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From: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	carmelo73@gmail.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/10] module: Speed up symbol resolution during module loading (using binary search)
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:59:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF5DF9F.5020208@tuffmail.co.uk> (raw)

As requested by Mike Frysinger, this version of the series

1) generalizes the use of CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX so that arbitrary symbol 
prefixes remain possible
2) uses CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX to implement VMLINUX_SYMBOL() in the 
generic linker script, instead of relying on arch linker scripts to 
define it if needed.


I also changed the position of the patch which implements the above 
changes.  So it is possible to revert or drop the actual optimizations, 
without removing the cleanups and annoying Mike (or Rusty, or Tejun Heo, 
or miscellaneous fans of lib/bsearch.c :).

A clean revert may be useful if hash tables are added in future, to 
avoid the complexity of keeping hash tables + sorted tables + unsorted 
tables.  (This current series leaves module symbol tables unsorted).

             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-07 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-07 20:59 Alan Jenkins [this message]
2009-11-07 21:03 ` [PATCH 01/10] ARM: use unified discard definition in linker script Alan Jenkins
2009-11-07 21:03 ` [PATCH 02/10] ARM: unexport symbols used to implement floating point emulation Alan Jenkins
2009-11-07 21:03 ` [PATCH 03/10] module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG option Alan Jenkins
2009-11-07 21:03 ` [PATCH 04/10] module: extract EXPORT_SYMBOL() from module.h into mod_export.h Alan Jenkins
2009-11-07 21:03 ` [PATCH 05/10] kbuild: sort the list of symbols exported by the kernel (__ksymtab) Alan Jenkins
2009-11-07 21:03 ` [PATCH 06/10] module: refactor symbol tables and try to reduce code size of each_symbol() Alan Jenkins
2009-11-07 21:03 ` [PATCH 07/10] lib: Add generic binary search function to the kernel Alan Jenkins
2009-11-07 21:03 ` [PATCH 08/10] lib: bsearch - remove redundant special case for arrays of size 0 Alan Jenkins
2009-11-07 21:04 ` [PATCH 09/10] module: speed up find_symbol() using binary search on the builtin symbol tables Alan Jenkins
2009-11-07 21:04 ` [PATCH 10/10] module: fix is_exported() to return true for all types of exports Alan Jenkins
2009-11-09  2:49   ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-02 16:52 Fast LKM symbol resolution Alan Jenkins
2009-11-03 10:06 ` [PATCH 0/10] module: Speed up symbol resolution during module loading (using binary search) Alan Jenkins
2009-11-03 15:58   ` Greg KH
2009-11-05 12:17     ` Rusty Russell

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