tree 3833a5f467f0958eaeab9f86f207dca60868bb0d
parent 403ed27846aa126ecf0b842b5b179c506b9d989c
author Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> 1305750959 +0200
committer Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 1305789927 +0930

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>