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Re: Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order"

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On 2016-06-07 03:38, Zanoni, Paulo R wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I recently noticed that alternating between "make" and "make targz-pkg"
> rebuilds the whole Kernel. This was not happening before. As a Kernel
> developer, my build/install/test environment heavily relies on the fact
> that "make targz-pkg" only quickly generates the tarball if everything
> is already built, so this change is heavily impacting my development
> environment.
> 
> I did some bisection and concluded that the first bad commit is:
> 
> commit 9c8fa9bc08f60ac657751daba9fccf828a36cfed
> Author: Masahiro Yamada
> Date:   Sat May 7 15:48:26 2016 +0900
>     kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order
> 
> I also verified that if I just revert this commit on top of the
> most recent tree it goes back to the usual behavior.
> 
> I read the commit message and it seems that some unneeded rebuilds are
> somewhat expected, but I can't understand why such a change in the
> command line like the one I did triggers everything to be rebuilt.
> IMHO, it really shouldn't. I also wonder that maybe the regression I'm
> experiencing was not expected in the original change, so maybe there's
> a way to keep the original improvement caused by the mentioned patch
> without the regression I'm experiencing.
> 
> How to reproduce (exact commands I used at every bisect step):
> 
> $ make tinyconfig
> $ time make -j4 V=2 # this should build things
> $ time make -j4 V=2 # just to make sure nothing will be rebuilt
> $ time make -j4 V=2 targz-pkg

I can reproduce it.

Michal

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Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider  argument order" "Zanoni, Paulo R" <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com> - 2016-06-07 03:40 +0200
  Re: Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider  argument order" Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-06-07 11:40 +0200
    Re: Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider  argument order" Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> - 2016-06-07 12:00 +0200
      Re: Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider  argument order" Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-06-07 12:10 +0200
        Re: Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider  argument order" Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> - 2016-06-07 12:50 +0200
          Re: Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider  argument order" Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-06-07 13:40 +0200
            Re: Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider  argument order" "Zanoni, Paulo R" <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com> - 2016-06-07 16:20 +0200
              Re: Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider  argument order" Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-06-08 00:00 +0200
                Re: Regression in "kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider  argument order" "Zanoni, Paulo R" <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com> - 2016-06-09 01:30 +0200

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