kallsyms: Add helper kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol()
authorZhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Wed, 2 Nov 2022 08:49:17 +0000 (16:49 +0800)
committerLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:47:36 +0000 (18:47 -0800)
commit4dc533e0f2c04174e1ae4aa98e7cffc1c04b9998
tree0b4cbb902187f2870e0e9112f78bd795bec9bcb3
parent19bd8981dc2ee35fdc81ab1b0104b607c917d470
kallsyms: Add helper kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol()

Function kallsyms_on_each_symbol() traverses all symbols and submits each
symbol to the hook 'fn' for judgment and processing. For some cases, the
hook actually only handles the matched symbol, such as livepatch.

Because all symbols are currently sorted by name, all the symbols with the
same name are clustered together. Function kallsyms_lookup_names() gets
the start and end positions of the set corresponding to the specified
name. So we can easily and quickly traverse all the matches.

The test results are as follows (twice): (x86)
kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol:     7454,     7984
kallsyms_on_each_symbol      : 1173380911785803

kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() consumes only 0.066% of
kallsyms_on_each_symbol()'s time. In other words, 1523x better
performance.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
include/linux/kallsyms.h
kernel/kallsyms.c