linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/7] microblaze: fix race condition in building boot images

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Message-ID: <ccf309af-f225-2c12-cb2f-1d8787d2e4fa@monstr.eu>
Date:   Wed, 5 Dec 2018 17:31:18 +0100
From:   Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] microblaze: fix race condition in building boot
 images

On 03. 12. 18 8:50, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> I fixed a race condition in the parallel building of ARM in commit
> 3939f3345050 ("ARM: 8418/1: add boot image dependencies to not
> generate invalid images").
> 
> I see the same problem for MicroBlaze too.
> 
> "make -j<N> ARCH=microblaze all linux.bin.ub" results in a broken build
> since two threads descend into arch/microblaze/boot simultaneously.

I see also different problem that when I run that make above
linux.bin.ub is not generated at all.


> 
> Add proper dependencies to avoid it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> ---
> 
>  arch/microblaze/Makefile | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/microblaze/Makefile b/arch/microblaze/Makefile
> index 7a5df02..544796d 100644
> --- a/arch/microblaze/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/microblaze/Makefile
> @@ -79,13 +79,15 @@ all: linux.bin
>  archclean:
>  	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(boot)
>  
> +linux.bin.ub linux.bin.gz: linux.bin
> +
>  PHONY += linux.bin linux.bin.gz linux.bin.ub
>  linux.bin linux.bin.gz linux.bin.ub: vmlinux
>  	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(boot)/$@
>  	@echo 'Kernel: $(boot)/$@ is ready' ' (#'`cat .version`')'
>  
>  PHONY += simpleImage.$(DTB)
> -simpleImage.$(DTB): vmlinux
> +simpleImage.$(DTB): linux.bin.ub

It looks weird that simpleImage requires linux.bin.ub.
Is it really linux.bin.ub here or just linux.bin?

>  	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) simple_images
>  	@echo 'Kernel: $(boot)/$@ is ready' ' (#'`cat .version`')'
>  
> 


Thanks,
Michal

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Maintainer of Linux kernel - Xilinx Microblaze
Maintainer of Linux kernel - Xilinx Zynq ARM and ZynqMP ARM64 SoCs
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