module: Use binary search in lookup_symbol()
The function is_exported() with its helper function lookup_symbol() are used to
verify if a provided symbol is effectively exported by the kernel or by the
modules. Now that both have their symbols sorted we can replace a linear search
with a binary search which provide a considerably speed-up.
This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index d1db8eb..2287972 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2055,11 +2055,8 @@
const struct kernel_symbol *start,
const struct kernel_symbol *stop)
{
- const struct kernel_symbol *ks = start;
- for (; ks < stop; ks++)
- if (strcmp(ks->name, name) == 0)
- return ks;
- return NULL;
+ return bsearch(name, start, stop - start,
+ sizeof(struct kernel_symbol), cmp_name);
}
static int is_exported(const char *name, unsigned long value,