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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: kbuild: Ctrl-C of parallel kernel build sometimes corrupts .o.cmd files permanently
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 17:50:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLeot94yAaM4xbMY@gmail.com> (raw)


There's a sporadic kbuild bug that's been happening for years, maybe you 
guys can think of where it comes from.

Sometimes when I Ctrl-C a kernel build job, the .o.cmd file becomes 
corrupted and this breaks the build:


   kernel/.panic.o.cmd:5: *** unterminated call to function 'wildcard': missing ')'.  Stop.

   ...

   drivers/gpu/drm/.drm_blend.o.cmd:5: *** unterminated call to function 'wildcard': missing ')'.  Stop.

The file was just partially created and didn't get cleaned up:

  kepler:~/tip> ls -l drivers/gpu/drm/.drm_blend.o.cmd.corrupted drivers/gpu/drm/.drm_blend.o.cmd.good
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 mingo mingo 28672 Jun  2 17:46 drivers/gpu/drm/.drm_blend.o.cmd.corrupted
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 mingo mingo 51331 Jun  2 17:46 drivers/gpu/drm/.drm_blend.o.cmd.good

The file just got cut in half due to the Ctrl-C:

 --- drivers/gpu/drm/.drm_blend.o.cmd.corrupted  2021-06-02 17:46:16.951428326 +0200
 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/.drm_blend.o.cmd.good       2021-06-02 17:46:34.391111668 +0200
 @@ -646,4 +646,578 @@ deps_drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.o := \
      $(wildcard include/config/OF_OVERLAY) \
    include/linux/kobject.h \
      $(wildcard include/config/UEVENT_HELPER) \
 -    $(wildcard include
 \ No newline at end of file
 +    $(wildcard include/config/DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE) \
 +  include/linux/sysfs.h \
 +  include/linux/kernfs.h \
 +    $(wildcard include/config/KERNFS) \


... but once in this state it can only be fixed by 'make clean' (which 
loses all build progress), or by removing the stale file manually.

It happens more frequently on systems with a lot of CPUs.

Thanks,

	Ingo

             reply	other threads:[~2021-06-02 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-02 15:50 Ingo Molnar [this message]
2021-06-02 18:20 ` kbuild: Ctrl-C of parallel kernel build sometimes corrupts .o.cmd files permanently Masahiro Yamada
2021-06-03 12:39   ` Ingo Molnar
2021-06-03 12:43     ` Ingo Molnar
2021-06-04  3:22       ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-06-09 13:59         ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-06-12 13:25           ` Ingo Molnar

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