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SubjectRe: [PATCH 10/10] kbuild: mark $(targets) as .SECONDARY and remove .PRECIOUS specifier
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On 03/23/18 06:04, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> GNU Make automatically deletes intermediate files that are updated
> in a chain of pattern rules.
>
> Example 1) %.dtb.o <- %.dtb.S <- %.dtb.S <- %.dts
> Example 2) %.o <- %.c <- %.c_shipped
>
> A couple of makefiles mark such targets as .PRECIOUS to prevent Make
> from deleting them, but the correct way is to use .SECONDARY.
>
> .SECONDARY
> Prerequisites of this special target are treated as intermediate
> files but are never automatically deleted.
>
> .PRECIOUS
> When make is interrupted during execution, it may delete the target
> file it is updating if the file was modified since make started.
> If you mark the file as precious, make will never delete the file
> if interrupted.
>
> Both can avoid deletion of intermediate files, but the difference is
> the behavior when Make is interrupted; .SECONDARY deletes the target,
> but .PRECIOUS does not.
>
> The use of .PRECIOUS is relatively rare since we do not want to keep
> partially constructed (possibly corrupted) targets.
>
> Another difference is that .PRECIOUS works with pattern rules whereas
> .SECONDARY does not.
>
> .PRECIOUS: $(obj)/%.lex.c
>
> works, but
>
> .SECONDARY: $(obj)/%.lex.c
>
> has no effect. However, for the reason above, I do not want to use
> .PRECIOUS to avoid obscure build breakage.
>
> The targets specified as .SECONDARY must be explicit. $(targets)
> contains all targets that need to include .*.cmd files. So, the
> intermediates you want to keep are likely to be contained in
> $(targets). So, mark it as .SECONDARY. The exception is when they
> are created by $(call cmd,...) instead of $(call if_changed,...)
> since the former does not need to include .*.cmd file. In this
> case, makefiles need to mark them .SECONDARY by themselves, like
> arch/arm(64)/crypto/Makefile.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

Acked-by: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>

-Frank

> ---
>
> arch/arc/boot/dts/Makefile | 2 --
> arch/arm/crypto/Makefile | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/crypto/Makefile | 2 +-
> arch/metag/boot/dts/Makefile | 2 --
> drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile | 4 ----
> scripts/Makefile.build | 6 ++++--
> scripts/Makefile.lib | 3 ---
> 7 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arc/boot/dts/Makefile b/arch/arc/boot/dts/Makefile
> index 22a4c5d..a83c4f5 100644
> --- a/arch/arc/boot/dts/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arc/boot/dts/Makefile
> @@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ endif
> obj-y += $(builtindtb-y).dtb.o
> dtb-y := $(builtindtb-y).dtb
>
> -.SECONDARY: $(obj)/$(builtindtb-y).dtb.S
> -
> # for CONFIG_OF_ALL_DTBS test
> dtstree := $(srctree)/$(src)
> dtb- := $(patsubst $(dtstree)/%.dts,%.dtb, $(wildcard $(dtstree)/*.dts))
> diff --git a/arch/arm/crypto/Makefile b/arch/arm/crypto/Makefile
> index 30ef8e2..3d59567 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/crypto/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/crypto/Makefile
> @@ -63,4 +63,4 @@ $(src)/sha256-core.S_shipped: $(src)/sha256-armv4.pl
> $(src)/sha512-core.S_shipped: $(src)/sha512-armv4.pl
> $(call cmd,perl)
>
> -.PRECIOUS: $(obj)/sha256-core.S $(obj)/sha512-core.S
> +.SECONDARY: $(obj)/sha256-core.S $(obj)/sha512-core.S
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/crypto/Makefile b/arch/arm64/crypto/Makefile
> index cee9b8d9..fceb638 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/crypto/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/crypto/Makefile
> @@ -76,4 +76,4 @@ $(src)/sha256-core.S_shipped: $(src)/sha512-armv8.pl
> $(src)/sha512-core.S_shipped: $(src)/sha512-armv8.pl
> $(call cmd,perlasm)
>
> -.PRECIOUS: $(obj)/sha256-core.S $(obj)/sha512-core.S
> +.SECONDARY: $(obj)/sha256-core.S $(obj)/sha512-core.S
> diff --git a/arch/metag/boot/dts/Makefile b/arch/metag/boot/dts/Makefile
> index f0a180f..16505aa 100644
> --- a/arch/metag/boot/dts/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/metag/boot/dts/Makefile
> @@ -12,5 +12,3 @@ endif
>
> dtb-$(CONFIG_METAG_BUILTIN_DTB) += $(builtindtb-y).dtb
> obj-$(CONFIG_METAG_BUILTIN_DTB) += $(builtindtb-y).dtb.o
> -
> -.SECONDARY: $(obj)/$(builtindtb-y).dtb.S
> diff --git a/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile b/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile
> index 333bc4c..0fb87cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile
> @@ -12,7 +12,3 @@ DTC_FLAGS_overlay := -@
> DTC_FLAGS_overlay_bad_phandle := -@
> DTC_FLAGS_overlay_bad_symbol := -@
> DTC_FLAGS_overlay_base := -@
> -
> -.PRECIOUS: \
> - $(obj)/%.dtb.S \
> - $(obj)/%.dtb
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
> index cc081af..4397adb 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.build
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
> @@ -430,8 +430,6 @@ quiet_cmd_asn1_compiler = ASN.1 $@
> cmd_asn1_compiler = $(objtree)/scripts/asn1_compiler $< \
> $(subst .h,.c,$@) $(subst .c,.h,$@)
>
> -.PRECIOUS: $(objtree)/$(obj)/%.asn1.c $(objtree)/$(obj)/%.asn1.h
> -
> $(obj)/%.asn1.c $(obj)/%.asn1.h: $(src)/%.asn1 \
> $(objtree)/scripts/asn1_compiler FORCE
> $(call if_changed,asn1_compiler)
> @@ -590,6 +588,10 @@ $(shell mkdir -p $(obj-dirs))
> endif
> endif
>
> +# Some contained in $(targets) are intermediate artifacts.
> +# We never want them to be removed automatically.
> +.SECONDARY: $(targets)
> +
> # Declare the contents of the .PHONY variable as phony. We keep that
> # information in a variable se we can use it in if_changed and friends.
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> index 7a1fa92..c114ce5 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> @@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ endef
> quiet_cmd_flex = LEX $@
> cmd_flex = $(LEX) -o$@ -L $<
>
> -.PRECIOUS: $(obj)/%.lex.c
> $(obj)/%.lex.c: $(src)/%.l FORCE
> $(call if_changed,flex)
>
> @@ -192,14 +191,12 @@ $(obj)/%.lex.c: $(src)/%.l FORCE
> quiet_cmd_bison = YACC $@
> cmd_bison = $(YACC) -o$@ -t -l $<
>
> -.PRECIOUS: $(obj)/%.tab.c
> $(obj)/%.tab.c: $(src)/%.y FORCE
> $(call if_changed,bison)
>
> quiet_cmd_bison_h = YACC $@
> cmd_bison_h = bison -o/dev/null --defines=$@ -t -l $<
>
> -.PRECIOUS: $(obj)/%.tab.h
> $(obj)/%.tab.h: $(src)/%.y FORCE
> $(call if_changed,bison_h)
>
>

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