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kbuild: update config_data.gz only when the content of .config is changed

If the timestamp of the .config file is updated, config_data.gz is
regenerated, then vmlinux is re-linked. This occurs even if the content
of the .config has not changed at all.

This issue was mitigated by commit 67424f61f813 ("kconfig: do not write
.config if the content is the same"); Kconfig does not update the
.config when it ends up with the identical configuration.

The issue is remaining when the .config is created by *_defconfig with
some config fragment(s) applied on top.

This is typical for powerpc and mips, where several *_defconfig targets
are constructed by using merge_config.sh.

One workaround is to have the copy of the .config. The filechk rule
updates the copy, kernel/config_data, by checking the content instead
of the timestamp.

With this commit, the second run with the same configuration avoids
the needless rebuilds.

$ make ARCH=mips defconfig all
[ snip ]
$ make ARCH=mips defconfig all
*** Default configuration is based on target '32r2el_defconfig'
Using ./arch/mips/configs/generic_defconfig as base
Merging arch/mips/configs/generic/32r2.config
Merging arch/mips/configs/generic/el.config
Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-boston.config
Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-ni169445.config
Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-ocelot.config
Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-ranchu.config
Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-sead-3.config
Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-xilfpga.config
#
# configuration written to .config
#
SYNC include/config/auto.conf
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
CHK include/generated/compile.h
CHK include/generated/autoksyms.h

Reported-by: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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kernel/.gitignore
··· 1 1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2 + /config_data 2 3 kheaders.md5
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kernel/Makefile
··· 142 142 143 143 $(obj)/configs.o: $(obj)/config_data.gz 144 144 145 - targets += config_data.gz 146 - $(obj)/config_data.gz: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) FORCE 145 + targets += config_data config_data.gz 146 + $(obj)/config_data.gz: $(obj)/config_data FORCE 147 147 $(call if_changed,gzip) 148 + 149 + filechk_cat = cat $< 150 + 151 + $(obj)/config_data: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) FORCE 152 + $(call filechk,cat) 148 153 149 154 $(obj)/kheaders.o: $(obj)/kheaders_data.tar.xz 150 155