linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] MIPS: boot: correct prerequisite image of vmlinux.*.its

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:22:29 -0700
From:   Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
CC:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        "linux-mips@...ux-mips.org" <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] MIPS: boot: correct prerequisite image of
 vmlinux.*.its

Hi Masahiro,

Thanks for these - I've applied patches 1-3, 5 & 6 to mips-next for
4.19.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 07:47:44AM -0700, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> vmlinux.*.its does not directly depend on $(VMLINUX) but
> vmlinux.bin.*

This isn't really true - to generate the .its we actually do depend on
the ELF, which we read the entry address from (entry-y in
arch/mips/Makefile, provided to arch/mips/boot/Makefile as
VMLINUX_ENTRY_ADDRESS). In practice $(VMLINUX) is built before this
makefile is ever invoked anyway, but the dependency is there.

We don't need the vmlinux.bin.* file until we generate the .itb, so it
should be fine for the .its & .bin steps to be executed in parallel
which this patch would prevent.

Thanks,
    Paul