kbuild: speed up checksyscalls.sh
checksyscalls.sh is run at every "make" run while building the kernel,
even if no files have changed. I looked at where we spend time in
a trivial empty rebuild and found checksyscalls.sh to be a source
of noticeable overhead, as it spawns a lot of child processes just
to call 'cat' copying from stdin to stdout, once for each of the
over 400 x86 syscalls.
Using a shell-builtin (echo) instead of the external command gives
us a 13x speedup:
Before After
real 0m1.018s real 0m0.077s
user 0m0.068s user 0m0.048s
sys 0m0.156s sys 0m0.024s
The time it took to rebuild a single file on my machine dropped
from 5.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
diff --git a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
index 116b773..5a387a2 100755
--- a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
+++ b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
@@ -202,15 +202,12 @@
}
syscall_list() {
- grep '^[0-9]' "$1" | sort -n | (
+ grep '^[0-9]' "$1" | sort -n |
while read nr abi name entry ; do
- cat <<EOF
-#if !defined(__NR_${name}) && !defined(__IGNORE_${name})
-#warning syscall ${name} not implemented
-#endif
-EOF
+ echo "#if !defined(__NR_${name}) && !defined(__IGNORE_${name})"
+ echo "#warning syscall ${name} not implemented"
+ echo "#endif"
done
- )
}
(ignore_list && syscall_list $(dirname $0)/../arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl) | \