Fix kconfig performance bug Roman, I'm pretty sure this patch is correct, but obviously someone more familiar with the kconfig code should check it over. If it's ok (i.e. it makes no change in external behaviour), please apply.
When doing its recursive dependency check, scripts/kconfig/conf uses the flag SYMBOL_CHECK_DONE to avoid rechecking a symbol it has already checked. However, that flag is only set at the top level, so if a symbol is first encountered as a dependency of another symbol it will be rechecked every time it is encountered until it's encountered at the top level. This patch adjusts the flag setting so that each symbol will only be checked once, regardless of whether it is first encountered at the top level, or while recursing down from another symbol. On complex configurations, this vastly speeds up scripts/kconfig/conf. The config in the powerpc merge tree is particularly bad: this patch reduces the time for 'scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/powerpc/Kconfig' by a factor of 40 on a G5. That's even including the time to print the config, so the speedup in the actual checking is more likely 2 or 3 orders of magnitude. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: working-2.6/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c =================================================================== --- working-2.6.orig/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c 2005-10-20 12:40:45.000000000 +1000 +++ working-2.6/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c 2005-10-20 12:41:43.000000000 +1000 @@ -758,6 +758,8 @@ out: if (sym2) printf(" %s", sym->name); + else + sym->flags |= SYMBOL_CHECK_DONE; sym->flags &= ~SYMBOL_CHECK; return sym2; } Index: working-2.6/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y =================================================================== --- working-2.6.orig/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y 2005-10-20 12:40:45.000000000 +1000 +++ working-2.6/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y 2005-10-20 12:41:43.000000000 +1000 @@ -495,10 +495,9 @@ exit(1); menu_finalize(&rootmenu); for_all_symbols(i, sym) { +/* fprintf(stderr, "Checking %s...\n", sym->name); */ if (!(sym->flags & SYMBOL_CHECKED) && sym_check_deps(sym)) printf("\n"); - else - sym->flags |= SYMBOL_CHECK_DONE; } sym_change_count = 1; Index: working-2.6/scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped =================================================================== --- working-2.6.orig/scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped 2005-10-12 17:10:16.000000000 +1000 +++ working-2.6/scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped 2005-10-20 13:01:50.000000000 +1000 @@ -1935,8 +1935,6 @@ for_all_symbols(i, sym) { if (!(sym->flags & SYMBOL_CHECKED) && sym_check_deps(sym)) printf("\n"); - else - sym->flags |= SYMBOL_CHECK_DONE; } sym_change_count = 1; -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel