linux/scripts/Makefile
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) 531980b4b1
kallsyms: reimplement mksysmap in C
mksysmap is a sed script consisting of 30 patterns which link-vmlinux.sh
uses to generate *.syms files, and which kallsyms is then called against to
generate *.kallsyms files, with the final vmlinux build ultimately
generating System.map.

For an x86-64 allmodconfig build, this involves three nm runs over a 250
MiB file and half a million lines written and read each time - 0.5s per
pass for llvm-nm, and 0.2s for GNU nm, with parsing on top of that.

This is unnecessary, instead have kallsyms simply read the ELF file
directly making use of the existing elf-parse library in scripts/.

This changes kallsyms such that its input is no longer the output from nm,
but rather an ELF file.

However, if the input file is empty, it outputs an empty table, which
retains the same behaviour on first pass that the build system expects.

System.map is byte-identical to nm | mksysmap for GNU nm and llvm-nm on
two x86 configurations each, and for llvm-nm on arm64, arm, s390 and
loongarch defconfigs, so are the kallsyms tables of every pass.

Relinking vmlinux, link steps included:

                        before    after
  allmodconfig clang     9.1s     7.9s
  allmodconfig gcc       7.8s     7.6s
  defconfig clang        3.7s     3.0s
  defconfig gcc          3.5s     3.4s

Whole build, 128-thread Threadripper 9980X, best of N runs:

                                         before   after     delta
                                         -------------------------------
  x86 defconfig, touch mm/vma.c, gcc        9.1s     8.6s    -0.43s (-5%)
  x86 defconfig, touch mm/vma.c, clang      9.0s     8.0s     -1.1s (-12%)
  x86 defconfig, clean, gcc                29.5s    28.9s    -0.64s (-2%)
  x86 defconfig, clean, clang              31.2s    29.8s     -1.4s (-5%)
  x86 allmodconfig, touch mm/vma.c, gcc    35.8s    35.0s    -0.77s (-2%)
  x86 allmodconfig, touch mm/vma.c, clang  35.8s    33.7s     -2.0s (-6%)

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260923-build-speedup-v4-8-73128809a4a4@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2026-09-26 00:16:35 +01:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
###
# scripts contains sources for various helper programs used throughout
# the kernel for the build process.
hostprogs-always-y += kallsyms
hostprogs-always-$(BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT) += recordmcount
hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT) += sorttable
hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_ASN1) += asn1_compiler
hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORMAT) += sign-file
hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_SYSTEM_EXTRA_CERTIFICATE) += insert-sys-cert
hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_RUST_KERNEL_DOCTESTS) += rustdoc_test_builder
hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_RUST_KERNEL_DOCTESTS) += rustdoc_test_gen
hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS) += tracepoint-update
kallsyms-objs := kallsyms.o kallsyms-sysmap.o elf-parse.o
sorttable-objs := sorttable.o elf-parse.o
tracepoint-update-objs := tracepoint-update.o elf-parse.o
ifneq ($(or $(CONFIG_X86_64),$(CONFIG_X86_32)),)
always-$(CONFIG_RUST) += target.json
filechk_rust_target = $< < include/config/auto.conf
$(obj)/target.json: scripts/generate_rust_target include/config/auto.conf FORCE
$(call filechk,rust_target)
endif
hostprogs += generate_rust_target
generate_rust_target-rust := y
rustdoc_test_builder-rust := y
rustdoc_test_gen-rust := y
HOSTCFLAGS_tracepoint-update.o = -I$(srctree)/tools/include
HOSTCFLAGS_kallsyms.o = -I$(srctree)/tools/include
HOSTCFLAGS_kallsyms-sysmap.o = -I$(srctree)/tools/include
HOSTCFLAGS_elf-parse.o = -I$(srctree)/tools/include
HOSTCFLAGS_sorttable.o = -I$(srctree)/tools/include
HOSTLDLIBS_sorttable = -lpthread
HOSTCFLAGS_asn1_compiler.o = -I$(srctree)/include
HOSTCFLAGS_sign-file.o = $(shell $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) --cflags libcrypto 2> /dev/null)
HOSTCFLAGS_sign-file.o += -I$(srctree)/tools/include/uapi/
HOSTLDLIBS_sign-file = $(shell $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) --libs libcrypto 2> /dev/null || echo -lcrypto)
ifdef CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
SRCARCH := x86
endif
ifeq ($(ARCH),loongarch)
SRCARCH := loongarch
endif
HOSTCFLAGS_sorttable.o += -I$(srctree)/tools/arch/$(SRCARCH)/include
HOSTCFLAGS_sorttable.o += -DUNWINDER_ORC_ENABLED
endif
ifdef CONFIG_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
HOSTCFLAGS_sorttable.o += -DMCOUNT_SORT_ENABLED
endif
# The following programs are only built on demand
hostprogs += unifdef gen_packed_field_checks
# The module linker script is preprocessed on demand
targets += module.lds
subdir-$(CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS) += gcc-plugins
subdir-$(CONFIG_GENKSYMS) += genksyms
subdir-$(CONFIG_GENDWARFKSYMS) += gendwarfksyms
subdir-$(CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX) += selinux
subdir-$(CONFIG_SECURITY_IPE) += ipe
# Let clean descend into subdirs
subdir- += basic dtc gdb kconfig mod