Re: [PATCH 1/3] fuzz/x86emul: avoid race in link farm rune

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 04:44:45AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 17.02.17 at 12:36, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 03:33:26AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 17.02.17 at 11:12, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 07:10:41PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >> >> On 16/02/17 18:56, Wei Liu wrote:
> >> >> > --- a/tools/fuzz/x86_instruction_emulator/Makefile
> >> >> > +++ b/tools/fuzz/x86_instruction_emulator/Makefile
> >> >> > @@ -8,12 +8,16 @@ else
> >> >> >  x86-instruction-emulator-fuzzer-all:
> >> >> >  endif
> >> >> >  
> >> >> > -x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c x86_emulate/x86_emulate.h:
> >> >> > +x86_emulate:
> >> >> >  	[ -L x86_emulate ] || ln -sf $(XEN_ROOT)/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate .
> >> >> >  
> >> >> > -asm/x86-vendors.h asm/x86-defns.h asm/msr-index.h:
> >> >> > +x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c x86_emulate/x86_emulate.h: x86_emulate
> >> >> 
> >> >> You should be able to do this:
> >> >> 
> >> >> x86_emulate/%: x86_emulate
> >> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > Using % won't work. Jan made a similar comment during the first
> >> > iteration of the fuzzer series. It turned out that we needed to list
> >> > explicitly every file because of the other rules explicitly listed
> >> > those files.
> >> 
> >> There was something in that area, but explicitly mentioning files
> >> elsewhere should not prevent this dependency to work as long as
> >> the files don't exist without the rule's commands having run.
> > 
> > I didn't dig out the old email so the description of the cause might be
> > inaccurate.
> > 
> > Do you want me to do anything other than explicitly listing every file
> > as we did before? I'm not sure I get your request.
> 
> Well, I'd prefer the shorter variant Andrew did suggest, so if that's
> not possible to be used here, I think it would help if the reason was
> recorded (in the commit message) now, to avoid later having the
> discussion yet another time.

I think I figure out how to make it work. New version of patches coming
soon.

Wei.

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