Masahiro Yamada ed79c34d3c kbuild: deb-pkg: support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=N in debian/rules
'make srcdeb-pkg' generates a source package, which you can build
later by using dpkg-buildpackage.

In older dpkg versions, 'dpkg-buildpackage --jobs=N' sets not only
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS but also MAKEFLAGS. Hence, passing -j or --jobs
to dpkg-buildpackage was enough for kicking the parallel execution.

The behavior was changed by commit 1d0ea9b2ba3f ("dpkg-buildpackage:
Change -j, --jobs semantics to non-force mode") of dpkg project. [1]

Since then, 'dpkg-buildpackage --jobs=N' sets only DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS,
which is not parsed by the current debian/rules. To build the package
in parallel, you need to pass the alternative --jobs-force option or
set the MAKEFLAGS environment variable.

Debian policy [2] suggests the following code snippet for debian/rules.

  ifneq (,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
      NUMJOBS = $(patsubst parallel=%,%,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
      MAKEFLAGS += -j$(NUMJOBS)
  endif

I tweaked the code to filter out parallel=1 and passed --jobs=1 to
dpkg-buildpackage from scripts/Makefile.package. It is needed to force
'make deb-pkg' without the -j option to run in serial. Please note that
dpkg-buildpackage sets parallel=<nproc> in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS by default
(that is, --jobs=auto is the default) and --jobs=1 is needed to restore
the serial execution. When dpkg-buildpackage is invoked from Kbuild,
the number of jobs is inherited from the top level Makefile. Passing
--jobs=1 to dpkg-buildpackage allows debian/rules to skip parsing
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.

[1] 1d0ea9b2ba
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules-options

Reported-by: Bastian Germann <bage@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2023-08-29 22:29:35 +09:00
2023-08-22 18:12:46 +09:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00

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 Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
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