Re: [PATCH 0/3] kallsyms: Accelerate symbol name lookups by ~19x

[Kees Cook]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 09:58:54PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> Memory footprint: +573 KiB .rodata for kallsyms_names_offsets (191k
> symbols * 3 bytes on x86_64 defconfig), minus ~2 KiB from dropping
> kallsyms_markers[].

The speed-up is impressive, but I have to say 500KB is not exactly
trivial. It's not _huge_, but it's not small. Is the rate of symbol
lookups in the kernel high enough to justify this loss of memory?

-- 
Kees Cook