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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Intermittent perf build failures
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:59:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161011205927.GA24518@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5812c8e3-4bb3-6419-4e3e-c20748e44f96@redhat.com>

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 01:43:36PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While building today's Fedora rawhide kernel, there was a failure
> building perf with -j4 [1]:
> 
> 
>   gcc -Wp,-MD,./.plugin_scsi.o.d,-MT,plugin_scsi.o -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D"BUILD_STR(s)=#s"   -c -o plugin_scsi.o plugin_scsi.c
>    ld  -r -o plugin_function-in.o  plugin_function.o
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -nostartfiles -o plugin_jbd2.so plugin_jbd2-in.o
>   gcc -Wp,-MD,./.plugin_cfg80211.o.d,-MT,plugin_cfg80211.o -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D"BUILD_STR(s)=#s"   -c -o plugin_cfg80211.o plugin_cfg80211.c
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -nostartfiles -o plugin_hrtimer.so plugin_hrtimer-in.o
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -nostartfiles -o plugin_kmem.so plugin_kmem-in.o
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -nostartfiles -o plugin_kvm.so plugin_kvm-in.o
>    ld  -r -o plugin_xen-in.o  plugin_xen.o
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -nostartfiles -o plugin_mac80211.so plugin_mac80211-in.o
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -nostartfiles -o plugin_sched_switch.so plugin_sched_switch-in.o
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -nostartfiles -o plugin_function.so plugin_function-in.o
>    ld  -r -o plugin_cfg80211-in.o  plugin_cfg80211.o
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -nostartfiles -o plugin_xen.so plugin_xen-in.o
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -nostartfiles -o plugin_cfg80211.so plugin_cfg80211-in.o
>   gcc -Wp,-MD,./.plugin_scsi.o.d,-MT,plugin_scsi.o -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fPIC  -I. -I /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/include  '-DPLUGIN_DIR="/usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins"'  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D"BUILD_STR(s)=#s"   -c -o plugin_scsi.o plugin_scsi.c
>    ld  -r -o plugin_scsi-in.o  plugin_scsi.o
> plugin_scsi.o: file not recognized: File truncated
> make[3]: *** [/builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-4.8.fc26/linux-4.9.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc26.aarch64/tools/build/Makefile.build:140: plugin_scsi-in.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:189: plugin_scsi-in.o] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [Makefile.perf:570: libtraceevent_plugins] Error 2
> make: *** [Makefile:109: install-traceevent-plugins] Error 2
> 
> The gcc call to compile plugin_scsi.o seems to be invoked twice which would
> account for the ld failing. Unfortunately, this failure seems to be
> intermittent and I've only been able to reproduce it once outside of
> the Fedora build environment so bisection doesn't seem feasible.

hi,
yep, looks like build race.. but -j4 should not be that bad ;-)

some questions:
  - how often do you see this?
  - is it always plugin_scsi.o failing?
  - hows the build invoked?
  - could you please attach full build log?

thanks,
jirka

> 
> The build invocation for this was changed in
> 0c3b7e42616f ("tools build: Add support for host programs format") so
> I'm suspicious of that commit. I'm reverting that commit for today's
> build but I'm not sure how much that's going to indicate given the
> intermittent nature of the failure.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Laura
> 
> 
> [1] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/415/16050415/build.log

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-11 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-11 20:43 Intermittent perf build failures Laura Abbott
2016-10-11 20:59 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
     [not found]   ` <0babd89f-dd38-89f5-7073-6b74c6692995@redhat.com>
2016-10-12 10:12     ` Jiri Olsa
2016-10-12 18:18       ` Laura Abbott
2016-10-16  7:14         ` Ingo Molnar
2016-10-16 15:01           ` Jiri Olsa

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