[PATCH] kconfig: Fix Kconfig performance bug

When doing its recursive dependency check, scripts/kconfig/conf uses the flag
SYMBOL_CHECK_DONE to avoid rechecking a symbol it has already checked.
However, that flag is only set at the top level, so if a symbol is first
encountered as a dependency of another symbol it will be rechecked every time
it is encountered until it's encountered at the top level.

This patch adjusts the flag setting so that each symbol will only be checked
once, regardless of whether it is first encountered at the top level, or while
recursing down from another symbol.  On complex configurations, this vastly
speeds up scripts/kconfig/conf.  The config in the powerpc merge tree is
particularly bad: this patch reduces the time for 'scripts/kconfig/conf -o
arch/powerpc/Kconfig' by a factor of 40 on a G5.  That's even including the
time to print the config, so the speedup in the actual checking is more likely
2 or 3 orders of magnitude.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped
index ff4fcc09720e..da12f7b33be3 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped
@@ -1933,10 +1933,7 @@ void conf_parse(const char *name)
 		exit(1);
 	menu_finalize(&rootmenu);
 	for_all_symbols(i, sym) {
-                if (!(sym->flags & SYMBOL_CHECKED) && sym_check_deps(sym))
-                        printf("\n");
-		else
-			sym->flags |= SYMBOL_CHECK_DONE;
+		sym_check_deps(sym);
         }
 
 	sym_change_count = 1;