On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:33:21PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote: > Andrew and Ingo report that the check-atomics.sh script is simply too > slow to run for every kernel build, and it's impractical to make it > faster without rewriting it in something other than shell. > > Rather than committing the generated headers, let's regenerate these > as-required for a pristine tree.
> The diffstat looks nice, at least... > include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h | 1787 ---------------------- > include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h | 1012 ------------- > include/linux/atomic-fallback.h | 2294 > ----------------------------- As a heads-up, I generated the diff with git format-patch -D, to omit the preimage for those ~5000 lines being deleted. Unfortunately, git-am will refuse to apply that, with something like: | error: removal patch leaves file contents | error: include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h: patch does not apply I've pushed the patch to my atomics/regenerate branch [1] for now. I can resend with the full context (or leaving the stale files for a subsequent deletion), if that's preferable? Thanks, Mark. [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git atomics/regenerate
