linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] module: Fix performance regression on modules with large symbol tables

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Message-Id: <4EB8EE31020000780005F869@novprvoes0310.provo.novell.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:54:09 -0700
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Kevin Cernekee" <cernekee@...il.com>
Cc:	"Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	<linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: Fix performance regression on modules with
 large symbol tables

>>> On 07.11.11 at 20:58, Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com> wrote:
> We will also want to check the strmap bits, since it's possible that
> "cba_" was a core symbol but "edcba_" is not.  In which case we did not
> allocate room for the "ed" part, back in layout_symtab().

Why would you want to keep the leading part if it's not part of a
core symbol's name?

Jan

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