Hi Greg, It follows a series of improvements for get_abi.pl. it is on the top of next-20210923. With such changes, on my development tree, the script is taking 6 seconds to run on my desktop: $ !1076 $ time ./scripts/get_abi.pl undefined |sort >undefined_after && cat undefined_after| perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if (m#.*/(\S+) not found#)'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr >undefined_symbols; wc -l undefined_after undefined_symbols real 0m6,292s user 0m5,640s sys 0m0,634s 6838 undefined_after 808 undefined_symbols 7646 total And 7 seconds on a Dell Precision 5820: $ time ./scripts/get_abi.pl undefined |sort >undefined && cat undefined| perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if (m#.*/(\S+) not found#)'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr >undefined_symbols; wc -l undefined; wc -l undefined_symbols real 0m7.162s user 0m5.836s sys 0m1.329s 6548 undefined 772 undefined_symbols Both tests were done against this tree (based on today's linux-next): $ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/devel.git/log/?h=get_abi_undefined-latest It should be noticed that, as my tree has several ABI fixes, the time to run the script is likely less than if you run on your tree, as there will be less symbols to be reported, and the algorithm is optimized to reduce the number of regexes when a symbol is found. Besides optimizing and improving the seek logic, this series also change the debug logic. It how receives a bitmap, where "8" means to print the regexes that will be used by "undefined" command: $ time ./scripts/get_abi.pl undefined --debug 8 >foo real 0m17,189s user 0m13,940s sys 0m2,404s $wc -l foo 18421939 foo $ cat foo ... /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded =~ /^(?^:^/sys/.*/iio\:device.*/in_voltage.*_scale_available$)$/ /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded =~ /^(?^:^/sys/.*/iio\:device.*/out_voltage.*_scale_available$)$/ /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded =~ /^(?^:^/sys/.*/iio\:device.*/out_altvoltage.*_scale_available$)$/ /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded =~ /^(?^:^/sys/.*/iio\:device.*/in_pressure.*_scale_available$)$/ ... On other words, on my desktop, the /sys match is performing >18M regular expression searches, which takes 6,2 seconds (or 17,2 seconds, if debug is enabled and sent to an area on my nvme storage). Regards, Mauro --- Mauro Carvalho Chehab (13): scripts: get_abi.pl: Better handle multiple What parameters scripts: get_abi.pl: Check for missing symbols at the ABI specs scripts: get_abi.pl: detect softlinks scripts: get_abi.pl: add an option to filter undefined results scripts: get_abi.pl: don't skip what that ends with wildcards scripts: get_abi.pl: Ignore fs/cgroup sysfs nodes earlier scripts: get_abi.pl: add a graph to speedup the undefined algorithm scripts: get_abi.pl: improve debug logic scripts: get_abi.pl: Better handle leaves with wildcards scripts: get_abi.pl: ignore some sysfs nodes earlier scripts: get_abi.pl: stop check loop earlier when regex is found scripts: get_abi.pl: precompile what match regexes scripts: get_abi.pl: ensure that "others" regex will be parsed scripts/get_abi.pl | 388 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 372 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) -- 2.31.1