Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Drop generated syscall headers from 'targets'

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Feb 23 2021 - 20:09:53 EST


On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 3:14 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Including the generated syscall headers in 'targets' is wrong because they
> are not built in $(obj)/ and the Makefile does its own path prefix and
> build rules.
>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile
> index 6fb9b57ed5ba..b0dcb7e41554 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile
> @@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ syshdr-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += unistd_32_ia32.h unistd_64_x32.h
> syshdr-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += syscalls_64.h
> syshdr-$(CONFIG_XEN) += xen-hypercalls.h
>
> -targets += $(uapisyshdr-y) $(syshdr-y)
> -

This is also a wrong fix.

The correct fix exists in linux-next.

commit 865fa29f7dd1b6af8498fe08f19b4028c1c8a153
Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Feb 15 09:48:22 2021 +0900

arch: syscalls: add missing FORCE and fix 'targets' to make if_changed work


I will send a PR this week.



> PHONY += all
> all: $(addprefix $(uapi)/,$(uapisyshdr-y))
> all: $(addprefix $(out)/,$(syshdr-y))
> --
> 2.27.0
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada