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Commit ecab4115 authored by Miguel Ojeda's avatar Miguel Ojeda
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kbuild: mark `rustc` (and others) invocations as recursive



`rustc` (like Cargo) may take advantage of the jobserver at any time
(e.g. for backend parallelism, or eventually frontend too). In the kernel,
we call `rustc` with `-Ccodegen-units=1` (and `-Zthreads` is 1 so far),
so we do not expect parallelism. However, in the upcoming Rust 1.76.0, a
warning is emitted by `rustc` [1] when it cannot connect to the jobserver
it was passed (in many cases, but not all: compiling and `--print sysroot`
do, but `--version` does not). And given GNU Make always passes
the jobserver in the environment variable (even when a line is deemed
non-recursive), `rustc` will end up complaining about it (in particular
in Make 4.3 where there is only the simple pipe jobserver style).

One solution is to remove the jobserver from `MAKEFLAGS`. However, we
can mark the lines with calls to `rustc` (and Cargo) as recursive, which
looks simpler. This is being documented as a recommendation in `rustc`
[2] and allows us to be ready for the time we may use parallelism inside
`rustc` (potentially now, if a user passes `-Zthreads`). Thus do so.

Similarly, do the same for `rustdoc` and `cargo` calls.

Finally, there is one case that the solution does not cover, which is the
`$(shell ...)` call we have. Thus, for that one, set an empty `MAKEFLAGS`
environment variable.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/120515 [1]
Acked-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121564 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-1-ojeda@kernel.org
[ Reworded to add link to PR documenting the recommendation. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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