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Linus Torvalds 5cf0fd591f Kbuild: disable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS option 
The removal of EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL() in commit 367948220f looks like
(and was sold as) a no-op, but it actually had a rather serious and
subtle side effect: the UNUSED_SYMBOLS option not only enabled the
removed (unused) functionality, it also _disabled_ the TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
functionality.

And it turns out that TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is a huge time waste, and takes
up a third of the kernel build time for me.  For no actual upside, since
no distro is likely to ever be able to enable it (because they all
support external kernel modules).

Rather than re-enable EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL, this just disables the
TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS option by marking it broken.  I'm tempted to just
remove the support entirely, but maybe somebody has a use-case and can
fix the behavior of it.

I could have just disabled it for COMPILE_TEST, but it really smells
like the TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS option is badly done and not really useful,
so this takes the more direct approach - let's see if anybody ever
actually notices or complains.

Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Fixes: 367948220f ("module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL*")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-02-23 12:21:58 -08:00
arch Modules updates for v5.12 2021-02-23 10:15:33 -08:00
block for-5.12/block-ipi-2021-02-21 2021-02-22 10:53:05 -08:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-02-21 17:23:56 -08:00
Documentation This is the bulk of pin control changes for the v5.12 kernel. 2021-02-22 18:39:11 -08:00
drivers Modules updates for v5.12 2021-02-23 10:15:33 -08:00
fs Fixes around VM_FPNMAP and follow_pfn 2021-02-22 17:45:02 -08:00
include Modules updates for v5.12 2021-02-23 10:15:33 -08:00
init Kbuild: disable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS option 2021-02-23 12:21:58 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-12-15 12:53:37 -08:00
kernel Modules updates for v5.12 2021-02-23 10:15:33 -08:00
lib Modules updates for v5.12 2021-02-23 10:15:33 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm Fixes around VM_FPNMAP and follow_pfn 2021-02-22 17:45:02 -08:00
net Optimization: 2021-02-22 13:29:55 -08:00
samples It has been a relatively quiet cycle in docsland. 2021-02-22 10:57:46 -08:00
scripts Modules updates for v5.12 2021-02-23 10:15:33 -08:00
security Merge branch 'userns-for-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-02-22 17:13:33 -08:00
sound ARM updates for 5.12-rc1: 2021-02-22 14:27:07 -08:00
tools Modules updates for v5.12 2021-02-23 10:15:33 -08:00
usr arch: ia64: Remove rest of perfmon support 2021-01-22 12:12:20 +05:30
virt KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.11, take #2 2021-02-12 14:07:39 +00:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-01-29 15:00:23 +01:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore clang-lto series for v5.12-rc1 2021-02-23 09:28:51 -08:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-02-21 17:23:56 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS 2021-01-14 10:53:49 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS IOMMU Updates for Linux v5.12 2021-02-22 10:31:29 -08:00
Makefile clang-lto series for v5.12-rc1 2021-02-23 09:28:51 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.