Re: [PATCH 2/2] Replace the linear search with a binary search for locate the symbols

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:44:24PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:54:57 -0700, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
> > 
> > Patch looks good to me. SORT is a nice trick, too bad it won't 
> > work for the main kernel.
> 
> Why not?

Because kallsyms is supposed to be in address order, not name order.

-Andi
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