History log of /linux-master/Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh
Revision Date Author Comments
# adc10f5b 21-Feb-2020 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

docs: Fix empty parallelism argument

When there was no parallelism (no top-level -j arg and a pre-1.7
sphinx-build), the argument passed would be empty ("") instead of just
being missing, which would (understandably) badly confuse sphinx-build.
Fix this by removing the quotes.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Fixes: 51e46c7a4007 ("docs, parallelism: Rearrange how jobserver reservations are made")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5 only
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 51e46c7a 21-Nov-2019 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

docs, parallelism: Rearrange how jobserver reservations are made

Rasmus correctly observed that the existing jobserver reservation only
worked if no other build targets were specified. The correct approach
is to hold the jobserver slots until sphinx has finished. To fix this,
the following changes are made:

- refactor (and rename) scripts/jobserver-exec to set an environment
variable for the maximally reserved jobserver slots and exec a
child, to release the slots on exit.

- create Documentation/scripts/parallel-wrapper.sh which examines both
$PARALLELISM and the detected "-jauto" logic from Documentation/Makefile
to decide sphinx's final -j argument.

- chain these together in Documentation/Makefile

Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/eb25959a-9ec4-3530-2031-d9d716b40b20@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191121205929.40371-4-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>