Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix random building error

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Tue Sep 01 2015 - 06:40:26 EST


On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 09:24:14AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 01/09/15 08:56, Wang Nan wrote:
> > I hit following building error randomly:
>
> Random presumably because there is a race to use/create the directory by
> different make jobs (i.e. -j option).
>
> >
> > ...
> > /bin/sh: /path/to/kernel/buildperf/util/intel-pt-decoder/inat-tables.c: No such file or directory
> > ...
> > LINK /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_mac80211.so
> > LINK /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_kmem.so
> > LINK /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_xen.so
> > LINK /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_hrtimer.so
> > In file included from util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c:25:0:
> > util/intel-pt-decoder/inat.c:24:25: fatal error: inat-tables.c: No such file or directory
> > #include "inat-tables.c"
> > ^
> > compilation terminated.
> > make[4]: *** [/path/to/kernel/buildperf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.o] Error 1
> > make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > LINK /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_function.so
> >
> > This is caused by tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/Build that, it tries to
> > generate $(OUTPUT)util/intel-pt-decoder/inat-tables.c atomatically but
> > forget to ensure the existance of $(OUTPUT)util/intel-pt-decoder directory.
> >
> > This patch fixes it by adding $(call rule_mkdir) like other similar rules.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks ok to me. Jiri?

right, each separate rule needs to have this

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka
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