linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH REPOST 2/7] kbuild: fixdep: support concatenated dep files

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Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:00:57 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Grant Likely <glikely@...retlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
CC:	arm@...nel.org, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@...dia.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST 2/7] kbuild: fixdep: support concatenated dep files

On 03/21/2013 12:23 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
> 
> The current use-case for fixdep is: a source file is run through a single
> processing step, which creates a single dependency file as a side-effect,
> which fixdep transforms into the file used by the kernel build process.
> 
> In order to transparently run the C pre-processor on device-tree files,
> we wish to run both gcc -E and dtc on a source file in a single rule.
> This generates two dependency files, which must be transformed together
> into the file used by the kernel build process. This change modifies
> fixdep so it can process the concatenation of multiple separate input
> dependency files, and produce a correct unified output.
> 
> The code changes have the slight benefit of transforming the loop in
> parse_dep_file() into more of a lexer/tokenizer, with the loop body being
> more of a parser. Previously, some of this logic was mixed together
> before the loop. I also added some comments, which I hope are useful.
> 
> Benchmarking shows that on a cross-compiled ARM tegra_defconfig build,
> there is less than 0.5 seconds speed decrease with this change, on top
> of a build time of ~2m24s. This is probably within the noise.

Marek, do patches 2, 3, and 4 in this series look good to you from a
kbuild perspective?

I'm hoping that you can review/ack those 3 patches for kbuild, and that
Grant will review/ack the whole series, and then the series can be
merged via arm-soc for 3.10.

Let me know if you need me to repost the series again in case it's
fallen out of your inbox.

Thanks.
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