kbuild: fix parallel build race caused by u-boot.cfg regeneration
authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:11:39 +0000 (23:11 +0900)
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 20:28:52 +0000 (15:28 -0500)
commit0b588deffe5f925dbef96945e6c3b5ab65be6a33
treeb12c58f0fa7a770eaa9155ce045ca2e12bd152b6
parentc4448bdc4fb398478bc8499cfcf85fca3c36ad08
kbuild: fix parallel build race caused by u-boot.cfg regeneration

Multiple people have reported intermittent build failure in parallel
building.

Kever Yang reported this issue some time ago [1], but I could not
get enough clue at that time.

This time, Richard Purdie provided a full build log [2], which was
very helpful for me to root-cause it.

The cause of the problem is commit 0d982c585330 ("Makefile: add
dependencies to regenerate u-boot.cfg when lost").

That commit added the 'cfg' as the prerequisite of the 'all' target,
so the parallel build tries to run it simultaneously, then regenerates
a symlink while building objects.

When u-boot.cfg is accidentally lost, let's rebuild it before
descending into any subdirectories.

Also, what is annoying is u-boot.cfg is currently regenerated every
time since it depends on FORCE. We can get rid of all the prerequisites
of u-boot.cfg because u-boot.cfg is rebuilt anyway as the byproduct of
auto.conf when a user updates the .config file.

[1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2018-June/330341.html
[2] https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/65/builds/160/steps/7/logs/step1b

Fixes: 0d982c585330 ("Makefile: add dependencies to regenerate u-boot.cfg when lost")
Reported-by: Kever Yang <kever.yang@rock-chips.com>
Reported-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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