linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: simplify GCC plugin-dev capability test

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Date:   Fri,  4 Dec 2020 15:46:29 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: simplify GCC plugin-dev capability test

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 21:57:00 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Linus pointed out a third of the time in the Kconfig parse stage comes
> from the single invocation of cc1plus in scripts/gcc-plugin.sh [1],
> and directly testing plugin-version.h for existence cuts down the
> overhead a lot. [2]
> 
> This commit takes one step further to kill the build test entirely.
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/gcc-plugins, thanks!

[1/1] gcc-plugins: simplify GCC plugin-dev capability test
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/1e860048c53e

-- 
Kees Cook