From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
steve.capper@arm.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Wei Chen <wei.chen@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] xen/arm: build: add missed dependency for head.S
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 11:03:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22358.39936.692242.613124@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5755AE26.8020205@arm.com>
Julien Grall writes ("Re: [RFC] xen/arm: build: add missed dependency for head.S"):
> On 03/06/16 11:07, Wei Chen wrote:
> > When we update the header files that had been included in head.S.
> > The build system would not re-compile the head.S. Because in the
> > build rules, the dependencies are setting to .*.d (eg. DEPS = .*.d)
> > files in the same folder as Makefile.
> >
> > But head.S is very special, it was used by the Makefile in the parent
> > folder: "ALL_OBJS := $(TARGET_SUBARCH)/head.o".
> >
> > In this case, the build system could not find the dependency in DEPS.
> > When we update the header files, the build system is unware of this
> > update. If we re-build the Xen without doing make clean or touching
> > the head.S, the build system will not recompile the head.S.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This should be in 4.7 and is a backport candidate.
> > In my mind, the better way to fix this bug is converting the DEPS from
> > ALL_OBJS. But I am afraid of the impact. I am not sure whether there
> > are some dependencies are not generated from obj files.
I do like this idea but I have the same worry. It might be possible
to dump ALL_OBJS out somehow and check this, but it might be
arch-dependent.
Wei Chen's patch is IMO a straightforward fix.
Thanks,
Ian.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-07 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-03 10:07 [RFC] xen/arm: build: add missed dependency for head.S Wei Chen
2016-06-06 17:08 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 10:03 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2016-06-07 4:34 ` [RFC v2] " Wei Chen
2016-06-07 13:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-08 3:10 ` Wei Chen
2016-06-07 16:01 ` [RFC v2] xen/arm: build: add missed dependency for head.S [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson
2016-06-07 16:24 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-08 3:14 ` Wei Chen
2016-06-08 8:09 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-07 10:07 ` [RFC] xen/arm: build: add missed dependency for head.S Julien Grall
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