| From | Nick Desaulniers <> | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:13:46 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/22] kbuild: lto: remove duplicate dependencies from .mod files |
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:33 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> wrote: > > With LTO, llvm-nm prints out symbols for each archive member > separately, which results in a lot of duplicate dependencies in the > .mod file when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_SYMS is enabled. When a module > consists of several compilation units, the output can exceed the > default xargs command size limit and split the dependency list to > multiple lines, which results in used symbols getting trimmed. > > This change removes duplicate dependencies, which will reduce the > probability of this happening and makes .mod files smaller and > easier to read. > > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> --- > scripts/Makefile.build | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build > index 82977350f5a6..82b465ce3ca0 100644 > --- a/scripts/Makefile.build > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build > @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ endef > > # List module undefined symbols (or empty line if not enabled) > ifdef CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS > -cmd_undef_syms = $(NM) $< | sed -n 's/^ *U //p' | xargs echo > +cmd_undef_syms = $(NM) $< | sed -n 's/^ *U //p' | sort -u | xargs echo > else > cmd_undef_syms = echo > endif > -- > 2.27.0.212.ge8ba1cc988-goog >
-- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
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