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SubjectRe: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > It comes back. The steps to reproduce this are:
> >
> > 1. checkout latest linux.git
> > 2. make -j112
> >
> > (IOW, it occurs 100% of the time for me on a clean tree.)

I don't have access to such hardware where -j112 could ever make sense. :-)
In other words, I can't reproduce regardless of the -j value I try.

> I suspect it's not new, it's just that you are able to hit the timing
> just right (and the new include presumable makes that just be much
> easier).

Here's the best fix I can think of. I can't convince myself any other
location would be 100% safe. Obviously I can't confirm if this actually
fixes anything.

----- >8
Subject: kbuild: make sure autoksyms.h exists early

Some people are able to trigger a race where autoksyms.h is used before
its empty version is even created. Let's create it at the same time as
the directory holding it is created.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 694111b43c..9f9c3b577c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1019,8 +1019,6 @@ prepare2: prepare3 prepare-compiler-check outputmakefile asm-generic
prepare1: prepare2 $(version_h) include/generated/utsrelease.h \
include/config/auto.conf
$(cmd_crmodverdir)
- $(Q)test -e include/generated/autoksyms.h || \
- touch include/generated/autoksyms.h

archprepare: archheaders archscripts prepare1 scripts_basic

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
index ebced77deb..90a091b6ae 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ nconfig: $(obj)/nconf

silentoldconfig: $(obj)/conf
$(Q)mkdir -p include/config include/generated
+ $(Q)test -e include/generated/autoksyms.h || \
+ touch include/generated/autoksyms.h
$< $(silent) --$@ $(Kconfig)

localyesconfig localmodconfig: $(obj)/streamline_config.pl $(obj)/conf
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