[PATCH v2 3/6] Makefile: Do not force elf last for the others and tests passes

[Sam James]

Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:

> The requirement that the elf subdirectory comes last in the
> subdirectory ordering stems from its lib pass: the rtld link consumes
> $(common-objpfx)libc_pic.a, which aggregates every other
> subdirectory's objects.
>
> The others, tests, and xtests classes have no such dependency: everything
> they consume from other subdirectories is provided by the pass barriers
> (others after lib, tests after others).  Keep elf last only for the
> object-building classes and let its others and tests sub-makes run
> concurrently with the other subdirectories.
>
> With elf no longer forced last for those classes, the Depend edges
> pointing to elf (e.g. support/Depend) no longer create a cycle there,
> so honor them instead of dropping them.
>
> This improves the make check withr run-built-tests=no, specially on

with

> machine with many cores.  Results on a x86_64 machine [1] it improves
> from 190s to 181s, while on a aarch64 machine [2] it improves from
> 298.726s to 243.098s.
>
> Build results remain bit-identical and the tests.sum failure sets are
> unchanged.
>
> [1] Ryzen 5900x, 12c/24t, gcc 16.1.1, binutils 2.26, and GNU make 4.3
> [2] N1, 80c, gcc 15.1.1, binutils 2.25, GNU make 4.3
> ---
>  Makefile | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 45dc36942a8..a6e5317de7b 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -508,21 +508,28 @@ endef
>  #  * The edges requested by the Depend files (emitted by gen-sorted.awk
>  #    as subdir-deps-*) are preserved.
>  #
> -#  * elf stays last, as in the sorted list.  Its rtld build recurses into
> -#    the other subdirectories' object directories via elf/rtld-Rules.
> +#  * elf stays last for the object-building classes, as in the sorted
> +#    list: its rtld link consumes $(common-objpfx)libc_pic.a, which
> +#    aggregates every other subdirectory's objects, and its rtld-Rules
> +#    recursion compiles into the other subdirectories' object
> +#    directories.  The others/tests/xtests classes have no such
> +#    dependency (the pass barriers below provide everything they need),
> +#    so elf is unordered there.
>  #
>  #  * Only target classes without cross-directory file conflicts use this
>  #    sparse ordering; everything else (install, clean, abi, stubs) keeps
>  #    the previous total order via a serial chain.
>  
> -+parallel_subdir_targets := \
> -  subdir_lib \
> -  objects \
> ++elf_last_subdir_targets := \
> +  subdir_lib objects \
>    objs \
> +  subdir_objs \
> +  # +elf_last_subdir_targets
> ++parallel_subdir_targets := \
> +  $(+elf_last_subdir_targets) \
>    others \
>    tests \
>    xtests \
> -  subdir_objs \
>    # +parallel_subdir_targets
>  +serial_subdir_targets := $(filter-out $(+parallel_subdir_targets),\
>  				       $(+subdir_targets))
> @@ -552,14 +559,19 @@ $(foreach t,$(+ordered_parallel_subdir_targets),$(eval \
>  $(foreach d,$(+subdir-pregen),$(foreach t,$(+ordered_parallel_subdir_targets),$(eval \
>    $(d)/$(t): $(addsuffix /$(t),$(+subdir-pregen-prev))))\
>    $(eval +subdir-pregen-prev := $(d)))
> -# Edges pointing to elf are dropped; the sorted list always forces elf
> -# last, overriding any Depend request, and the elf-last edges below would
> -# otherwise create a cycle.
> -$(foreach t,$(+ordered_parallel_subdir_targets),$(foreach d,$(+subdir-rest),$(eval \
> +# For the classes where elf is forced last, edges pointing to elf are
> +# dropped: the sorted list always overrides such Depend requests today
> +# (e.g. support/Depend), and the elf-last edges below would otherwise
> +# create a cycle.  The remaining classes honor them.
> +$(foreach t,$(+elf_last_subdir_targets),$(foreach d,$(+subdir-rest),$(eval \
>    $(d)/$(t): $(addsuffix /$(t),\
>  	      $(filter-out elf,$(filter $(subdirs),$(subdir-deps-$(d))))))))
> +$(foreach t,$(filter-out $(+elf_last_subdir_targets),\
> +		         $(+ordered_parallel_subdir_targets)),\
> +  $(foreach d,$(+subdir-rest),$(eval \
> +  $(d)/$(t): $(addsuffix /$(t),$(filter $(subdirs),$(subdir-deps-$(d)))))))
>  ifneq (,$(filter elf,$(subdirs)))
> -$(foreach t,$(+ordered_parallel_subdir_targets),$(eval \
> +$(foreach t,$(+elf_last_subdir_targets),$(eval \
>    elf/$(t): $(addsuffix /$(t),$(filter-out elf,$(subdirs)))))
>  endif

Not a huge fan of how complex this is but it already was pretty
complex and the comments help.

Reviewed-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
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