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,
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rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 13/23] modpost: hash module source per-file, not per-byte
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:55:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-13-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-0-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org>
modpost spends a long time md4 hashing module source at a per-byte
granularity.
Fix this by doing this hashing per-file instead by accumulating a per-file
buffer in parse_file().
All 11,189 .mod.c files and Module.symvers were confirmed to be identical
with this change applied.
This is especially impactful for allmodconfig incremental builds (where
CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is set).
Whole build, 128-thread Threadripper 9980X, best of N runs:
before after delta
-------------------------------
x86 allmodconfig, touch mm/vma.c, gcc 40.6s 38.2s -2.4s (-6%)
x86 allmodconfig, touch mm/vma.c, clang 36.2s 35.0s -1.2s (-3%)
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
---
scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
index 3dd28b4d0099..2cbadd3cd97d 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
@@ -224,19 +224,11 @@ static void md4_final_ascii(struct md4_ctx *mctx, char *out, unsigned int len)
mctx->hash[0], mctx->hash[1], mctx->hash[2], mctx->hash[3]);
}
-static inline void add_char(unsigned char c, struct md4_ctx *md)
-{
- md4_update(md, &c, 1);
-}
-
-static int parse_string(const char *file, unsigned long len,
- struct md4_ctx *md)
+static int parse_string(const char *file, unsigned long len)
{
unsigned long i;
- add_char(file[0], md);
for (i = 1; i < len; i++) {
- add_char(file[i], md);
if (file[i] == '"' && file[i-1] != '\\')
break;
}
@@ -255,15 +247,44 @@ static int parse_comment(const char *file, unsigned long len)
}
/* FIXME: Handle .s files differently (eg. # starts comments) --RR */
+static bool stop_char[256];
+
+static void init_stop_chars(void)
+{
+ static bool done;
+ int chr;
+
+ if (done)
+ return;
+
+ for (chr = 0; chr < 256; chr++)
+ if (chr == '\\' || chr == '"' || chr == '/' || isspace(chr))
+ stop_char[chr] = true;
+
+ done = true;
+}
+
static int parse_file(const char *fname, struct md4_ctx *md)
{
+ unsigned long i, len, n = 0;
+ unsigned char *buf;
char *file;
- unsigned long i, len;
file = read_text_file(fname);
len = strlen(file);
+ if (!len)
+ goto out_file;
+ init_stop_chars();
+ buf = xmalloc(len); /* File output buffer. */
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+ const unsigned char chr = file[i];
+
+ if (!stop_char[chr]) {
+ buf[n++] = file[i];
+ continue;
+ }
+
/* Collapse and ignore \ and CR. */
if (file[i] == '\\' && (i+1 < len) && file[i+1] == '\n') {
i++;
@@ -276,7 +297,14 @@ static int parse_file(const char *fname, struct md4_ctx *md)
/* Handle strings as whole units */
if (file[i] == '"') {
- i += parse_string(file+i, len - i, md);
+ unsigned long slen = parse_string(file+i, len - i);
+
+ /* Closing quote is included if there is one. */
+ if (slen < len - i)
+ slen++;
+ memcpy(buf + n, file + i, slen);
+ n += slen;
+ i += slen - 1;
continue;
}
@@ -286,11 +314,15 @@ static int parse_file(const char *fname, struct md4_ctx *md)
continue;
}
- add_char(file[i], md);
+ buf[n++] = file[i];
}
+ md4_update(md, buf, n);
+ free(buf);
+out_file:
free(file);
return 1;
}
+
/* Check whether the file is a static library or not */
static bool is_static_library(const char *objfile)
{
--
2.55.0
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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 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-09-10 12:52 ` [PATCH 13/23] modpost: hash module source per-file, not per-byte 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 ` [PATCH 22/23] kbuild: build rust crates in parallel with the rest of the build Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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
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2026-09-11 11:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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2026-09-09 16:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 21:58 ` Florian Fainelli
2026-09-11 11:28 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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