This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
LoongArch: Add dependency between vmlinuz.efi and vmlinux.efi
to the 6.1-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:
loongarch-add-dependency-between-vmlinuz.efi-and-vml.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b030555698a48f23e5cef26679c8a97a3104e913
Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 21 15:03:25 2023 +0800
LoongArch: Add dependency between vmlinuz.efi and vmlinux.efi
[ Upstream commit d3ec75bc635cb0cb8185b63293d33a3d1b942d22 ]
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>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Makefile b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
index 01b57b7263225..ed47a3a87768e 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/Makefile
+++ b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ vdso_install:
all: $(notdir $(KBUILD_IMAGE))
+vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux.efi
+
vmlinux.elf vmlinux.efi vmlinuz.efi: vmlinux
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(bootvars-y) $(boot)/$@
