Since post '319. Collection of errors when compiling kernel 3.7.x on AMD FX 8150' is getting traffic from people wanting to compile kernel 3.7.2, and because I didn't know whether the azx_runtime_suspend bug had been fixed, I had to try it out. So here's how to compile kernel 3.7.2 and 3.7.3 -- for 3.7.2 simply replace all instances of 3.7.3..
Looking at the code changes here: http://lists-archives.com/linux-kernel/27763782-alsa-hda-move-runtime-pm-check-to-runtime_idle-callback.html and comparing with what I'm actually seeing in sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c it seems that 3.7.2 and 3.7.3 have been fixed and no patches need to be applied.
Testing the kernel bears that out.
Compiling the kernel
sudo apt-get install kernel-package fakeroot build-essential ncurses-bin ncurses-dev mkdir ~/tmp cd ~/tmp wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.7.3.tar.bz2 tar xvf linux-3.7.3.tar.bz2 cd linux-3.7.3/ cat /boot/config-`uname -r`>.config make oldconfig make-kpkg clean
If you want to add specific drivers etc to the kernel, run
make menuconfig
Note that if you're transitioning from kernel 3.5 to 3.7 you will needto specifically and explicitly include a lot of the graphics (pci tv cards, usb web cams) drivers that used to be automatically included before. Then continue:
time fakeroot make-kpkg -j6 --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers sudo dpkg -i ../linux-image-3.7.3_3.7.3-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb ../linux-headers-3.7.3_3.7.3-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
And you're done. Keep reading to learn more about -j6.
Optimal -jN
See here for another post on -jN: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/305-make-jn-should-n-equal-number-of.html. In short, it's not always clear whether N should equal the number of cores, or be larger than the number of cores. In that post, N+1 was the optimal configuration, but that was a very short compilation where i/o likely played a large role.
More data is needed, so here it is. Seems like N=number of cores is the best option for long builds (as was pointed out to me in a comment). This was done with kernel 3.7.2.
On a four-core Intel i5-2400 with 16 Gb memoryN Time ------------- 2 30m 58s 3 22m 36s 4 19m 49s 5 22m 2s 6 23m 13s
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| Acquired using sar/sysstat |
On a six-core AMD Phenom II 1055T with 8 Gb memoryN Time (s) ------------- 4 34m 16s 5 27m 19s 6 24m 60s 7 30m 18s 8 31m 47s
Hardware profiles:
Intel machine:
00:00.0 0600: 8086:0100 (rev 09) 00:02.0 0300: 8086:0102 (rev 09) 00:16.0 0780: 8086:1c3a (rev 04) 00:16.3 0700: 8086:1c3d (rev 04) 00:19.0 0200: 8086:1502 (rev 04) 00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:1c2d (rev 04) 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:1c20 (rev 04) 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:1c10 (rev b4) 00:1c.2 0604: 8086:1c14 (rev b4) 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:1c26 (rev 04) 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev a4) 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:1c4e (rev 04) 00:1f.2 0104: 8086:2822 (rev 04) 00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:1c22 (rev 04)
AMD machine:
00:00.0 0600: 1022:9601 00:01.0 0604: 1022:9602 00:07.0 0604: 1022:9607 00:11.0 0106: 1002:4390 00:12.0 0c03: 1002:4397 00:12.1 0c03: 1002:4398 00:12.2 0c03: 1002:4396 00:13.0 0c03: 1002:4397 00:13.1 0c03: 1002:4398 00:13.2 0c03: 1002:4396 00:14.0 0c05: 1002:4385 (rev 3c) 00:14.1 0101: 1002:439c 00:14.2 0403: 1002:4383 00:14.3 0601: 1002:439d 00:14.4 0604: 1002:4384 00:14.5 0c03: 1002:4399 00:18.0 0600: 1022:1200 00:18.1 0600: 1022:1201 00:18.2 0600: 1022:1202 00:18.3 0600: 1022:1203 00:18.4 0600: 1022:1204 01:05.0 0300: 1002:9715 01:05.1 0403: 1002:970f 02:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 03) 03:05.0 0200: 10ec:8169 (rev 10
