On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 05:06:14PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > There are places where this is unnecessary - an invocation from > scripts/sorttable every vmlinux link, scripts/check-function-names.sh run > after every vmlinux.o link, and the x86 VOFFSET and ZOFFSET listings > between vmlinux and bzImage. > [...] > before after delta > --------------------------------- > x86 defconfig, touch mm/vma.c, gcc 9.7s 9.5s -0.18s (-2%) > x86 defconfig, touch mm/vma.c, clang 9.3s 9.0s -0.27s (-3%) > x86 defconfig, clean, gcc 30.3s 30.1s -0.16s (-1%) > x86 defconfig, clean, clang 31.7s 31.2s -0.55s (-2%) > x86 allmodconfig, touch mm/vma.c, clang 36.4s 35.8s -0.67s (-2%) > > Assisted-by: LLM > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <[email protected]>
Not a huge boost, but it's a trivial change with a deterministic improvement. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> -- Kees Cook
