Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] scripts: Add a recorduidiv program

Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-12-01T16:20:00Z

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 05:07:05PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 2015-11-30 16:40, Michal Marek wrote:
> > On 2015-11-30 16:32, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 04:11:16PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> >>> On 2015-11-26 00:47, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >>>> Do we have any resolution on these programs which modify the object
> >>>> files in-place, rather than breaking any hard-links which may be
> >>>> present (eg, as a result of using ccache in hard-link mode) ?
> >>>
> >>> Good point, but I do not think anybody is using CCACHE_HARDLINK with the
> >>> kernel.
> >>
> >> That's wrong then, because I've been using it for a very long time with
> >> my nightly builds. :) Therefore, there is somebody!
> >
> > OK.
>
> So, both recordmcount and the new recordudiv program are idempotent.
> They check if the to-be-added section is already present and do nothing.

They hardly "do nothing", as the (eg) recordmcount plasters the build
log with warnings. A solution to that would be to make recordmcount
silent if the section is already present.

> So the result is correct even with CCACHE_HARDLINK, just the
> intermediate file might be incorrect. If this still is considered an
> issue, I suggest clearing CCACHE_HARDLINK when using any of these
> postprocessors, so as not to penalize other use cases.

Another solution would be to have the top level make file unset the
CCACHE_HARDLINK environment variable if any of the options which enable
in-place editing of object files is enabled. Looking at the ccache
code, the environment variable has to be deleted from the environment
to turn off the option - and I'm not sure whether make can delete
environment variables. It certainly can override them, but I see
nothing in the info pages which suggests that environment variables
can be deleted by a makefile.

However, doing it outside of the kernel build system is likely error
prone especially as the kernel configuration options change and/or
their effect changes.

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