linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf: disable parallelism for 'make clean'

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Date:   Thu, 5 Jul 2018 15:49:55 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: disable parallelism for 'make clean'

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:15:27PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The Yocto build system does a 'make clean' when rebuilding due to
> changed dependencies, and that consistently fails for me (causing the
> whole BSP build to fail) with errors such as
> 
> | find: '[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/plugin_mac80211.so': No such file or directory
> | find: '[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/plugin_mac80211.so': No such file or directory
> | find: find: '[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/libtraceevent.a''[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/libtraceevent.a': No such file or directory: No such file or directory
> |
> [...]
> | find: cannot delete '/mnt/xfs/devel/pil/yocto/tmp-glibc/work/wandboard-oe-linux-gnueabi/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/util/.pstack.o.cmd': No such file or directory
> 
> Apparently (despite the comment), 'make clean' ends up launching
> multiple sub-makes that all want to remove the same things - perhaps
> this only happens in combination with a O=... parameter. In any case, we
> don't lose much by explicitly disabling the parallelism for the clean
> target, and it makes automated builds much more reliable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>

thanks,
jirka