kbuild: speed up checksyscalls.sh

arndb · masahir0y · commit d21832e212d2 · 2017-06-10T01:15:36.000+09:00
checksyscalls.sh is run at every "make" run while building the kernel,
even if no files have changed. I looked at where we spend time in
a trivial empty rebuild and found checksyscalls.sh to be a source
of noticeable overhead, as it spawns a lot of child processes just
to call 'cat' copying from stdin to stdout, once for each of the
over 400 x86 syscalls.

Using a shell-builtin (echo) instead of the external command gives
us a 13x speedup:

    Before		   After
real	0m1.018s       real	0m0.077s
user	0m0.068s       user	0m0.048s
sys	0m0.156s       sys	0m0.024s

The time it took to rebuild a single file on my machine dropped
from 5.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
diff --git a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
@@ -202,15 +202,12 @@ EOF
 }
 
 syscall_list() {
-    grep '^[0-9]' "$1" | sort -n | (
+    grep '^[0-9]' "$1" | sort -n |
 	while read nr abi name entry ; do
-	    cat <<EOF
-#if !defined(__NR_${name}) && !defined(__IGNORE_${name})
-#warning syscall ${name} not implemented
-#endif
-EOF
+		echo "#if !defined(__NR_${name}) && !defined(__IGNORE_${name})"
+		echo "#warning syscall ${name} not implemented"
+		echo "#endif"
 	done
-    )
 }
 
 (ignore_list && syscall_list $(dirname $0)/../arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl) | \
