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Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7

From Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7
Date 2016-11-30 23:50 +0100
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > It comes back.  The steps to reproduce this are:
> >
> > 1.  checkout latest linux.git
> > 2.  make -j112
> >
> > (IOW, it occurs 100% of the time for me on a clean tree.)

I don't have access to such hardware where -j112 could ever make sense.  :-)
In other words, I can't reproduce regardless of the -j value I try.

> I suspect it's not new, it's just that you are able to hit the timing
> just right (and the new include presumable makes that just be much
> easier).

Here's the best fix I can think of. I can't convince myself any other 
location would be 100% safe.  Obviously I can't confirm if this actually 
fixes anything.

----- >8
Subject: kbuild: make sure autoksyms.h exists early

Some people are able to trigger a race where autoksyms.h is used before
its empty version is even created. Let's create it at the same time as
the directory holding it is created.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 694111b43c..9f9c3b577c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1019,8 +1019,6 @@ prepare2: prepare3 prepare-compiler-check outputmakefile asm-generic
 prepare1: prepare2 $(version_h) include/generated/utsrelease.h \
                    include/config/auto.conf
 	$(cmd_crmodverdir)
-	$(Q)test -e include/generated/autoksyms.h || \
-	    touch   include/generated/autoksyms.h
 
 archprepare: archheaders archscripts prepare1 scripts_basic
 
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
index ebced77deb..90a091b6ae 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ nconfig: $(obj)/nconf
 
 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

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Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-11-30 18:30 +0100
  Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-30 19:20 +0100
    Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2016-11-30 19:30 +0100
      Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-30 19:40 +0100
        Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2016-11-30 20:00 +0100
          Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-11-30 20:10 +0100
          Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-30 20:40 +0100
            Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-11-30 23:50 +0100
              Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:50 +0100
              Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 15:20 +0100
                Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 16:30 +0100
          Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> - 2016-12-01 00:20 +0100
  Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> - 2016-11-30 22:00 +0100
    Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-11-30 22:10 +0100
      Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-11-30 22:40 +0100
        Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> - 2016-11-30 22:50 +0100
          Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> - 2016-11-30 23:00 +0100
            Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 00:50 +0100
              Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> - 2016-12-01 10:10 +0100
                Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> - 2016-12-01 14:50 +0100
                Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-12-01 18:50 +0100
                Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> - 2016-12-01 21:20 +0100
                Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-12-02 21:20 +0100
                Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-12-02 23:50 +0100

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