Re: [PATCH LIVEPATCH-BUILD-TOOLS 2/2] Prevent spurious rebuilding

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> Don't change the timestamp of arch/x86/Makefile when editing it since it
> forces much of the Xen tree to be rebuilt and then requires many
> invocations of create-diff-tool.
> 
> This is safe since the Makefile change only changes the final link rule,
> and xen will be relinked anyway.

That looks good, but the patch is missing your SoB.

> ---
>  livepatch-build | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/livepatch-build b/livepatch-build
> index d9d9da3..c057fa1 100755
> --- a/livepatch-build
> +++ b/livepatch-build
> @@ -98,10 +98,13 @@ function build_special()
>      # Build with special GCC flags
>      cd "${SRCDIR}/xen" || die
>      sed -i 's/CFLAGS += -nostdinc/CFLAGS += -nostdinc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections/' Rules.mk
> +    cp -p arch/x86/Makefile arch/x86/Makefile.bak
>      sed -i 's/--section-alignment=0x200000/--section-alignment=0x1000/' arch/x86/Makefile
> +    # Restore timestamps to prevent spurious rebuilding
> +    touch --reference=arch/x86/Makefile.bak arch/x86/Makefile
>      make "-j$CPUS" $XEN_DEBUG &> "${OUTPUT}/build_${name}_compile.log" || die
>      sed -i 's/CFLAGS += -nostdinc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections/CFLAGS += -nostdinc/' Rules.mk
> -    sed -i 's/--section-alignment=0x1000/--section-alignment=0x200000/' arch/x86/Makefile
> +    mv -f arch/x86/Makefile.bak arch/x86/Makefile
>  
>      unset LIVEPATCH_BUILD_DIR
>      unset LIVEPATCH_CAPTURE_DIR
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

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