We configure the guest VM to have two processors, and proceed with the parallelized build (by specifying make -j4 ):
$ cd <linux-4.17-kernel-src-dir>$ perf stat make V=0 -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- allscripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig CHK include/config/kernel.release SYSHDR arch/arm/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd-oabi.h SYSHDR arch/arm/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd-common.h WRAP arch/arm/include/generated/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h WRAP arch/arm/include/generated/uapi/asm/bpf_perf_event.h WRAP arch/arm/include/generated/uapi/asm/errno.h[...] << lots of output >> CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/string.o AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/hyp-stub.o AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/lib1funcs.o ...