Re: [PATCH] modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address isin a module

[Ingo Molnar]

* Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thursday 12 June 2008 10:20:58 Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Or, we could actually make those as variables and update them in module.c
> > itself.  No arch changes required, and pretty easy to understand.
> 
> And since you didn't reply, here's the patch.
> 
> modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module
> 
> This patch keeps track of the boundaries of module allocation, in
> order to speed up module_text_address().
> 
> Inspired by Arjan's version, which required arch-specific defines:

great - i've also put this into tip/out-of-tree for more testing.

	Ingo
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