linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Replace the linear search with a binary search for locate the symbols

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Message-ID: <20110325154118.GN21838@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:41:18 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ian Lance Taylor <ian@...s.com>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Replace the linear search with a binary search for locate the symbols

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:44:24PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:54:57 -0700, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org> writes:
> > 
> > > This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
> > 
> > Patch looks good to me. SORT is a nice trick, too bad it won't 
> > work for the main kernel.
> 
> Why not?

Because kallsyms is supposed to be in address order, not name order.

-Andi
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