module: Use the binary search for symbols resolution

Takes advantage of the order and locates symbols using binary search.

This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index e8aa462301e7..d1db8eb56ad4 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 #include <linux/jump_label.h>
 #include <linux/pfn.h>
+#include <linux/bsearch.h>
 
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/events/module.h>
@@ -363,17 +364,27 @@ static bool check_symbol(const struct symsearch *syms,
 	return true;
 }
 
+static int cmp_name(const void *va, const void *vb)
+{
+	const char *a;
+	const struct kernel_symbol *b;
+	a = va; b = vb;
+	return strcmp(a, b->name);
+}
+
 static bool find_symbol_in_section(const struct symsearch *syms,
 				   struct module *owner,
 				   void *data)
 {
 	struct find_symbol_arg *fsa = data;
-	unsigned int i;
+	struct kernel_symbol *sym;
+
+	sym = bsearch(fsa->name, syms->start, syms->stop - syms->start,
+			sizeof(struct kernel_symbol), cmp_name);
+
+	if (sym != NULL && check_symbol(syms, owner, sym - syms->start, data))
+		return true;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < syms->stop - syms->start; i++) {
-		if (strcmp(syms->start[i].name, fsa->name) == 0)
-			return check_symbol(syms, owner, i, data);
-	}
 	return false;
 }