[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 18/40] LoongArch: Add dependency between vmlinuz.efi and vmlinux.efi

Sasha Levin
2023-11-28T21:07:47Z

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit d3ec75bc635cb0cb8185b63293d33a3d1b942d22 ]

A common issue in Makefile is a race in parallel building.

You need to be careful to prevent multiple threads from writing to the
same file simultaneously.

Commit 3939f3345050 ("ARM: 8418/1: add boot image dependencies to not
generate invalid images") addressed such a bad scenario.

A similar symptom occurs with the following command:

$ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=loongarch vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi
[ snip ]
SORTTAB vmlinux
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi
PAD arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin
GZIP arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz.o
LD arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz.efi.elf
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz.efi

The log "OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi" is displayed twice.

It indicates that two threads simultaneously enter arch/loongarch/boot/
and write to arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi.

It occasionally leads to a build failure:

$ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=loongarch vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi
[ snip ]
SORTTAB vmlinux
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi
PAD arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin
truncate: Invalid number: ‘arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin’
make[2]: *** [drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile.zboot:13:
arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin'
make[1]: *** [arch/loongarch/Makefile:146: vmlinuz.efi] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2

vmlinuz.efi depends on vmlinux.efi, but such a dependency is not
specified in arch/loongarch/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/loongarch/Makefile | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Makefile b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
index fb0fada43197e..96747bfec1a10 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/Makefile
+++ b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ vdso_install:

all: $(notdir $(KBUILD_IMAGE))

+vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux.efi
+
vmlinux.elf vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(bootvars-y) $(boot)/$@

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