Hi, On 9/1/25 10:52 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 09:51:01AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> Willy had a suggestion that we just make checking kernel-doc during >> all .c builds a permanent feature instead of a W=1 option. >> This helps, but still doesn't force 'make htmldocs' to be run. > > make htmldocs is rather slow: > > $ time make -j56 htmldocs > ... > make -j56 htmldocs 2355.99s user 141.33s system 158% cpu 26:14.86 total Wow. I just ran 'make -j8 htmldocs' on my 16 GB intel core-i7 laptop: 1205.85user 66.15system 6:05.82elapsed 347%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1298044maxresident)k 697432inputs+1128016outputs (92major+16863601minor)pagefaults 0swaps (using /usr/bin/time) How much RAM does your build system have? > > and produces a bunch of warnings with current mainline it seems. That > compares unfavourably with allmodconfig on this system: > > $ time make -j56 allmodconfig > ... > make -j56 allmodconfig 5.31s user 1.93s system 146% cpu 4.931 total > $ time make -j56 > ... > make -j56 53468.11s user 4387.30s system 5084% cpu 18:57.77 total whereas my x86_64 allmodconfig build takes over 1 hour. :( > and seems rather more likely to flag something for me. OK, good to hear. Thanks. -- ~Randy
