Commit d3fc425e819b ("kbuild: make sure autoksyms.h exists early") moved the code that touches autoksyms.h to scripts/kconfig/Makefile with obscure reason. >From Nicolas' comment [1], he did not seem to be sure about the root cause. I guess I figured it out, so here is a fix-up I think is more correct. According to the error log in the original post [2], the build failed in scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c scripts/mod/Makefile is descended from scripts/Makefile, which is invoked from the top-level Makefile by the 'scripts' target. To build vmlinux and/or modules, Kbuild descend into $(vmlinux-dirs). This depends on 'prepare' and 'scripts' as follows: $(vmlinux-dirs): prepare scripts Because there is no dependency between 'prepare' and 'scripts', the parallel building can run them simultaneously. 'prepare' depends on 'prepare1', which touched autoksyms.h, whereas 'scripts' descends into script/, then scripts/mod/, which needs <generated/autoksyms.h> if CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS. It was the reason of the race. I am not happy to have unrelated code in the Kconfig Makefile, so getting it back to the top Makefile. I removed the standalone test target because I want to use it to create an empty autoksyms.h file. Here is a little improvement; unnecessary autoksyms.h is not created when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is disabled. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/30/734 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/30/531 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: None Makefile | 12 +++++++----- scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 2 -- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index f8e9e12..0a3895c 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1021,9 +1021,11 @@ ifdef CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS "$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile vmlinux" endif -# standalone target for easier testing -include/generated/autoksyms.h: FORCE - $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh true +autoksyms_h := $(if $(CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS), include/generated/autoksyms.h) + +$(autoksyms_h): + $(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@) + $(Q)touch $@ ARCH_POSTLINK := $(wildcard $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile.postlink) @@ -1067,7 +1069,7 @@ include/config/kernel.release: include/config/auto.conf FORCE # in parallel PHONY += scripts scripts: scripts_basic include/config/auto.conf include/config/tristate.conf \ - asm-generic gcc-plugins autoksyms + asm-generic gcc-plugins $(autoksyms_h) $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(@) # Things we need to do before we recursively start building the kernel @@ -1097,7 +1099,7 @@ endif # that need to depend on updated CONFIG_* values can be checked here. prepare2: prepare3 prepare-compiler-check outputmakefile asm-generic -prepare1: prepare2 $(version_h) include/generated/utsrelease.h \ +prepare1: prepare2 $(version_h) $(autoksyms_h) include/generated/utsrelease.h \ include/config/auto.conf $(cmd_crmodverdir) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile index 78c96aa..f9bdd02 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile @@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ nconfig: $(obj)/nconf # for external use. syncconfig: $(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)/conf -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html