Re: [PATCH] kallsyms data size reduction / lookup speedup

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 16:20:41 EST


On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:04:46AM +0100, pmarques@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> This patch is an improvement over my first kallsyms speedup patch posted about 2
> weeks ago.

My origianl comment still hold.
Decoupling the compression and decompression part is not good.
Better keep them close to each other.

Why not put all symbols in an __init section, compress them during kernel boot
and then the original section get discarded.

After a quick browse of the code.
- Use spaces around '=' etc.

Sam

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