This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: add dependency between vmlinuz.efi and Image
to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm64-add-dependency-between-vmlinuz.efi-and-image.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e933bea28d7c6b0563f8bf8cd82e38a147016dd0
Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Nov 19 14:32:34 2023 +0900
arm64: add dependency between vmlinuz.efi and Image
[ Upstream commit c0a8574204054effad6ac83cc75c02576e2985fe ]
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=arm64 Image vmlinuz.efi
[ snip ]
SORTTAB vmlinux
OBJCOPY arch/arm64/boot/Image
OBJCOPY arch/arm64/boot/Image
AS arch/arm64/boot/zboot-header.o
PAD arch/arm64/boot/vmlinux.bin
GZIP arch/arm64/boot/vmlinuz
OBJCOPY arch/arm64/boot/vmlinuz.o
LD arch/arm64/boot/vmlinuz.efi.elf
OBJCOPY arch/arm64/boot/vmlinuz.efi
The log "OBJCOPY arch/arm64/boot/Image" is displayed twice.
It indicates that two threads simultaneously enter arch/arm64/boot/
and write to arch/arm64/boot/Image.
It occasionally leads to a build failure:
$ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=arm64 Image vmlinuz.efi
[ snip ]
SORTTAB vmlinux
OBJCOPY arch/arm64/boot/Image
PAD arch/arm64/boot/vmlinux.bin
truncate: Invalid number: 'arch/arm64/boot/vmlinux.bin'
make[2]: *** [drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile.zboot:13:
arch/arm64/boot/vmlinux.bin] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'arch/arm64/boot/vmlinux.bin'
make[1]: *** [arch/arm64/Makefile:163: vmlinuz.efi] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2
vmlinuz.efi depends on Image, but such a dependency is not specified
in arch/arm64/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: SImon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231119053234.2367621-1-masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index 2d49aea0ff67a..26b8c7630a214 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ endif
all: $(notdir $(KBUILD_IMAGE))
-
+vmlinuz.efi: Image
Image vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(boot)/$@
