From 07a422bb213adb7ee1afbb2347ce6922c60a558a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:37:12 +0900 Subject: kbuild: restore autoksyms.h touch to the top Makefile Commit d3fc425e819b ("kbuild: make sure autoksyms.h exists early") moved the code that touches autoksyms.h to scripts/kconfig/Makefile with obscure reason. From Nicolas' comment [1], he did not seem to be sure about the root cause. I guess I figured it out, so here is a fix-up I think is more correct. According to the error log in the original post [2], the build failed in scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c scripts/mod/Makefile is descended from scripts/Makefile, which is invoked from the top-level Makefile by the 'scripts' target. To build vmlinux and/or modules, Kbuild descend into $(vmlinux-dirs). This depends on 'prepare' and 'scripts' as follows: $(vmlinux-dirs): prepare scripts Because there is no dependency between 'prepare' and 'scripts', the parallel building can execute them simultaneously. 'prepare' depends on 'prepare1', which touched autoksyms.h, while 'scripts' descends into script/, then scripts/mod/, which needs if CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS. It was the reason of the race. I am not happy to have unrelated code in the Kconfig Makefile, so getting it back to the top Makefile. I removed the standalone test target because I want to use it to create an empty autoksyms.h file. Here is a little improvement; unnecessary autoksyms.h is not created when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is disabled. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/30/734 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/30/531 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre --- scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'scripts') diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile index cb3ec53a7c29..eb139a17383c 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile @@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ nconfig: $(obj)/nconf # for external use. silentoldconfig: $(obj)/conf $(Q)mkdir -p include/config include/generated - $(Q)test -e include/generated/autoksyms.h || \ - touch include/generated/autoksyms.h $< $(silent) --$@ $(Kconfig) localyesconfig localmodconfig: $(obj)/streamline_config.pl $(obj)/conf -- cgit v1.2.3