[PATCH 01/21] perf tools: Disable parallelism for 'make clean'

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Aug 20 2018 - 12:16:21 EST


From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The Yocto build system does a 'make clean' when rebuilding due to
changed dependencies, and that consistently fails for me (causing the
whole BSP build to fail) with errors such as

| find: '[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/plugin_mac80211.so': No such file or directory
| find: '[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/plugin_mac80211.so': No such file or directory
| find: find: '[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/libtraceevent.a''[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/libtraceevent.a': No such file or directory: No such file or directory
|
[...]
| find: cannot delete '/mnt/xfs/devel/pil/yocto/tmp-glibc/work/wandboard-oe-linux-gnueabi/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/util/.pstack.o.cmd': No such file or directory

Apparently (despite the comment), 'make clean' ends up launching
multiple sub-makes that all want to remove the same things - perhaps
this only happens in combination with a O=... parameter. In any case, we
don't lose much by explicitly disabling the parallelism for the clean
target, and it makes automated builds much more reliable.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180705131527.19749-1-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/Makefile | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
index 225454416ed5..7902a5681fc8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ endif # has_clean
endif # MAKECMDGOALS

#
-# The clean target is not really parallel, don't print the jobs info:
+# Explicitly disable parallelism for the clean target.
#
clean:
- $(make)
+ $(make) -j1

#
# The build-test target is not really parallel, don't print the jobs info,
--
2.14.4