A common issue in Makefile is a race in parallel building.
You need to be careful to prevent multiple threads from writing to the
same file simultaneously.
Commit 3939f3345050 ("ARM: 8418/1: add boot image dependencies to not
generate invalid images") addressed such a bad scenario.
A similar symptom occurs with the following command:
$ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=loongarch vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi
[ snip ]
SORTTAB vmlinux
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi
PAD arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin
GZIP arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz.o
LD arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz.efi.elf
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinuz.efi
The log "OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi" is displayed twice.
It indicates that two threads simultaneously enter arch/loongarch/boot/
and write to arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi.
It occasionally leads to a build failure:
$ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=loongarch vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi
[ snip ]
SORTTAB vmlinux
OBJCOPY arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.efi
PAD arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin
truncate: Invalid number: ‘arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin’
make[2]: *** [drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile.zboot:13:
arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'arch/loongarch/boot/vmlinux.bin'
make[1]: *** [arch/loongarch/Makefile:146: vmlinuz.efi] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2
vmlinuz.efi depends on vmlinux.efi, but such a dependency is not
specified in arch/loongarch/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/loongarch/Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Makefile b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
index 9eeb0c05f3f4..6022bf3d30c9 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/Makefile
+++ b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ vdso-install-y += arch/loongarch/vdso/vdso.so.dbg
all: $(notdir $(KBUILD_IMAGE))
+vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux.efi
vmlinux.elf vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(bootvars-y) $(boot)/$@
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