Subject	perf build: Reduce build time by nearly half
Author	irogers@google.com
Date	2026-05-15 19:33:01 +0000 UTC
Version	Version 2 Version 3 Version 4 Version 5 Version 6 Version 7
Cc	9erthalion6@gmail.com acme@kernel.org adrian.hunter@intel.com alex@ghiti.fr alexandre.chartre@oracle.com andrii@kernel.org ankur.a.arora@oracle.com aou@eecs.berkeley.edu bpf@vger.kernel.org collin.funk1@gmail.com costa.shul@redhat.com daniel@iogearbox.net dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com dsterba@suse.com eddyz87@gmail.com howardchu95@gmail.com irogers@google.com james.clark@linaro.org jolsa@kernel.org leo.yan@arm.com linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org martin.lau@linux.dev memxor@gmail.com mingo@redhat.com mmayer@broadcom.com namhyung@kernel.org nathan@kernel.org palmer@dabbelt.com peterz@infradead.org pjw@kernel.org qmo@kernel.org ricky.ringler@proton.me song@kernel.org swapnil.sapkal@amd.com terrelln@fb.com tglozar@redhat.com thomas.falcon@intel.com yonghong.song@linux.dev

Patches (14)

Name	Content [All]
[PATCH v5 01/14] tools build: Fix feature checks to touch target files on success	[Body]
[PATCH v5 02/14] perf trace beauty: Make beauty generated C code standalone .o files	[Body]
[PATCH v5 03/14] perf build: Decouple pmu-events from prepare umbrella target	[Body]
[PATCH v5 04/14] perf build: Remove empty archheaders target	[Body]
[PATCH v5 05/14] perf build: Move BPF skeleton generation out of Makefile.perf	[Body]
[PATCH v5 06/14] perf build: Encapsulate vmlinux.h and bpftool in bpf_skel.mak	[Body]
[PATCH v5 07/14] perf build: Pre-generate BPF skeleton tooling during umbrella prepare phase	[Body]
[PATCH v5 08/14] perf build: Move libsymbol dependency out of prepare step	[Body]
[PATCH v5 09/14] perf build: Remove redundant libbpf feature check for static builds	[Body]
[PATCH v5 10/14] perf pmu-events: Split big_c_string storage into standalone compilation unit	[Body]
[PATCH v5 11/14] perf pmu-events: Parallelize JSON and metric pre-computation in jevents.py	[Body]
[PATCH v5 12/14] perf build: Prefix SCRIPTS with output directory to fix continuous rebuilds	[Body]
[PATCH v5 13/14] perf pmu-events: Convert recursive shell assignments and macros to Make built-ins	[Body]
[PATCH v5 14/14] perf build: Convert llvm-config shell queries to simply expanded variables	[Body]

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