On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:20:22AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > > You also need to take some care about the gcc arguments that you pass.
> > > E.g. passing -DMODULE when building the precompiled header means that
> > > you can't use that .pch when you build a file where you don't pass
> > > -DMODULE.
> >
> > So does it make sense to build two precompiled headers (one with
> > CFLAGS_KERNEL, one with CFLAGS_MODULE), and then pass -include
> > kernel.h.gch and -include module.h.gch for kernel/built-in modules and
> > loadable modules, respectively? I think I'll try it out and see how it
> > goes.
>
> Yes, that sounds reasonable. But you should check also the other gcc
> options, e.g. KBUILD_MODNAME is defined in a different way for every
> module. Consequently, you must not include any header that uses
> this symbol when building your .gch files.
It's stuff like this that worries me..
In the kernel we rely on a lot of things - more than in usual projects.
And one thing we have established in the 2.6 kernel is a trust in the
build system. If you change something kbuild will recompile
everything needed to build a consistent kernel.
Whatever we do for precompiled headers shall keep the promise
and the trust in kbuild.
But any speedup in a kernel build is welcome so please continue
your effort but keep an eye out for all the details.
Sam
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