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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] reduce load time for modules with lots of relocs
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:29:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071106152957.63fcbf9f.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071106023355.GJ9695@localdomain>

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On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:33:55 -0600 Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>  static unsigned int count_relocs(const Elf32_Rela *rela, unsigned int num)
>  {
> -	unsigned int i, j, ret = 0;
> +	unsigned int i, sorted_count = 0;
> +	Elf32_Word last_info;
> +	Elf32_Sword last_addend;
> +	Elf32_Rela **sortbuf = NULL;

You don't need to initialise sortbuf and f you make it a "const
Elf32_Rela **" ...

> +	sortbuf = vmalloc(num * sizeof(*sortbuf));
> +	if (!sortbuf)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
> +		sortbuf[i] = (Elf32_Rela *)&rela[i];

You shouldn't need that cast.

> -static unsigned int count_relocs(const Elf64_Rela *rela, unsigned int num)
> +static int count_relocs(const Elf64_Rela *rela, unsigned int num)
>  {
>  	unsigned int i, j, ret = 0;
> +	Elf64_Xword last_info;
> +	Elf64_Sxword last_addend;
> +	Elf64_Rela **sortbuf = NULL;

Same here.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-01 23:34 Module with 36K relocation entries Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
2007-11-01 23:57 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-11-06  2:33   ` [RFC/PATCH] reduce load time for modules with lots of relocs Nathan Lynch
2007-11-06  4:29     ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2007-11-06 23:58     ` Medve Emilian
2007-11-07  1:19       ` Nathan Lynch

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