Messages in this thread |  | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:01:58 -0800 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Modules updates for v5.12 |
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:55 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > I don't see quite what is wrong, but bisection is clear, and points > the finger at > > 367948220fce "module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL*" > > which looks entirely trivial, but clearly isn't. > > It's repeatable. That commit slows down my build hugely.
Hmm. I'm starting to suspect that the problem is that the removal of CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS now means that we always trigger CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS instead.
And then that CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is some hugely expensive operation.
Linus
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