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

From: Alessio Igor Bogani
Date: Fri Mar 25 2011 - 12:30:20 EST


Dear Mr. Kleen,

2011/3/25 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
[...]
>> > 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.

What should that break exactly?
Thanks you very much!

Ciao,
Alessio
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