ARC: build: move symlink creation to arch/arc/Makefile to avoid race

If you run 'make uImage uImage.gz' with the parallel option, uImage.gz
will be created by two threads simultaneously.

This is because arch/arc/Makefile does not specify the dependency
between uImage and uImage.gz. Hence, GNU Make assumes they can be
built in parallel. One thread descends into arch/arc/boot/ to create
uImage, and another to create uImage.gz.

Please notice the same log is displayed twice in the following steps:

  $ export CROSS_COMPILE=<your-arc-compiler-prefix>
  $ make -s ARCH=arc defconfig
  $ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=arc uImage uImage.gz
  [ snip ]
    LD      vmlinux
    SORTTAB vmlinux
    SYSMAP  System.map
    OBJCOPY arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin
    OBJCOPY arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin
    GZIP    arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin.gz
    GZIP    arch/arc/boot/vmlinux.bin.gz
    UIMAGE  arch/arc/boot/uImage.gz
    UIMAGE  arch/arc/boot/uImage.gz
  Image Name:   Linux-5.10.0-rc4-00003-g62f23044
  Created:      Sun Nov 22 02:52:26 2020
  Image Type:   ARC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
  Data Size:    2109376 Bytes = 2059.94 KiB = 2.01 MiB
  Load Address: 80000000
  Entry Point:  80004000
    Image arch/arc/boot/uImage is ready
  Image Name:   Linux-5.10.0-rc4-00003-g62f23044
  Created:      Sun Nov 22 02:52:26 2020
  Image Type:   ARC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
  Data Size:    2815455 Bytes = 2749.47 KiB = 2.69 MiB
  Load Address: 80000000
  Entry Point:  80004000

This is a race between the two threads trying to write to the same file
arch/arc/boot/uImage.gz. This is a potential problem that can generate
a broken file.

I fixed a similar problem for ARM by commit 3939f3345050 ("ARM: 8418/1:
add boot image dependencies to not generate invalid images").

I highly recommend to avoid such build rules that cause a race condition.

Move the uImage rule to arch/arc/Makefile.

Another strangeness is that arch/arc/boot/Makefile compares the
timestamps between $(obj)/uImage and $(obj)/uImage.*:

  $(obj)/uImage: $(obj)/uImage.$(suffix-y)
          @ln -sf $(notdir $<) $@
          @echo '  Image $@ is ready'

This does not work as expected since $(obj)/uImage is a symlink.
The symlink should be created in a phony target rule.

I used $(kecho) instead of echo to suppress the message
'Image arch/arc/boot/uImage is ready' when the -s option is given.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arc/Makefile b/arch/arc/Makefile
index cf9da9aea12a..578bdbbb0fa7 100644
--- a/arch/arc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arc/Makefile
@@ -102,11 +102,22 @@ libs-y		+= arch/arc/lib/ $(LIBGCC)
 
 boot		:= arch/arc/boot
 
-boot_targets := uImage uImage.bin uImage.gz uImage.lzma
+boot_targets := uImage.bin uImage.gz uImage.lzma
 
 PHONY += $(boot_targets)
 $(boot_targets): vmlinux
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(boot)/$@
 
+uimage-default-y			:= uImage.bin
+uimage-default-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP)	:= uImage.gz
+uimage-default-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA)	:= uImage.lzma
+
+PHONY += uImage
+uImage: $(uimage-default-y)
+	@ln -sf $< $(boot)/uImage
+	@$(kecho) '  Image $(boot)/uImage is ready'
+
+CLEAN_FILES += $(boot)/uImage
+
 archclean:
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(boot)