Linux Kernel https://git.stealer.net/cgit.cgi/user/sven/linux.git/atom?h=v6.7.9 2023-10-28T12:10:08Z 2023-10-28T12:10:08Z Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2023-10-18T15:19:48Z urn:sha1:72d091846de935e0942a8a0f1fe24ff739d85d76 scripts/pahole-flags.sh is executed so many times. You can confirm it, as follows: $ cat <<EOF >> scripts/pahole-flags.sh > echo "scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed" >&2 > EOF $ make -s scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed [ lots of repeated lines... ] This scripts is executed more than 20 times during the kernel build because PAHOLE_FLAGS is a recursively expanded variable and exported to sub-processes. With GNU Make >= 4.4, it is executed more than 60 times because exported variables are also passed to other $(shell ) invocations. Without careful coding, it is known to cause an exponential fork explosion. [1] The use of $(shell ) in an exported recursive variable is likely wrong because $(shell ) is always evaluated due to the 'export' keyword, and the evaluation can occur multiple times by the nature of recursive variables. Convert the shell script to a Makefile, which is included only when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y. [1]: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?64746 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Tested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de> Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>