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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,
	 linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,  linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,  linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	 "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 01/23] scripts/mksysmap: drop the MODULE_INFO() symbols from kallsyms
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:55:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-1-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-0-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org>

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
keeps .modinfo symbols out of System.map and kallsyms, which assumes unique
IDs have a format like '__UNIQUE_ID_modinfo123'.

However, commit afb026b6d35c ("compiler: Tweak __UNIQUE_ID() naming"), sent
in the same cycle, changes this to '__UNIQUE_ID_modinfo_123'.

As a result this regexp has never matched and every kernel since v6.18 has
carried one kallsyms entries for every MODULE_INFO() declaration in the
kernel whether the modules are compiled or not.

That's 5,810 entries for an x86 defconfig build and 15,200 for arm64.

On x86 defconfig that is 113 KiB of kallsyms tables and 32 KiB of bzImage,
and every lookup walks past them.

Fix the pattern.

Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")

No measurable change in build time, the smaller tables are not on any path
the build waits for.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
---
 scripts/mksysmap | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mksysmap b/scripts/mksysmap
index c4531eacde20..56a8b8bbdb37 100755
--- a/scripts/mksysmap
+++ b/scripts/mksysmap
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 / _SDA2_BASE_$/d
 
 # MODULE_INFO()
-/ __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo[0-9]*$/d
+/ __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo_[0-9]*$/d
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Ignored patterns

-- 
2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-08 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-08 20:55 [PATCH 00/23] kbuild: significantly speed up kernel builds Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-09-09 19:47   ` [PATCH 01/23] scripts/mksysmap: drop the MODULE_INFO() symbols from kallsyms 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 ` [PATCH 13/23] modpost: hash module source per-file, not per-byte Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 12:52   ` 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
2026-09-09 14:17   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 22:09     ` Nick Desaulniers
2026-09-11 11:25       ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 15:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-09-09 16:30   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 21:58 ` Florian Fainelli
2026-09-11 11:28   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-12  6:44     ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10  4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-11 11:13   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)

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