On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 06:03:01PM +0200 Vegard Nossum wrote: > Prefixing a line in a make recipe with + makes that command execute even > in --dry-run mode. We don't need that here; remove it. In case somebody else also wants to know why make behaves that way: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#MAKE-Variable > > Fixes: 5f9ae91f7c0d ("kbuild: Build kernel module BTFs if BTF is enabled and pahole supports it") > Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > scripts/Makefile.modfinal | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal > index 696888f0a0bde..2679304f158ad 100644 > --- a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal > @@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ if_changed_except = $(if $(call newer_prereqs_except,$(2))$(cmd-check), \ > > # Re-generate module BTFs if either module's .ko or vmlinux changed > %.ko: %.o %.mod.o scripts/module.lds $(and $(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES),$(KBUILD_BUILTIN),vmlinux) FORCE > - +$(call if_changed_except,ld_ko_o,vmlinux) > + $(call if_changed_except,ld_ko_o,vmlinux) > ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES > - +$(if $(newer-prereqs),$(call cmd,btf_ko)) > + $(if $(newer-prereqs),$(call cmd,btf_ko)) I assumed that some ld might evaluate the jobserver variables (MAKEFLAGS), but following the discussion in [1], this does not seem to be relevant. Can you at a note to the commit message, that there is no need to run $(LD) or $(PAHOLE) in parallel here? [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220616104541.16289-1-jslaby@xxxxxxx/#t