module: Fix performance regression on modules with large symbol tables
Looking at /proc/kallsyms, one starts to ponder whether all of the extra
strtab-related complexity in module.c is worth the memory savings.
Instead of making the add_kallsyms() loop even more complex, I tried the
other route of deleting the strmap logic and naively copying each string
into core_strtab with no consideration for consolidating duplicates.
Performance on an "already exists" insmod of nvidia.ko (runs
add_kallsyms() but does not actually initialize the module):
Original scheme: 1.230s
With naive copying: 0.058s
Extra space used: 35k (of a 408k module).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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