On 02/08/2014 12:01 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: > LTO gcc puts a lot of data into $TMPDIR, essentially another copy > of the object directory to pass the repartitioned object files > to the code generation processes. > > TMPDIR defaults to /tmp With /tmp as tmpfs it's easy to drive systems to > out of memory, because they will compete with the already high anonymous > memory consumption of the wpa LTO pass. > > When LTO is set always set TMPDIR to the object directory. This could > be slightly slower, but is far safer and eliminates another parameter > the LTO user would need to set manually. > > I made it conditional on LTO for now. I think this really ought to use ?= so it doesn't override a TMPDIR explicitly set by the user. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
