Re: [GIT PULL] Modules updates for v5.12

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Feb 23 2021 - 15:05:41 EST


On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:01 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Does your build now enable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS but previously didn't by
> chance?

Crossed emails.

This is plain "make allmodconfig", so yes, now it will enable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS.

This is unacceptably slow. If that symbol trimming takes 30% of the
whole kernel build time, it needs to be fixed or removed.

Linus