![]() When moving a symbol in the symtab its index changes and any reloc referring that symtol-table-index will need to be rewritten too. In order to facilitate this, objtool simply marks the whole reloc section 'changed' which will cause the whole section to be re-generated. However, finding the relocs that use any given symbol is implemented rather crudely -- a fully iteration of all sections and their relocs. Given that some builds have over 20k sections (kallsyms etc..) iterating all that for *each* symbol moved takes a bit of time. Instead have each symbol keep a list of relocs that reference it. This *vastly* improves build times for certain configs. Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y2LlRA7x+8UsE1xf@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net |
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arch | ||
block | ||
certs | ||
crypto | ||
drivers | ||
fs | ||
include | ||
init | ||
io_uring | ||
ipc | ||
kernel | ||
lib | ||
mm | ||
net | ||
rust | ||
samples | ||
scripts | ||
security | ||
sound | ||
tools | ||
usr | ||
virt | ||
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Kbuild | ||
Kconfig | ||
MAINTAINERS | ||
Makefile | ||
README |
README
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.