[PATCH 13/23] modpost: hash module source per-file, not per-byte

[Petr Pavlu]

On 9/8/26 10:55 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> modpost spends a long time md4 hashing module source at a per-byte
> granularity.
> 
> Fix this by doing this hashing per-file instead by accumulating a per-file
> buffer in parse_file().
> 
> All 11,189 .mod.c files and Module.symvers were confirmed to be identical
> with this change applied.
> 
> This is especially impactful for allmodconfig incremental builds (where
> CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is set).
> 
> Whole build, 128-thread Threadripper 9980X, best of N runs:
> 
>                                          before   after     delta
>                                          -------------------------------
>   x86 allmodconfig, touch mm/vma.c, gcc    40.6s    38.2s     -2.4s (-6%)
>   x86 allmodconfig, touch mm/vma.c, clang  36.2s    35.0s     -1.2s (-3%)
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs at kernel.org>
> ---
>  scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Support for the module srcversion is being removed in "module: remove
MODULE_VERSION() and srcversion" [1] and scripts/mod/sumversion.c should
be gone completely.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/20260731-module_ver_remove-v2-0-c9163858f382@linuxfoundation.org/

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Thanks,
Petr