Re: [PATCH] loongarch: add dependency between vmlinuz.efi and vmlinux.efi

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 8:59 PM Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi, Masahiro,
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 1:35 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > A common issue in Makefile is a race in parallel building.
> >
> > You need to be careful to prevent multiple threads from writing to the
> > same file simultaneously.
> >
> > Commit 3939f3345050 ("ARM: 8418/1: add boot image dependencies to not
> > generate invalid images") addressed such a bad scenario.
> >
> > A similar symptom occurs with the following command:
> >
> >   $ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=loongarch vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi
> >     [ snip ]
> >     SORTTAB vmlinux
> >     OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi
> >     OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi
> >     PAD     arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin
> >     GZIP    arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz
> >     OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz.o
> >     LD      arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz.efi.elf
> >     OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz.efi
> >
> > The log "OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi" is displayed twice.
> >
> > It indicates that two threads simultaneously enter arch/loongarch/boot/
> > and write to arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi.
> >
> > It occasionally leads to a build failure:
> >
> >   $ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=loongarch vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi
> >     [ snip ]
> >     SORTTAB vmlinux
> >     OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi
> >     PAD     arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin
> >   truncate: Invalid number: ‘arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin’
> >   make[2]: *** [drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile.zboot:13:
> >   arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin] Error 1
> >   make[2]: *** Deleting file 'arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin'
> >   make[1]: *** [arch/loongarch/Makefile:146: vmlinuz.efi] Error 2
> >   make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >   make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2
> >
> > vmlinuz.efi depends on vmlinux.efi, but such a dependency is not
> > specified in arch/loongarch/Makefile.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> >  arch/loongarch/Makefile | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Makefile b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
> > index 9eeb0c05f3f4..6022bf3d30c9 100644
> > --- a/arch/loongarch/Makefile
> > +++ b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
> > @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ vdso-install-y += arch/loongarch/vdso/vdso.so.dbg
> >
> >  all:   $(notdir $(KBUILD_IMAGE))
> >
> > +vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux.efi
> >  vmlinux.elf vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux
> >         $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(bootvars-y) $(boot)/$@
> It is a little strange, because
>
> in drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile.zboot:
> vmlinuz.efi depends on vmlinuz.efi.elf, vmlinuz.efi.elf depends on
> vmlinuz.o, vmlinuz.o depends on vmlinuz, vmlinuz depends on
> vmlinux.bin, vmlinux.bin depends on $(EFI_ZBOOT_PAYLOAD).
>
> in arch/loongarch/boot/Makefile,
> EFI_ZBOOT_PAYLOAD := vmlinux.efi
>
> So I think vmlinuz.efi has already depend on vmlinux.efi.



That is a story in arch/loongarch/boot/Makefile.


I am talking about arch/loongarch/Makefile,
which is included from the top Makefile.


See this code.


vmlinux.elf vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux
        $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(bootvars-y) $(boot)/$@




Only the required dependency is

 - vmlinux.elf depends on vmlinux
 - vmlinuz.elf depends on vmlinux


vmlinux.elf and vmlinuz.elf are independent of each other.



In parallel building, GNU Make considers that
vmlinux.elf and vmlinuz.elf can be built simultaneously.


GNU Make spawns two processes to execute these simultaneously:

 $(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(bootvars-y) $(boot)/vmlinux.elf
 $(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(bootvars-y) $(boot)/vmlinuz.elf



The former enters arch/loongarch/boot/Makefile to build
vmlinux.elf.  (A)


The latter also enters arch/loongarch/boot/Makefile to build
vmlinuz.elf, which depends on vmlinux.elf  (B)



(A) and (B) are independent processes, hence none of them
know the other.


I hope it is clearer.






> Huacai
>
> >
> > --
> > 2.40.1
> >
> >
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada