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![]() When a header file is changed, kernel/gen_kheaders.sh may fail to update kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz. [steps to reproduce] [1] Build kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz $ make -j$(nproc) kernel/kheaders.o DESCEND objtool INSTALL libsubcmd_headers CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz GEN kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz CC kernel/kheaders.o [2] Modify a header without changing the file size $ sed -i s/0xdeadbeef/0xfeedbeef/ include/linux/elfnote.h [3] Rebuild kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz $ make -j$(nproc) kernel/kheaders.o DESCEND objtool INSTALL libsubcmd_headers CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz is not updated if steps [1] - [3] are run within the same minute. The headers_md5 variable stores the MD5 hash of the 'ls -l' output for all header files. This hash value is used to determine whether kheaders_data.tar.xz needs to be rebuilt. However, 'ls -l' prints the modification times with minute-level granularity. If a file is modified within the same minute and its size remains the same, the MD5 hash does not change. To reliably detect file modifications, this commit rewrites kernel/gen_kheaders.sh to output header dependencies to kernel/.kheaders_data.tar.xz.cmd. Then, Make compares the timestamps and reruns kernel/gen_kheaders.sh when necessary. This is the standard mechanism used by Make and Kbuild. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> |
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README |
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.