Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v3] coccinelle: fix parallel build with CHECK=scripts/coccicheck

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On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:04:49PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
> index 040a8b1..7da82a1 100755
> --- a/scripts/coccicheck
> +++ b/scripts/coccicheck
> @@ -70,6 +64,13 @@ if [ "$C" = "1" -o "$C" = "2" ]; then
>      # Take only the last argument, which is the C file to test
>      shift $(( $# - 1 ))
>      OPTIONS="$COCCIINCLUDE $1"
> +
> +    # If -j option is given to Make, scripts/coccicheck runs in parallel.
> +    # If coccinelle also runs in parallel, it fails because multiple processes
> +    # try to get access to the same subdirectory that stores stdout/stderr.
> +    # No need to parallelize coccinelle in this case - this mode takes only
> +    # one file input.
> +    NPROC=1

Shouldn't this also warn to the user, and recommend to use a proper form to
parallelize coccinelle? Otherwise a user might get the impression they are
parallelizing coccinelle where they really did not.

  Luis

>  else
>      ONLINE=0
>      if [ "$KBUILD_EXTMOD" = "" ] ; then
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