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

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Message-Id: <20180705131527.19749-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:   Thu,  5 Jul 2018 15:15:27 +0200
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf: disable parallelism for 'make clean'

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>
---
Another option is to add -ignore_readdir_race to all find commands,
but that's a lot more invasive and only works properly together with
-delete with a very recent GNU find
(https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52981).

 tools/perf/Makefile | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
index 225454416ed5..7902a5681fc8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ endif # has_clean
 endif # MAKECMDGOALS
 
 #
-# The clean target is not really parallel, don't print the jobs info:
+# Explicitly disable parallelism for the clean target.
 #
 clean:
-	$(make)
+	$(make) -j1
 
 #
 # The build-test target is not really parallel, don't print the jobs info,
-- 
2.16.4