Re: [PATCHv3 bpf-next 1/3] livepatch: Improve the search performance of module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol()

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 03:47:15PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2023, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> 
> > From: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Currently we traverse all symbols of all modules to find the specified
> > function for the specified module. But in reality, we just need to find
> > the given module and then traverse all the symbols in it.
> > 
> > Let's add a new parameter 'const char *modname' to function
> > module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), then we can compare the module names
> > directly in this function and call hook 'fn' after matching. If 'modname'
> > is NULL, the symbols of all modules are still traversed for compatibility
> > with other usage cases.
> > 
> > Phase1: mod1-->mod2..(subsequent modules do not need to be compared)
> >                 |
> > Phase2:          -->f1-->f2-->f3
> > 
> > Assuming that there are m modules, each module has n symbols on average,
> > then the time complexity is reduced from O(m * n) to O(m) + O(n).
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

Yes, queued up, thanks!

  Luis



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