Kernel source generic project: Parsing code after kernel has been built takes many many hours to complete

Creating ticket as requested from mailing list: http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/qt-creator/2016-February/005372.html

Create the generic project as usual (import existing project), for what its worth, remember to add the 'include' directory to the includes as Qt Creator won't pick it by default.

Qt Creator parses (i.e. for the C code model) the Debian kernel source fine initially, but after building the kernel in-place and restarting, parsing maxes out a core for hours, eating many gigs of RAM (essentially it doesn't complete in a normal timeframe but does show progress - a loop?).

To recreate, on Debian Testing:

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sudo aptitude install kernel-package linux-headers linux-source

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Patched kernel source is now available at '/usr/src/linux-source-<kernel version>.tar.xz' - I extract this in a user directory and work with it.

To build the kernel (resulting in Debian archives), in the top-level source directory (set CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to your desired parallelism):

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CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=8 fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd
--append-to-version=-test kernel_image kernel_headers

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