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

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 09:58:04AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 05:06:30PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  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

Thanks! :)

> 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.)

Ack, seems like it's open season on improving this stuff now which is good
I think!

I also believe there is more performance to be got in future series ;)

>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks! :)

>
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> Kees Cook

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Cheers, Lorenzo