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charset="UTF-8" In Makefile.config, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LIBLLVM, and EXTLIBS were assigned using recursive expansion or appended with raw $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) ...) calls. Because these variables were expanded during dependency evaluation across every single object file compilation rule, Kbuild continuously re-executed llvm-config forks nearly 200 times during incremental builds. Convert llvm-config shell queries to simply expanded variables (:=) to ensure Make evaluates LLVM compiler flags and library paths exactly once when Makefile.config is parsed, eliminating ~185 redundant sub-processes during build startup. Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers --- tools/perf/Makefile.config | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config index fbe7fa83b0bb..7a61da082c0b 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config @@ -951,11 +951,14 @@ ifndef NO_LIBLLVM $(call feature_check,llvm-perf) ifeq ($(feature-llvm-perf), 1) CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBLLVM_SUPPORT - CFLAGS += $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --cflags) - CXXFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBLLVM_SUPPORT - CXXFLAGS += $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --cxxflags) - LIBLLVM = $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --libs all) $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --system-libs) - EXTLIBS += -L$(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --libdir) $(LIBLLVM) + LLVM_CFLAGS := $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --cflags 2>/dev/null) + LLVM_CXXFLAGS := $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --cxxflags 2>/dev/null) + LLVM_LIBLLVM := $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --libs all 2>/dev/null) $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --system-libs 2>/dev/null) + LLVM_LIBDIR := $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --libdir 2>/dev/null) + CFLAGS += $(LLVM_CFLAGS) + CXXFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBLLVM_SUPPORT $(LLVM_CXXFLAGS) + LIBLLVM := $(LLVM_LIBLLVM) + EXTLIBS += -L$(LLVM_LIBDIR) $(LIBLLVM) EXTLIBS += -lstdc++ $(call detected,CONFIG_LIBLLVM) else -- 2.54.0.563.g4f69b47b94-goog