[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 05/11] um: let 'make clean' properly clean underlying SUBARCH as well

Sasha Levin
2025-05-19T21:22:46Z

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit ab09da75700e9d25c7dfbc7f7934920beb5e39b9 ]

Building the kernel with O= is affected by stale in-tree build artifacts.

So, if the source tree is not clean, Kbuild displays the following:

$ make ARCH=um O=build defconfig
make[1]: Entering directory '/.../linux/build'
***
*** The source tree is not clean, please run 'make ARCH=um mrproper'
*** in /.../linux
***
make[2]: *** [/.../linux/Makefile:673: outputmakefile] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/.../linux/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/.../linux/build'
make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2

Usually, running 'make mrproper' is sufficient for cleaning the source
tree for out-of-tree builds.

However, building UML generates build artifacts not only in arch/um/,
but also in the SUBARCH directory (i.e., arch/x86/). If in-tree stale
files remain under arch/x86/, Kbuild will reuse them instead of creating
new ones under the specified build directory.

This commit makes 'make ARCH=um clean' recurse into the SUBARCH directory.

Reported-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250502172459.14175-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/um/Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/um/Makefile b/arch/um/Makefile
index 34957dcb88b9c..744c5d0bdeb8f 100644
--- a/arch/um/Makefile
+++ b/arch/um/Makefile
@@ -151,5 +151,6 @@ MRPROPER_FILES += $(HOST_DIR)/include/generated
archclean:
@find . \( -name '*.bb' -o -name '*.bbg' -o -name '*.da' \
-o -name '*.gcov' \) -type f -print | xargs rm -f
+ $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile ARCH=$(HEADER_ARCH) clean

export HEADER_ARCH SUBARCH USER_CFLAGS CFLAGS_NO_HARDENING DEV_NULL_PATH
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