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SubjectRe: [tip:locking/core] locking/atomics: Check generated headers are up-to-date

* tip-bot for Mark Rutland <tipbot@zytor.com> wrote:

> Commit-ID: 8d32588077bdc390420cfa6946f407033a20d7a8
> Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/8d32588077bdc390420cfa6946f407033a20d7a8
> Author: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 11:48:29 +0100
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> CommitDate: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 11:01:10 +0100
>
> locking/atomics: Check generated headers are up-to-date
>
> Now that all the generated atomic headers are in place, it would be good
> to ensure that:
>
> a) the headers are up-to-date when scripting changes.
>
> b) developers don't directly modify the generated headers.
>
> To ensure both of these properties, let's add a Kbuild step to check
> that the generated headers are up-to-date.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: linuxdrivers@attotech.com
> Cc: dvyukov@google.com
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Cc: arnd@arndb.de
> Cc: aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
> Cc: glider@google.com
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180904104830.2975-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> ---
> Kbuild | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
> scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

These scripts are *awfully* slow to be run at every kernel build - even a
reasonably fast machine:

model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz

... they are adding 3-4 seconds to the build time:

[Before]:

galatea:~/linux/linux> perf stat --null --repeat 3 make kernel/sched/core.o
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
DESCEND objtool
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
DESCEND objtool
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
DESCEND objtool

Performance counter stats for 'make kernel/sched/core.o' (3 runs):

1.201874 +- 0.000371 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.03% )


[After]:

galatea:~/linux/linux> perf stat --null --repeat 3 make kernel/sched/core.o

CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
DESCEND objtool
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
DESCEND objtool
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
DESCEND objtool

Performance counter stats for 'make kernel/sched/core.o' (3 runs):

4.5987 +- 0.0109 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.24% )

Could we please get this fixed so that proper dependencies are checked
and it's only regenerated when needed? This slowdown makes additive-build
kernel development quite painful, as ~5 seconds is in the 'too long'
category already, while 1.2 seconds is basically instantaneous.

I cannot even imagine the slowdown on a truly slow box where kernel
development *has* to be additive.

Thanks,

Ingo

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