Re: [PATCH] perf: disable parallelism for 'make clean'

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Jul 05 2018 - 09:50:03 EST


On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:15:27PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The Yocto build system does a 'make clean' when rebuilding due to
> changed dependencies, and that consistently fails for me (causing the
> whole BSP build to fail) with errors such as
>
> | find: '[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/plugin_mac80211.so': No such file or directory
> | find: '[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/plugin_mac80211.so': No such file or directory
> | find: find: '[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/libtraceevent.a''[...]/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/libtraceevent.a': No such file or directory: No such file or directory
> |
> [...]
> | find: cannot delete '/mnt/xfs/devel/pil/yocto/tmp-glibc/work/wandboard-oe-linux-gnueabi/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/util/.pstack.o.cmd': No such file or directory
>
> Apparently (despite the comment), 'make clean' ends up launching
> multiple sub-makes that all want to remove the same things - perhaps
> this only happens in combination with a O=... parameter. In any case, we
> don't lose much by explicitly disabling the parallelism for the clean
> target, and it makes automated builds much more reliable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka