Masahiro Yamada ca2fc0dc1c ARC: build: move symlink creation to arch/arc/Makefile to avoid race ... [ Upstream commit c5e6ae563c ] If you run 'make uImage uImage.gz' with the parallel option, uImage.gz will be created by two threads simultaneously. This is because arch/arc/Makefile does not specify the dependency between uImage and uImage.gz. Hence, GNU Make assumes they can be built in parallel. One thread descends into arch/arc/boot/ to create uImage, and another to create uImage.gz. Please notice the same log is displayed twice in the following steps: $ export CROSS_COMPILE=<your-arc-compiler-prefix> $ make -s ARCH=arc defconfig $ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=arc uImage uImage.gz [ snip ] LD vmlinux SORTTAB vmlinux SYSMAP System.map OBJCOPY arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin OBJCOPY arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin GZIP arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin.gz GZIP arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin.gz UIMAGE arch/arc/boot/uImage.gz UIMAGE arch/arc/boot/uImage.gz Image Name: Linux-5.10.0-rc4-00003-g62f23044 Created: Sun Nov 22 02:52:26 2020 Image Type: ARC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 2109376 Bytes = 2059.94 KiB = 2.01 MiB Load Address: 80000000 Entry Point: 80004000 Image arch/arc/boot/uImage is ready Image Name: Linux-5.10.0-rc4-00003-g62f23044 Created: Sun Nov 22 02:52:26 2020 Image Type: ARC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 2815455 Bytes = 2749.47 KiB = 2.69 MiB Load Address: 80000000 Entry Point: 80004000 This is a race between the two threads trying to write to the same file arch/arc/boot/uImage.gz. This is a potential problem that can generate a broken file. I fixed a similar problem for ARM by commit 3939f33450 ("ARM: 8418/1: add boot image dependencies to not generate invalid images"). I highly recommend to avoid such build rules that cause a race condition. Move the uImage rule to arch/arc/Makefile. Another strangeness is that arch/arc/boot/Makefile compares the timestamps between $(obj)/uImage and $(obj)/uImage.*: $(obj)/uImage: $(obj)/uImage.$(suffix-y) @ln -sf $(notdir $<) $@ @echo ' Image $@ is ready' This does not work as expected since $(obj)/uImage is a symlink. The symlink should be created in a phony target rule. I used $(kecho) instead of echo to suppress the message 'Image arch/arc/boot/uImage is ready' when the -s option is given. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>		2021-01-19 18:26:14 +01:00
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dts	ARC: [dts] fix the errors detected by dtbs_check	2020-11-05 11:43:19 +01:00
.gitignore	.gitignore: move *.dtb and *.dtb.S patterns to the top-level .gitignore	2017-11-08 11:20:24 -06:00
Makefile	ARC: build: move symlink creation to arch/arc/Makefile to avoid race	2021-01-19 18:26:14 +01:00