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Commit 042ba73f authored by Josh Poimboeuf's avatar Josh Poimboeuf Committed by Ingo Molnar
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objtool: Add several performance improvements



Use hash tables for instruction and rela lookups (and keep the linked
lists around for sequential access).

Also cache the section struct for the "__func_stack_frame_non_standard"
section.

With this change, "objtool check net/wireless/nl80211.o" goes from:

  real	0m1.168s
  user	0m1.163s
  sys	0m0.005s

to:

  real	0m0.059s
  user	0m0.042s
  sys	0m0.017s

for a 20x speedup.

With the same object, it should be noted that the memory heap usage grew
from 8MB to 62MB.  Reducing the memory usage is on the TODO list.

Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dd0d8e1449506cfa7701b4e7ba73577077c44253.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 1698872b
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