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

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> 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.

julia


>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
>   - Grep '-j' instead of '--jobserver-auth'.
>     '--jobserver-*' is not a stable option flag.
>     Make 4.2 change '--jobserver-fds' into '--jobserver-auth'
>   - Add -q option to grep
>
>  scripts/coccicheck | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
> index 040a8b1..8bab11e 100755
> --- a/scripts/coccicheck
> +++ b/scripts/coccicheck
> @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ if [ "$C" = "1" -o "$C" = "2" ]; then
>      # Take only the last argument, which is the C file to test
>      shift $(( $# - 1 ))
>      OPTIONS="$COCCIINCLUDE $1"
> +
> +    # --jobs does not work if Make is running in parallel
> +    echo $MAKEFLAGS | grep -q -E '(^| )-j' && USE_JOBS="no"
>  else
>      ONLINE=0
>      if [ "$KBUILD_EXTMOD" = "" ] ; then
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>