[PATCH v3 04/20] kbuild: do not sort nm output where the order is irrelevant

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 05:06:14PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> There are places where this is unnecessary - an invocation from
> scripts/sorttable every vmlinux link, scripts/check-function-names.sh run
> after every vmlinux.o link, and the x86 VOFFSET and ZOFFSET listings
> between vmlinux and bzImage.
> [...]
>                                           before    after     delta
>                                         ---------------------------------
>   x86 defconfig, touch mm/vma.c, gcc        9.7s     9.5s    -0.18s (-2%)
>   x86 defconfig, touch mm/vma.c, clang      9.3s     9.0s    -0.27s (-3%)
>   x86 defconfig, clean, gcc                30.3s    30.1s    -0.16s (-1%)
>   x86 defconfig, clean, clang              31.7s    31.2s    -0.55s (-2%)
>   x86 allmodconfig, touch mm/vma.c, clang  36.4s    35.8s    -0.67s (-2%)
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs at kernel.org>

Not a huge boost, but it's a trivial change with a deterministic improvement.

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

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Kees Cook