[PATCH] sphinx: kernel_abi: fix performance regression with O=<dir>
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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-07-17 11:23:51
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Jonathan Corbet, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds
The logic there which adds a dependency note to Sphinx cache
is not taking into account that the build dir may not be
the source dir. This causes a performance regression:
$ time make O=/tmp/foo SPHINXDIRS=admin-guide htmldocs
[OUTDATED]
Added: set()
Changed: {'abi-obsolete', 'abi-removed', 'abi-stable-files', 'abi-obsolete-files', 'abi-stable', 'abi', 'abi-removed-files', 'abi-testing-files', 'abi-testing', 'gpio/index', 'gpio/obsolete'}
Removed: set()
All docs count: 385
Found docs count: 385
real 0m11,324s
user 0m15,783s
sys 0m1,164s
To get the root cause of the problem (ABI files reported as changed),
I used this changeset:
diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index e8766e689c1b..ab486623bd8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -571,3 +571,17 @@ def setup(app):
"""Patterns need to be updated at init time on older Sphinx versions"""
app.connect('config-inited', update_patterns)
+ app.connect('env-get-outdated', on_outdated)
+
+def on_outdated(app, env, added, changed, removed):
+ """Proper outdated handler with type conversion"""
+ print("\n[OUTDATED]")
+ print(f"Added: {added}")
+ print(f"Changed: {changed}")
+ print(f"Removed: {removed}")
+ print(f"All docs count: {len(env.all_docs)}")
+ print(f"Found docs count: {len(env.found_docs)}")
+
+ # Just return what we have
+ return added | changed | removed
+
Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/c174f7c5-ec21-4eae-b1c3-f643cca90d9d@gmail.com/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py
index db6f0380de94..4c4375201b9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py@@ -146,8 +146,10 @@ class KernelCmd(Directive): n += 1 if f != old_f: - # Add the file to Sphinx build dependencies - env.note_dependency(os.path.abspath(f)) + # Add the file to Sphinx build dependencies if the file exists + fname = os.path.join(srctree, f) + if os.path.isfile(fname): + env.note_dependency(fname) old_f = f
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