[PATCH 4/4] kbuild: optimize object directory creation for incremental build

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Thu Nov 09 2017 - 10:43:12 EST


The previous commit largely optimized the object directory creation.
We can optimize it more for incremental build.

There are already *.cmd files in the output directory. The existing
*.cmd files have been picked up by $(wildcard ...). Obviously,
directories containing them exist too, so we can skip "mkdir -p".

With this, Kbuild runs almost zero "mkdir -p" in incremental building.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

scripts/Makefile.build | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 89ac180..90ea7a5 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -583,8 +583,13 @@ endif
ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
# Create directories for object files if directory does not exist
obj-dirs := $(sort $(obj) $(patsubst %/,%, $(dir $(targets))))
+# If cmd_files exist, their directories apparently exist. Skip mkdir.
+exist-dirs := $(sort $(patsubst %/,%, $(dir $(cmd_files))))
+obj-dirs := $(strip $(filter-out . $(exist-dirs), $(obj-dirs)))
+ifneq ($(obj-dirs),)
$(shell mkdir -p $(obj-dirs))
endif
+endif

# Declare the contents of the .PHONY variable as phony. We keep that
# information in a variable se we can use it in if_changed and friends.
--
2.7.4