Re: stable build: 203 builds: 4 failed, 199 passed, 5 errors, 41 warnings (v4.10.1)

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:29:07AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> Em Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 02:15:22PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann escreveu:
>> > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:22 AM, gregkh <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > All now queued up in the stable trees, thanks.
>> >
>> > Like 4.9.y it builds clean except for a couple of stack frame size warnings
>> > and this one that continues to puzzle me.
>> >
>> > /bin/sh: 1: /home/buildslave/workspace/kernel-builder/arch/x86/defconfig/allmodconfig+CONFIG_OF=n/label/builder/next/build-x86/tools/objtool//fixdep:
>> > Permission denied
>>
>> Jiri? Josh?
>
> hum, looks like it imight be related to this fix we did for perf:
>   abb26210a395 perf tools: Force fixdep compilation at the start of the build
>
> it's forcing fixdep to be build as first.. having it as a simple dependency
> (which AFAICS is objtool case), the make -jX occasionaly raced on high cpu
> servers, and executed unfinished binary, hence the permission fail

It's probably another variation of this bug, but the commit you cite got merged
into 4.10-rc1, while the problem still persists in mainline (4.11-rc2+).

      Arnd