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Masahiro Yamada c5e6ae563c ARC: build: move symlink creation to arch/arc/Makefile to avoid race 
If you run 'make uImage uImage.gz' with the parallel option, uImage.gz
will be created by two threads simultaneously.

This is because arch/arc/Makefile does not specify the dependency
between uImage and uImage.gz. Hence, GNU Make assumes they can be
built in parallel. One thread descends into arch/arc/boot/ to create
uImage, and another to create uImage.gz.

Please notice the same log is displayed twice in the following steps:

  $ export CROSS_COMPILE=<your-arc-compiler-prefix>
  $ make -s ARCH=arc defconfig
  $ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=arc uImage uImage.gz
  [ snip ]
    LD      vmlinux
    SORTTAB vmlinux
    SYSMAP  System.map
    OBJCOPY arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin
    OBJCOPY arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin
    GZIP    arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin.gz
    GZIP    arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin.gz
    UIMAGE  arch/arc/boot/uImage.gz
    UIMAGE  arch/arc/boot/uImage.gz
  Image Name:   Linux-5.10.0-rc4-00003-g62f23044
  Created:      Sun Nov 22 02:52:26 2020
  Image Type:   ARC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
  Data Size:    2109376 Bytes = 2059.94 KiB = 2.01 MiB
  Load Address: 80000000
  Entry Point:  80004000
    Image arch/arc/boot/uImage is ready
  Image Name:   Linux-5.10.0-rc4-00003-g62f23044
  Created:      Sun Nov 22 02:52:26 2020
  Image Type:   ARC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
  Data Size:    2815455 Bytes = 2749.47 KiB = 2.69 MiB
  Load Address: 80000000
  Entry Point:  80004000

This is a race between the two threads trying to write to the same file
arch/arc/boot/uImage.gz. This is a potential problem that can generate
a broken file.

I fixed a similar problem for ARM by commit 3939f33450 ("ARM: 8418/1:
add boot image dependencies to not generate invalid images").

I highly recommend to avoid such build rules that cause a race condition.

Move the uImage rule to arch/arc/Makefile.

Another strangeness is that arch/arc/boot/Makefile compares the
timestamps between $(obj)/uImage and $(obj)/uImage.*:

  $(obj)/uImage: $(obj)/uImage.$(suffix-y)
          @ln -sf $(notdir $<) $@
          @echo '  Image $@ is ready'

This does not work as expected since $(obj)/uImage is a symlink.
The symlink should be created in a phony target rule.

I used $(kecho) instead of echo to suppress the message
'Image arch/arc/boot/uImage is ready' when the -s option is given.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2020-12-01 17:24:05 -08:00
arch ARC: build: move symlink creation to arch/arc/Makefile to avoid race 2020-12-01 17:24:05 -08:00
block block/keyslot-manager: prevent crash when num_slots=1 2020-11-20 11:52:52 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
Documentation Kbuild fixes for v5.10 2020-11-28 10:42:30 -08:00
drivers Yet two more places which invoke tracing from RCU disabled regions in the 2020-11-29 11:19:26 -08:00
fs More EFI fixes for v5.10-rc: 2020-11-29 10:18:53 -08:00
include asm-generic: add correct MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS setting 2020-11-27 15:00:35 -08:00
init Urgent printk fix for 5.10 2020-11-27 10:38:36 -08:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel Yet two more places which invoke tracing from RCU disabled regions in the 2020-11-29 11:19:26 -08:00
lib lib/strncpy_from_user.c: Mask out bytes after NUL terminator. 2020-11-19 11:56:16 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and BUG_ON(PageWriteback) 2020-11-24 15:23:19 -08:00
net linux-can-fixes-for-5.10-20201127 2020-11-27 11:13:39 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2020-11-06 17:49:34 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.10 2020-11-28 10:42:30 -08:00
security selinux/stable-5.10 PR 20201113 2020-11-14 12:04:02 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v5.11 2020-11-19 19:56:29 +01:00
tools perf probe: Change function definition check due to broken DWARF 2020-11-27 14:36:15 -03:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU 2020-10-23 03:42:13 -04:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: docs: ignore sphinx_*/ directories 2020-09-10 10:44:31 -06:00
.mailmap ARM: 2020-11-27 11:04:13 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Samsung changes for v5.10 2020-11-13 13:16:27 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Char/misc driver fixes for 5.10-rc6 2020-11-28 10:04:36 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.10-rc6 2020-11-29 15:50:50 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.