[PATCH v2 00/21] kbuild: significantly speed up kernel builds

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 14 Sept 2026 at 08:41, Kees Cook <kees at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> One area I think might solved via an LLM is the 3-pass kallsyms stuff.
> If we could get a deterministic kallsyms build in 1 pass, that would be
> very nice. A lot of people have tried, but it has eluded upstreaming.

Even the three-pass one hasn't apparently always been entirely
deterministic. We've had random reports over the years of it failing
in some circumstances.

Maybe we've fixed it all, or maybe the failures just go imperceptibly
rare. Regardless, it has definitely been fragile.

               Linus