Re: [PATCH v3 08/20] kbuild: cache list, composite object state per object

From: Kees Cook

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 18:43:36 EST


On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 05:06:18PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> Fix the issue by caching this data and looking it up instead of getting it
> over and over again.

Nit: I would describe this as "calculate these once". It _is_ caching,
but I think with Makefiles there is an implication the "caching" means
"write to disk". But maybe that's just me.

> This has a particularly large impact on allmodconfig builds.

Love it. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>

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