Re: [PATCH] module: Use binary search in lookup_symbol()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon May 16 2011 - 17:01:40 EST


On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 22:23 +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
> This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/module.c | 6 ++----
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index 6a34337..54355c5 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -2055,10 +2055,8 @@ static const struct kernel_symbol *lookup_symbol(const char *name,
> const struct kernel_symbol *stop)
> {
> const struct kernel_symbol *ks = start;
> - for (; ks < stop; ks++)
> - if (strcmp(ks->name, name) == 0)
> - return ks;
> - return NULL;
> + return bsearch(name, start, stop - start,
> + sizeof(struct kernel_symbol), cmp_name);
> }
>
> static int is_exported(const char *name, unsigned long value,

ks isn't used anymore.
why cmp_name and not strcmp?


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