linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] kbuild: consolidate Devicetree dtb build rules

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Message-ID: <CAL_JsqJeTqxFPxZfuusPxuOTsVbVk_Uhue6NXwpotkwZWHrCDw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 07:17:14 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] kbuild: consolidate Devicetree dtb build rules

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 5:33 AM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
>
> 2018-09-06 8:53 GMT+09:00 Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>:
> > There is nothing arch specific about building dtb files other than their
> > location under /arch/*/boot/dts/. Keeping each arch aligned is a pain.
> > The dependencies and supported targets are all slightly different.
> > Also, a cross-compiler for each arch is needed, but really the host
> > compiler preprocessor is perfectly fine for building dtbs. Move the
> > build rules to a common location and remove the arch specific ones. This
> > is done in a single step to avoid warnings about overriding rules.
> >
> > The build dependencies had been a mixture of 'scripts' and/or 'prepare'.
> > These pull in several dependencies some of which need a target compiler
> > (specifically devicetable-offsets.h) and aren't needed to build dtbs.
> > All that is really needed is dtc, so adjust the dependencies to only be
> > dtc.
> >
> > This change enables support 'dtbs_install' on some arches which were
> > missing the target.
> >
> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> > Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>
> > Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
> > Cc: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> > Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>
> > Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
> > Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> > Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
> > Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
> > Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> > Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>
> > Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>
> > Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> > Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@...ts.sourceforge.jp
> > Cc: linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
> > Cc: nios2-dev@...ts.rocketboards.org
> > Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
> > Cc: linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
> > ---
> > Please ack so I can take the whole series via the DT tree.
> >
> > v2:
> >  - Fix $arch/boot/dts path check for out of tree builds
> >  - Fix dtc dependency for building built-in dtbs
> >  - Fix microblaze built-in dtb building
>
>
> This breaks parallel building
> because two threads could descend into scripts/dtc
> at the same time.
>
> 'all' depends on both 'scripts' and 'dtc'.
>
> * 'scripts' target -- descends into scripts/, then scripts/dtc
> * 'dtc' target     -- descents into scripts/dtc directly

Any suggestions for how to fix given the problem with depending on
scripts? I suppose I could make scripts depend on dtc instead, but I'd
be back to needing to fix cleaning. Or I could just skip removing the
cross compiler dependency for now.

Rob