From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:06:16 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: xlat: avoid fork bombing the build system
X-Git-Tag: v4.10~57
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=48ceaee38436357f4cd31e67a63cc961e8441516;p=strace

xlat: avoid fork bombing the build system

When there were fewer xlat headers, this didn't matter as much.
But now with >200, trying to run them all in parallel can easily
fork bomb smaller systems.

* xlat/gen.sh (main): Do not more jobs than # of cpus.
---

diff --git a/xlat/gen.sh b/xlat/gen.sh
index 1484fb59..8754a032 100755
--- a/xlat/gen.sh
+++ b/xlat/gen.sh
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ main()
 	local input="$1"
 	local output="$2"
 	local name
+	local jobs=0
+	local ncpus="$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)"
+	[ "${ncpus}" -ge 1 ] ||
+		ncpus=1
 
 	if [ -d "${input}" ]; then
 		local f names=
@@ -156,6 +160,11 @@ main()
 			name=${name%.in}
 			gen_header "${f}" "${output}/${name}.h" "${name}" &
 			names="${names} ${name}"
+			: $(( jobs += 1 ))
+			if [ ${jobs} -ge ${ncpus} ]; then
+				jobs=0
+				wait
+			fi
 		done
 		gen_git "${output}/.gitignore" ${names}
 		gen_make "${output}/Makemodule.am" ${names}