linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 24/26] locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc comments

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Message-ID: <20230524141717.GM4253@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 24 May 2023 16:17:17 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akiyks@...il.com,
        boqun.feng@...il.com, corbet@....net, keescook@...omium.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, paulmck@...nel.org,
        sstabellini@...nel.org, will@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/26] locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc
 comments

On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 01:24:27PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
>  include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h  | 1848 +++++++++++-
>  include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h   | 2771 +++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h           |  925 +++++-

>  29 files changed, 5940 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

So my biggest concern with all this is 5k+ lines of comments that GCC
has to read and discard over and over and over.

I'll see if I can measure a difference in compile time before and after
this here patch.