What are these files for? $ cat ../obj/include/linux/kernel.h.s .file "null" .text .ident "GCC: (Gentoo 9.1.0-r1 p1.1) 9.1.0" .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits $ find ../obj/ -type f -name '*.s' | wc -l 4047 It is "allyesconfig" in case someone is going to reproduce it.