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From: "Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas@t-8ch.de>
To: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Build System <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] make bindeb-pkg: When just one source line in a single driver is changed, all driver are rebuilt?
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:43:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9748bda4-0db8-4c70-a321-c7189d575cbc@t-8ch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f96d57c9-efda-4781-a395-a7c5fec7f2ad@gmail.com>

Hi Mirsad,

On 2024-11-21 22:18:58+0100, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
> I am perplexed now at 6.12 stable vanilla tree, and I've noticed that after changing just one
> line in ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe/tests/xe_migrate.c:226:5-11, all unrelated drivers are being BTF'd, SIGNED,
> and INSTALL-ed:
> 
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/aht10.ko
>   INSTALL debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.ko
>   STRIP   debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/atxp1.ko
>   INSTALL debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/corsair-cpro.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/adt7475.ko
>   STRIP   debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/axi-fan-control.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/as370-hwmon.ko
>   STRIP   debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/chipcap2.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/aquacomputer_d5next.ko
>   STRIP   debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.ko
>   INSTALL debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/corsair-psu.ko
>   STRIP   debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/corsair-cpro.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/asus_rog_ryujin.ko
>   INSTALL debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/cros_ec_hwmon.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/asc7621.ko
>   INSTALL debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/da9052-hwmon.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/atxp1.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/axi-fan-control.ko
>   STRIP   debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/corsair-psu.ko
>   INSTALL debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/da9055-hwmon.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/chipcap2.ko
>   STRIP   debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/cros_ec_hwmon.ko
>   STRIP   debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/da9052-hwmon.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/corsair-cpro.ko
>   INSTALL debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.ko

This happens when the vermagic is changed. The vermagic is linked into
each module. And after relinking all the other steps also need to be
done.
Building the Debian package increases the build number which ends up in
the vermagic and therefore all modules.
Also there is CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO which may be involved.

> Is there an option to rebuild just the necessary driver that was modified?

With the whole Debian packaging: No idea.
With plain kbuild: make $MAKEFLAGS $PATH_TO_MODULE.ko

> 2.
> 
> >From the list of files that were compiled, it seems that drivers/gpu/drm/xe/tests/xe_migrate.c was
> not rebult:
> 
> $ grep CC ../err-6.12.0-tiny-pt-02b.log
>   CC      init/version.o
>   CC      init/version-timestamp.o
>   CC      arch/x86/boot/version.o
>   CC      arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.o
>   CC      arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.o
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/kallsyms
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/sorttable
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/asn1_compiler
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/selinux/mdp/mdp
>   YACC    debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.[ch]
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/sign-file
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/insert-sys-cert
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.o
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/genksyms/lex.lex.o
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/mod/modpost.o
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/mod/file2alias.o
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/mod/sumversion.o
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/mod/symsearch.o
>   HOSTCC  debian/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.0-dirty/scripts/basic/fixdep
> 
> But they were only BTF + INSTALL + STRIP + SIGN'ed:
> 
> $ grep drivers/gpu/drm/xe/ ../err-6.12.0-tiny-pt-02b.log
>   BTF [M] drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe.ko
>   INSTALL debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe.ko
>   STRIP   debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe.ko
>   SIGN    debian/linux-image-6.12.0-dirty/lib/modules/6.12.0-dirty/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe.ko
> 
> Nothing suggests that "drivers/gpu/drm/xe/tests/xe_migrate.c" is being recompiled, though it was modified,
> or at least "touch"-ed.

Do you have CONFIG_DRM_XE_KUNIT_TEST enabled?
It probably does not make sense to use Debian packaging for a kunit
test. Just use kunit.py directly.

> Is this the expected behaviour?
> 
> (I have deliberately skipped "make clean", to see if I can save some building time and grid power.)


Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-21 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-21 21:18 [PROBLEM] make bindeb-pkg: When just one source line in a single driver is changed, all driver are rebuilt? Mirsad Todorovac
2024-11-21 21:43 ` Thomas Weißschuh [this message]
2024-11-23  1:53   ` Mirsad Todorovac
2024-11-23 14:57     ` Thomas Weißschuh
2024-11-25 19:10       ` Mirsad Todorovac

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