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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-03-10 20:43:35 +0300
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-03-25 20:28:28 +0300
commit530389968739883a61192767e1c215653ba4ba2b (patch)
treed2963d5d64e6c16f6d72ef84053fc34dda57db35 /tools/objtool/elf.c
parent1e11f3fdc326d7466e43185ea943b6156143387c (diff)
downloadlinux-530389968739883a61192767e1c215653ba4ba2b.tar.xz
objtool: Optimize find_section_by_index()
In order to avoid a linear search (over 20k entries), add an section_hash to the elf object. This reduces objtool on vmlinux.o from a few minutes to around 45 seconds. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.381249993@infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool/elf.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/elf.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index ff293064b469..900771365ae3 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static struct section *find_section_by_index(struct elf *elf,
{
struct section *sec;
- list_for_each_entry(sec, &elf->sections, list)
+ hash_for_each_possible(elf->section_hash, sec, hash, idx)
if (sec->idx == idx)
return sec;
@@ -166,8 +166,6 @@ static int read_sections(struct elf *elf)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sec->rela_list);
hash_init(sec->rela_hash);
- list_add_tail(&sec->list, &elf->sections);
-
s = elf_getscn(elf->elf, i);
if (!s) {
WARN_ELF("elf_getscn");
@@ -201,6 +199,9 @@ static int read_sections(struct elf *elf)
}
}
sec->len = sec->sh.sh_size;
+
+ list_add_tail(&sec->list, &elf->sections);
+ hash_add(elf->section_hash, &sec->hash, sec->idx);
}
if (stats)
@@ -439,6 +440,7 @@ struct elf *elf_read(const char *name, int flags)
memset(elf, 0, sizeof(*elf));
hash_init(elf->symbol_hash);
+ hash_init(elf->section_hash);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&elf->sections);
elf->fd = open(name, flags);
@@ -501,8 +503,6 @@ struct section *elf_create_section(struct elf *elf, const char *name,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sec->rela_list);
hash_init(sec->rela_hash);
- list_add_tail(&sec->list, &elf->sections);
-
s = elf_newscn(elf->elf);
if (!s) {
WARN_ELF("elf_newscn");
@@ -579,6 +579,9 @@ struct section *elf_create_section(struct elf *elf, const char *name,
shstrtab->len += strlen(name) + 1;
shstrtab->changed = true;
+ list_add_tail(&sec->list, &elf->sections);
+ hash_add(elf->section_hash, &sec->hash, sec->idx);
+
return sec;
}