValidation/plugins/BarrelValidator.cc modified in PR(s): TICL: Consolidate v5 as Default Configuration and Cleanup Legacy Code #49932, TICL-barrel: 3D Pattern recognition in the barrel #50551
  • File Validation/HGCalValidation/src/BarrelVHistoProducerAlgo.cc modified in PR(s): TICL-barrel: 3D Pattern recognition in the barrel #50551

[smuzaffar]

please test workflow 34434.771,34434.758 for CMSSW_17_0_ASAN_X

[cmsbuild]

Pull request #50929 was updated. @ctarricone, @gabrielmscampos, @nothingface0, @rseidita can you please check and sign again.

[mmusich]

@brusale FYI

[smuzaffar]

please test workflow 34434.771,34434.758

lets run the normal/default PR tests too

[cmsbuild]

+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 36KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7e3c9a/53227/summary.html
COMMIT: 670b9f4
CMSSW: CMSSW_17_0_X_2026-05-12-2300/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/50929/53227/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 1 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 4 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 55
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 4250219
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 168
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 4250031
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 100.138 KiB( 54 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 34434.758,... ): 50.069 KiB HLT/BarrelCalorimeters
• Checked 233 log files, 201 edm output root files, 55 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

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+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7e3c9a/53222/summary.html
COMMIT: 670b9f4
CMSSW: CMSSW_17_0_ASAN_X_2026-05-11-2300/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/50929/53222/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

[smuzaffar]

Failing relvals in ASAN IBs passed https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7e3c9a/53222/runTheMatrix-results/runall-report-step123-.log

[gabrielmscampos]

+dqm

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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. @ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[mandrenguyen]

+1