Re: [PATCH v8 6/9] livepatch: Use kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() to improve performance

Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2022-11-24T02:36:37Z

On 2022/11/23 21:28, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am sorry for the late review. I have been snowed under another
> tasks.
>
> On Wed 2022-11-02 16:49:18, Zhen Lei wrote:
>> Based on the test results of kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() and
>> kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), the average performance can be improved by
>> more than 1500 times.
>
> Sounds great.
>
>> --- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
>> @@ -153,6 +153,24 @@ static int klp_find_callback(void *data, const char *name,
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> +static int klp_match_callback(void *data, unsigned long addr)
>> +{
>> + struct klp_find_arg *args = data;
>> +
>> + args->addr = addr;
>> + args->count++;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * Finish the search when the symbol is found for the desired position
>> + * or the position is not defined for a non-unique symbol.
>> + */
>> + if ((args->pos && (args->count == args->pos)) ||
>> + (!args->pos && (args->count > 1)))
>> + return 1;
>> +
>> + return 0;
>
> This duplicates most of the klp_find_callback(). Please, call this
> new function in klp_find_callback() instead of the duplicated code.
> I mean to do:
>
> static int klp_find_callback(void *data, const char *name, unsigned long addr)
> {
> struct klp_find_arg *args = data;
>
> if (strcmp(args->name, name))
> return 0;
>
> return klp_match_callback(data, addr);
> }

Good idea. But these patches have been merged into linux-next, how about I post
a new cleanup patch after v6.2-rc1?

>
> Otherwise, it looks good.
>
> Best Regards,
> Petr
> .
>

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Regards,
Zhen Lei