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I had a feeling that kernel compilation got slower recently and tried to find the slowest file across randconfig builds. It turned out to be arch/x86/xen/setup.c, which takes 15 seconds to preprocess on a reasonably fast Apple M1 Ultra.

This all comes from one line "extra_pages = min3(EXTRA_MEM_RATIO * min(max_pfn, PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM)), extra_pages, max_pages - max_pfn);" that expands to 47MB of preprocessor output after commits 80fcac55385c..867046cc70277.

If anyone wonders what other files are bad, this is the list of all files with over five second compile times: pastebin.com/raw/fXJe7y9P.

The worst case for this particular file was 44 seconds, three times slower than in defconfig.

The median compile time across all files is 0.26s.

penguin42

@arnd I guess the AMD ones are all the huge register definitions they have?