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[82.69.66.36]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-486f301121asm7428212f8f.0.2026.09.12.03.03.19 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:03:18 +0100 From: David Laight To: Nathan Chancellor Cc: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" , Linus Torvalds , Nicolas Schier , Nick Desaulniers , Bill Wendling , Justin Stitt , Masahiro Yamada , Alexey Gladkov , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , Arnd Bergmann , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Ard Biesheuvel , Ilias Apalodimas , Josh Poimboeuf , Peter Zijlstra , Miguel Ojeda , Boqun Feng , Gary Guo , =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJu?= Roy Baron , Benno Lossin , Andreas Hindborg , Alice Ryhl , Trevor Gross , Danilo Krummrich , Daniel Almeida , Tamir Duberstein , Alexandre Courbot , Onur =?UTF-8?B?w5Z6a2Fu?= , Jonathan Corbet , Randy Dunlap , 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/23] kbuild: avoid re-running compiler and linker probes Message-ID: <20260912110318.23bb6619@pumpkin> In-Reply-To: <178901395292.3971858.13236774094648272066.b4-review@b4> References: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-0-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org> <20260908-build-speedup-v1-12-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org> <178901395292.3971858.13236774094648272066.b4-review@b4> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:19:12 -0700 Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig > > index 8583d9f06c52..3c92c87254a3 100644 > > --- a/init/Kconfig > > +++ b/init/Kconfig > > @@ -144,6 +144,44 @@ config CC_HAS_ASSUME > > config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR > > def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile_instrument_function)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror) > > > > +config CC_HAS_ZERO_INIT_PADDING_BITS > > + def_bool $(cc-option,-fzero-init-padding-bits=all) > > + > > +config CC_HAS_NO_STACK_CLASH_PROTECTION > > + def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-clash-protection) > > + > > +config CC_HAS_NO_ADDRSIG > > + def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-addrsig) > > I am generally in favor of this proposal since I think these checks > should be cached by Kconfig where possible to clear up running them > twice. That said, I wonder if we should pick a better dumping ground for > these checks other than init/Kconfig. Maybe init/Kconfig.tools or > scripts/Kconfig.tools or something? > > I also worry about backsliding and growing cc-option checks. Should we > update the documentation to state that it is preferrable for these > checks to live in Kconfig so that they can be properly cached? > Thought... Can some/all of the checks be done by running 'cc --help=xxx' once and parsing the result? Although I'm not really sure that shaving off 0.2 seconds really matters. (I know the little bits add up, but there are much bigger delays.) One thing that does annoy me is the delay before the first compile when you do a -j1 build. I've not looked at what is being run. This is all made worse because gmake doesn't stop on errors very well. I fixed that in NetBSD's make about 25 years ago. (IIRC it mostly required always getting a new token from the pipe.) David