Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: shrink vdso/extable.i via IWYU

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 08:56:35PM +0000, Tanzir Hasan wrote:
> This diff uses an open source tool include-what-you-use (IWYU) to modify
> the include list, changing indirect includes to direct includes. IWYU is
> implemented using the IWYUScripts github repository which is a tool that
> is currently undergoing development. These changes seek to improve build
> times.
> 
> This change to vdso/extable.c resulted in a preprocessed size of
> vdso/extable.i from 64332 lines to 45377 lines (-27%) for the x86
> defconfig.

Maybe I'm missing something but this sounds like the build-time
"improvement" is so minute that you have to look at preprocessed sizes.

Do you have any, more "noticeable" numbers to justify this churn?

Thx.

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