linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] asm-generic updates for 6.11

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Message-ID: <Zpd-Bx3VwrYWVeTs@hovoldconsulting.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:17:11 +0200
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
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	linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
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	linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] asm-generic updates for 6.11

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 10:01:10AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024, at 08:41, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > FWIW, I noticed this last Friday as well when I did a few builds of
> > linux-next and every change I made triggered what appeared to be a full
> > rebuild of the tree.
> >
> > This was with a trimmed config [1] and separate build tree (tmpfs).
> 
> Thanks, that makes it quicker to try out. I'm now using
> your config to do more testing. I still don't see it with
> a normal build though.
> 
> I do see that setting the timestamp of syscall.tbl to
> a future date does result in always rebuilding everything,
> but I don't think that is what you are seeing, since that
> also produces a warning from make:
> 
> arnd@...dio:~/arm-soc/build/bisect$ touch -t 202501010000 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl 
> arnd@...dio:~/arm-soc/build/bisect$ make ARCH=x86 CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux- 
> make[2]: Warning: File 'arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl' has modification time 14483017 s in the future
>   SYSHDR  arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_64.h
>   SYSHDR  arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_x32.h
>   SYSHDR  arch/x86/include/generated/asm/unistd_64_x32.h
>   SYSTBL  arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h
> make[2]: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.

Yeah, that's not something I noticed at least (and I assume I would
have). And I only did aarch64 builds on a 6.9 x86_64 host (make 4.4.1).

Johan