From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sphinx: kernel_abi: fix performance regression with O=<dir>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:40:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ecu5abzc.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e25673d87357457bc54ee863e97ff8f75956580d.1752752211.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:
> The logic there which adds a dependency note to Sphinx cache
> is not taking into account that the build dir may not be
> the source dir. This causes a performance regression:
>
> $ time make O=/tmp/foo SPHINXDIRS=admin-guide htmldocs
>
> [OUTDATED]
> Added: set()
> Changed: {'abi-obsolete', 'abi-removed', 'abi-stable-files', 'abi-obsolete-files', 'abi-stable', 'abi', 'abi-removed-files', 'abi-testing-files', 'abi-testing', 'gpio/index', 'gpio/obsolete'}
> Removed: set()
> All docs count: 385
> Found docs count: 385
>
> real 0m11,324s
> user 0m15,783s
> sys 0m1,164s
>
> To get the root cause of the problem (ABI files reported as changed),
> I used this changeset:
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
> index e8766e689c1b..ab486623bd8b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/conf.py
> +++ b/Documentation/conf.py
> @@ -571,3 +571,16 @@ def setup(app):
> """Patterns need to be updated at init time on older Sphinx versions"""
>
> app.connect('config-inited', update_patterns)
> + app.connect('env-get-outdated', on_outdated)
> +
> +def on_outdated(app, env, added, changed, removed):
> + """Track cache outdated due to added/changed/removed files"""
> + print("\n[OUTDATED]")
> + print(f"Added: {added}")
> + print(f"Changed: {changed}")
> + print(f"Removed: {removed}")
> + print(f"All docs count: {len(env.all_docs)}")
> + print(f"Found docs count: {len(env.found_docs)}")
> +
> + # Just return what we have
> + return added | changed | removed
>
> Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/c174f7c5-ec21-4eae-b1c3-f643cca90d9d@gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> ---
> v2: updated description. No changes at the diff itself
>
> Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py
> index db6f0380de94..4c4375201b9e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py
> +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py
> @@ -146,8 +146,10 @@ class KernelCmd(Directive):
> n += 1
>
> if f != old_f:
> - # Add the file to Sphinx build dependencies
> - env.note_dependency(os.path.abspath(f))
> + # Add the file to Sphinx build dependencies if the file exists
> + fname = os.path.join(srctree, f)
> + if os.path.isfile(fname):
> + env.note_dependency(fname)
>
Applied, thanks.
jon
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