Commit 53038996 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra
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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: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.381249993@infradead.org
parent 1e11f3fd
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+8 −5
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@@ -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;
}

+2 −0
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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@

struct section {
	struct list_head list;
	struct hlist_node hash;
	GElf_Shdr sh;
	struct list_head symbol_list;
	struct list_head rela_list;
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ struct elf {
	char *name;
	struct list_head sections;
	DECLARE_HASHTABLE(symbol_hash, 20);
	DECLARE_HASHTABLE(section_hash, 16);
};