Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] kbuild: generate autoksyms.h early

[Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>]

On Friday 28 Feb 2020 at 19:42:41 (+0900), Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 6:41 PM Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > When doing a cold build, autoksyms.h starts empty, and is updated late
> > in the build process to have visibility over the symbols used by in-tree
> > drivers. But since the symbol whitelist is known upfront, it can be used
> > to pre-populate autoksyms.h and maximize the amount of code that can be
> > compiled to its final state in a single pass, hence reducing build time.
> >
> > Do this by using gen_autoksyms.sh to initialize autoksyms.h instead of
> > creating an empty file.
> >
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
> > Tested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
> > ---
> >  Makefile                 | 7 +++++--
> >  scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh | 3 ++-
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > index 84b71845c43f..17b7e7f441bd 100644
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -1062,9 +1062,12 @@ endif
> >
> >  autoksyms_h := $(if $(CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS), include/generated/autoksyms.h)
> >
> > +quiet_cmd_autoksyms_h = GEN     $@
> > +      cmd_autoksyms_h = mkdir -p $(dir $@); $(CONFIG_SHELL) \
> > +                       $(srctree)/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh $@
> 
> 
> When you send v6,
> could you wrap the line as follows (CONFIG_SHELL in the next line)  ?
> 
>          cmd_autoksyms_h = mkdir -p $(dir $@); \
>                           $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh $@
> 
> 
> This still fits in 80-cols.

Will do.

Thanks,
Quentin