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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-03-12 09:32:10 +0100
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-03-25 18:28:29 +0100
commitae358196fac3a0b4d2a7d47a4f401e3421027b03 (patch)
tree183b84e1a566c504bffc71cb65afea6270d96135 /tools/objtool/elf.h
parent530389968739883a61192767e1c215653ba4ba2b (diff)
downloadlinux-ae358196fac3a0b4d2a7d47a4f401e3421027b03.tar.bz2
objtool: Optimize find_section_by_name()
In order to avoid yet another linear search of (20k) sections, add a name based hash. This reduces objtool runtime on vmlinux.o by some 10s to around 35s. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.440174280@infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool/elf.h')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/elf.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/elf.h
index 8c272eb515c8..ac7c46f7d9ab 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <gelf.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/hashtable.h>
+#include <linux/jhash.h>
#ifdef LIBELF_USE_DEPRECATED
# define elf_getshdrnum elf_getshnum
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@
struct section {
struct list_head list;
struct hlist_node hash;
+ struct hlist_node name_hash;
GElf_Shdr sh;
struct list_head symbol_list;
struct list_head rela_list;
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ struct elf {
struct list_head sections;
DECLARE_HASHTABLE(symbol_hash, 20);
DECLARE_HASHTABLE(section_hash, 16);
+ DECLARE_HASHTABLE(section_name_hash, 16);
};