From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
llvm@lists.linux.dev, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 22/23] kbuild: build rust crates in parallel with the rest of the build
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:55:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-22-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-0-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org>
When CONFIG_RUST is specified make prepare builds all of the rust
components before descending into the tree.
This means nothing can be done until all of these are compiled, resulting
in a stall at the start of every clean CONFIG_RUST build.
This also implicitly slows down every rust-capable LLVM allmodconfig build
as this enables the CONFIG_RUST option.
Fix this by allowing rust crates to be built alongside the C code.
Remove the rust build from the make prepare step, then establish a
dependency between rust code located elsewhere in the tree upon rust
components contained in rust/.
Do this by establishing a top-level list of directories containing rust
code, KBUILD_RUST_DIRS, upon which the dependency is expressed.
Finally, ensure that no rust code is located elsewhere and fail the build
if any is found to ensure that nothing is missed in future.
Care is taken to ensure the rust/ dependency is also established for any
module being built to account for external rust modules which rely upon it.
Every Rust and C object was confirmed to be byte-for-byte identical after
this change.
Whole build, 128-thread Threadripper 9980X, best of N runs:
before after delta
-------------------------------
x86 defconfig+RUST, clean 36.5s 32.6s -3.9s (-11%)
x86 allmodconfig, clean 297.0s 278.3s -18.7s (-6%)
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
---
Kbuild | 5 +++++
Makefile | 11 ++++++++++-
scripts/Makefile.build | 5 ++++-
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Kbuild b/Kbuild
index a6a0192dea08..9670556059dd 100644
--- a/Kbuild
+++ b/Kbuild
@@ -115,3 +115,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NET) += net/
obj-y += virt/
obj-y += $(ARCH_DRIVERS)
obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_HEADER_TEST) += include/
+
+# Rust code elsewhere in the tree depends upon rust/.
+ifdef CONFIG_RUST
+$(KBUILD_RUST_DIRS): | rust
+endif
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7d23d7b64be3..3805f72428cb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1429,11 +1429,14 @@ prepare0: archprepare
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=. prepare
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/mod
+ifdef CONFIG_RUST
+export KBUILD_RUST_DIRS := drivers lib mm samples
+endif
+
# All the preparing..
prepare: prepare0
ifdef CONFIG_RUST
+$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/rust_is_available.sh
- $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=rust
endif
PHONY += remove-stale-files
@@ -1760,6 +1763,12 @@ modules: modules_prepare
# Target to prepare building external modules
modules_prepare: prepare
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts scripts/module.lds
+ifdef CONFIG_RUST
+# Ensure rust/ is build before any external rust module which will rely upon it.
+ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),modules_prepare)
+ $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=rust
+endif
+endif
endif # CONFIG_MODULES
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index b9093b39cc2f..77351d6006fa 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -360,8 +360,11 @@ quiet_cmd_rustc_o_rs = $(RUSTC_OR_CLIPPY_QUIET) $(quiet_modtag) $@
$(cmd_ld_single)) \
$(cmd_objtool)
+rust-dir-ok = $(or $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),$(filter rust $(KBUILD_RUST_DIRS),$(firstword $(subst /, ,$@))))
+
+# Ensure that any rust code located elsewhere from rust/ is listed in KBUILD_RUST_DIRS.
define rule_rustc_o_rs
- $(call cmd_and_fixdep,rustc_o_rs)
+ $(if $(rust-dir-ok),,$(error $@: Rust code in a directory not listed in KBUILD_RUST_DIRS, see the top Makefile))$(call cmd_and_fixdep,rustc_o_rs)
$(call cmd,gen_objtooldep)
endef
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-08 20:59 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-08 20:55 [PATCH 00/23] kbuild: significantly speed up kernel builds Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 01/23] scripts/mksysmap: drop the MODULE_INFO() symbols from kallsyms Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 19:47 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-10 11:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10 11:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 19:00 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 02/23] scripts/mksysmap: fix escape of '$' in the __pi_ pattern Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 19:47 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-10 11:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10 11:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 19:00 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 03/23] kallsyms: index symbols by token to speed up table compression Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 04/23] kallsyms: output binary data to speed output and kallsyms assembly Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 14:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-09-10 9:29 ` David Laight
2026-09-11 11:07 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-12 6:38 ` [4/23] " Markus Elfring
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 05/23] kbuild: do not sort nm output where the order is irrelevant Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 06/23] kbuild: only emit vmlinux relocations when required Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 07/23] elf-parse: add section flags, symbol binding and a read-only mapping Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 08/23] kallsyms: reimplement mksysmap in C Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-11 18:52 ` Markus Elfring
2026-09-11 19:15 ` Markus Elfring
2026-09-11 19:42 ` Markus Elfring
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 09/23] kbuild: do not allocate .modinfo in vmlinux Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10 10:59 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 10/23] kbuild: cache list, composite object state per object Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 11/23] kbuild: implement and use depcheck to check dependency timestamps Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 15:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 12/23] kbuild: avoid re-running compiler and linker probes Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10 15:42 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-11 10:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-11 18:10 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-11 18:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-11 17:33 ` David Laight
2026-09-11 18:17 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-11 18:24 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-11 19:34 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-11 21:01 ` David Laight
2026-09-12 7:11 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-11 10:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-12 6:51 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-12 10:03 ` David Laight
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 13/23] modpost: hash module source per-file, not per-byte Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 12:52 ` Petr Pavlu
2026-09-11 10:41 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-11 11:57 ` Petr Pavlu
2026-09-11 12:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 14/23] modpost: cache section relocation mismatch state Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 15/23] modpost: emit module descriptors as assembly Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 14:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 16/23] kbuild: batch module finalisation Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 15:48 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-11 10:23 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 17/23] modpost: perform srcversion hashing in parallel Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 10:32 ` David Laight
2026-09-11 10:49 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-12 11:50 ` Yann Droneaud
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 18/23] objtool: cache relocations and function dead end state, do less work Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 19/23] objtool: decode instructions and resolve branch targets in parallel Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 20/23] kbuild: rust: parallelise rustc front end Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 21:13 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-09-09 14:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 10:22 ` Björn Baron
2026-09-09 12:59 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-09-09 14:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 12:25 ` Nicolas Schier (FRITZ!)
2026-09-11 19:00 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 21/23] rust: make exports.o depend on the headers generated for it Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 23/23] kbuild: use pigz for gzip compression if available Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-11 11:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-12 6:38 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-08 21:06 ` [PATCH 00/23] kbuild: significantly speed up kernel builds Nick Desaulniers
2026-09-09 14:17 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 22:09 ` Nick Desaulniers
2026-09-11 11:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 15:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-09-09 16:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 21:58 ` Florian Fainelli
2026-09-11 11:28 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-12 6:44 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-11 11:13 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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