linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Speed up "make headers

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Date:	Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:18:33 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Speed up "make headers_*"

Hi WANG.

> >No error handling and I like to avid the extra tmp file.
> 
> 
> I think you can open a pipe in Perl, e.g. open FILE, "|scripts/unifdef";.
> 
> 
> >
> >	Sam
> >
> >#!/usr/bin/perl
> >#
> ># headers_install prepare the listed header files for use in
> ># user space and copy the files to their destination.
> >#
> ># Usage: headers_install.pl odir installdir [files...]
> ># odir:    dir to open files
> ># install: dir to install the files
> ># files:   list of files to check
> >#
> ># Step in preparation for users space:
> ># 1) Drop all use of compiler.h definitions
> ># 2) Drop include of compiler.h
> ># 3) Drop all sections defined out by __KERNEL__
> >
> >use strict;
> >use warnings;
> >
> >my ($odir, $installdir, @files) = @ARGV;
> >
> >my $ret = 0;
> 
> 
> This is only used by last exit, thus can be removed.
> 
> >
> >foreach my $file (@files) {
> >	open(my $infile, '<', "$odir/$file") or die "$odir/$file: $!\n";
> >	open(my $outfile, '>', "$installdir/$file.tmp") or
> >		die "$installdir/$file.tmp: $!\n";
> >	while (my $line = <$infile>) {
> >		$line =~ s/([\s(])__user\s/$1/g;
> >		$line =~ s/([\s(])__force\s/$1/g;
> >		$line =~ s/([\s(])__iomem\s/$1/g;
> >		$line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__\s/ /g;
> >		$line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__$//g;
> >		$line =~ s/^#include <linux\/compiler.h>//;
> >		printf $outfile "%s", $line;
> >	}
> >	close($outfile);
> >	close($outfile);
> 
> 
> 'close' doesn't need parenthesises neither.
> 
> >	system "scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__ $installdir/$file.tmp > $installdir/$file"
> 
> 
> Will scripts/unifdef clean the tmp file? If not, you should do it, right?

Will fix - it was left as I hope to fix the unifdef thing
and then it may error out too.

	Sam
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