[PATCH v3 20/20] kbuild: compress the kernel with pigz if available

Kees Cook kees at kernel.org
Thu Sep 17 09:58:04 PDT 2026


On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 05:06:30PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs at kernel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst   | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/process/changes.rst |  8 ++++++++
>  Makefile                          |  5 ++++-
>  kernel/Makefile                   |  6 +++++-
>  scripts/Makefile.lib              |  4 ++--
>  scripts/jobserver-exec            |  3 ++-
>  tools/lib/python/jobserver.py     | 13 +++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Awesome; I love it. (I may send a follow-up to improve the PARALLELISM
token so things can define the fallback instead of the hard-coded "1",
but there is only one place I found where that might be useful, and it
will be totally separate from this.)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees at kernel.org>

-- 
Kees Cook



More information about the linux-riscv mailing list