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Remove race conditions in parallel builds #6729

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vicuna opened this issue Dec 21, 2014 · 9 comments
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Remove race conditions in parallel builds #6729

vicuna opened this issue Dec 21, 2014 · 9 comments

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vicuna commented Dec 21, 2014

Original bug ID: 6729
Reporter: @whitequark
Assigned to: @whitequark
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2016-12-07T10:47:01Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Fixed in version: 4.02.2+dev / +rc1
Category: configure and build/install
Monitored by: @gasche @hcarty

Bug description

There are a few annoying race conditions that break builds with high -j values.

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vicuna commented Dec 21, 2014

Comment author: @whitequark

@gasche: One of the race conditions is present in interaction between make's built-in functionality that removes intermediate files referred to by .SUFFIXES: and explicit rm's. I rewrote the rules and now make -C byterun -j1000 always finishes successfully. Ditto for asmrun.

There are still more races in world, though.

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vicuna commented Dec 21, 2014

Comment author: @gasche

Maybe we could apply the same treatment to the Makefile.nt (which is run under Windows) to avoid divergence? byerun/Makefile.nt does not have pic rules, but asmrun/Makefile.nt has some suffix rules left.

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vicuna commented Dec 21, 2014

Comment author: @whitequark

I've updated the patch.

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vicuna commented Dec 22, 2014

Comment author: @damiendoligez

FTR, it's not only for race condition, but it will also make my life easier when debugging the runtime.

But: could you minimise the patch? This does three things:

  1. change the build instructions to remove the race conditions
  2. change the rule style from ".c.o:" to "%.o : %.c"
  3. reorder some rules in asmrun/Makefile

I think (3) is really not needed, and I'd be more comfortable with the patch if it didn't do (2) at the same time, unless (1) somehow depends on it.

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vicuna commented Dec 22, 2014

Comment author: @whitequark

It does. The automatic removal performed by make is linked to the suffix being in the .SUFFIXES: list.

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vicuna commented Dec 22, 2014

Comment author: @gasche

On the other hand, the gmake documentation describes suffix rules as obsolete ( https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Rules.html ) and advises to replace them with pattern rules. As someone that doesn't know much about make, I find pattern rules much easier to read (I would never figure what ".s.p.o:" means).

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vicuna commented Dec 22, 2014

Comment author: @whitequark

Patch altered to not reorder rules in asmrun/Makefile.

@gasche: I've also removed the only other instance of .SUFFIXES: used to build C files. The build system also has widespread use of .SUFFIXES: to build ML files, but fixing that would be a part of much larger refactoring effort.

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vicuna commented Dec 22, 2014

Comment author: @damiendoligez

OK, then.

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vicuna commented Dec 27, 2014

Comment author: @gasche

Merged in trunk and 4.02.

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