Re: [PATCH] ARM: omap2: move platform-specific asm-offset.h to arch/arm/mach-omap2

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Mon Aug 26 2019 - 12:20:26 EST


* Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [190822 19:59]:
> <generated/ti-pm-asm-offsets.h> is only generated and included by
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/, so it does not need to reside in the globally
> visible include/generated/.
>
> I renamed it to arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm-asm-offsets.h since the prefix
> 'ti-' is just redundant in mach-omap2/.
>
> My main motivation of this change is to avoid the race condition for
> the parallel build (-j) when CONFIG_IKHEADERS is enabled.
>
> When it is enabled, all the headers under include/ are archived into
> kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz and exposed in the sysfs.
>
> In the parallel build, we have no idea in which order files are built.
>
> - If ti-pm-asm-offsets.h is built before kheaders_data.tar.xz,
> the header will be included in the archive. Probably nobody will
> use it, but it is harmless except that it will increase the archive
> size needlessly.
>
> - If kheaders_data.tar.xz is built before ti-pm-asm-offsets.h,
> the header will not be included in the archive. However, in the next
> build, the archive will be re-generated to include the newly-found
> ti-pm-asm-offsets.h. This is not nice from the build system point
> of view.
>
> - If ti-pm-asm-offsets.h and kheaders_data.tar.xz are built at the
> same time, the corrupted header might be included in the archive,
> which does not look nice either.
>
> This commit fixes the race.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx>

Applying into omap-for-v5.4/soc thanks. The commit is on top of
v5.3-rc1 so it can be merged into other branches if needed after
it's been sitting in Linux next for few days with no issues.

Regards,

Tony