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[ Upstream commit 92a4728608a8fd228c572bc8ff50dd98aa0ddf2a ] Dirk Gouders reported that two consecutive "make" invocations on an already compiled tree will show alternating behaviors: $ make CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh DESCEND objtool CHK include/generated/compile.h DATAREL arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#48) Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 165 modules $ make CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh DESCEND objtool CHK include/generated/compile.h LD arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux ZOFFSET arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h AS arch/x86/boot/header.o LD arch/x86/boot/setup.elf OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/setup.bin OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/vmlinux.bin BUILD arch/x86/boot/bzImage Setup is 15644 bytes (padded to 15872 bytes). System is 6663 kB CRC 3eb90f40 Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#48) Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 165 modules He bisected it back to: commit 98f78525371b ("x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations") The root cause was the use of the "if_changed" kbuild function multiple times for the same target. It was designed to only be used once per target, otherwise it will effectively always trigger, flipping back and forth between the two commands getting recorded by "if_changed". Instead, this patch merges the two commands into a single function to get stable build artifacts (i.e. .vmlinux.cmd), and a single build behavior. Bisected-and-Reported-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net> Fix-Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180724230827.GA37823@beast Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.