Re: [PATCH v2] coccinelle: fix parallel build with CHECK=scripts/coccicheck

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Julia,

2017-11-14 1:45 GMT+09:00 Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>:
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> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
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>> Hi Julia,
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>> 2017-11-14 0:30 GMT+09:00 Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
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>> >> The command "make -j8 C=1 CHECK=scripts/coccicheck" produces lots of
>> >> "coccicheck failed" error messages.
>> >>
>> >> I do not know the coccinelle internals, but I guess --jobs does not
>> >> work well if spatch is invoked from Make running in parallel.
>> >> Disable --jobs in this case.
>> >
>> > Why is this change under:
>> >
>> > if [ "$C" = "1" -o "$C" = "2" ];
>> >
>> > The coccicheck failed messages come also if one runs Coccinelle on the
>> > entire kernel.
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>> As far as I tested, "coccicheck failed" error only happens
>> when ONLINE=1.
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>> make -j8 C=1 CHECK=scripts/coccicheck  COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/misc/bugon.cocci
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>> emits lots of errors.
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>> make -j8 coccicheck  COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/misc/bugon.cocci
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>> is fine.
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>> Have you tested it?
>> Do you mean you got a different result from mine?
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> I agree with your results, with respect to the number of errors.
>
> julia
>

So, what shall we do?

If you do not like to fix it (or you can fix coccinelle itself),
I can take back this patch.

I am not a coccinelle developer, so
setting USE_JOBS="no" is the best I can do.




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada