From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 next 08/15] kallsyms: Support changing the density of the kallsyms_markers[] array
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:51:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261018155206.132411-9-david.laight.linux@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261018155206.132411-1-david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
The density is a tradeoff between data size and execution speed.
Reducing it from 256 to 64 gives a 35% improvement for name lookups.
Change scripts/kallsyms to take the density from a --marker-shift command
line parameter so that it can be build specific.
The default is unchanged at 1 marker per 256 symbols.
Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
---
kernel/kallsyms.c | 16 +++++++---------
kernel/kallsyms_internal.h | 1 +
scripts/kallsyms.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index e393ede35111..ff2da8c8f7e3 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -148,13 +148,11 @@ static int kallsyms_strcmp_symbol(unsigned int off, const char *name)
static unsigned int get_symbol_offset(unsigned long pos)
{
const u8 *name;
- int i, len;
+ int len;
- /*
- * Use the closest marker we have. We have markers every 256 positions,
- * so that should be close enough.
- */
- name = &kallsyms_names[kallsyms_markers[pos >> 8]];
+ /* Scan from the marker before the requested symbol number */
+ name = &kallsyms_names[kallsyms_markers[pos >> kallsyms_marker_shift]];
+ pos &= (1 << kallsyms_marker_shift) - 1;
/*
* Sequentially scan all the symbols up to the point we're searching
@@ -162,7 +160,7 @@ static unsigned int get_symbol_offset(unsigned long pos)
* so we just need to add the len to the current pointer for every
* symbol we wish to skip.
*/
- for (i = 0; i < (pos & 0xFF); i++) {
+ while (pos--) {
len = *name;
/*
@@ -186,7 +184,7 @@ static unsigned long get_name_address(unsigned int name_offset)
unsigned int low, pos, high;
low = 0;
- high = ((kallsyms_num_syms - 1) >> 8) + 1;
+ high = ((kallsyms_num_syms - 1) >> kallsyms_marker_shift) + 1;
while (high - low > 1) {
pos = low + (high - low) / 2;
@@ -197,7 +195,7 @@ static unsigned long get_name_address(unsigned int name_offset)
}
pos = kallsyms_markers[low];
- for (low <<= 8; pos < name_offset; low++) {
+ for (low <<= kallsyms_marker_shift; pos < name_offset; low++) {
unsigned int len = kallsyms_names[pos];
if (len & 0x80)
len += (kallsyms_names[pos + 1] << 7) - 0x7f;
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms_internal.h b/kernel/kallsyms_internal.h
index e4a1f737aed1..b98469b5c2f5 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms_internal.h
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms_internal.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ extern const unsigned int kallsyms_num_syms;
extern const char kallsyms_token_table[];
extern const u16 kallsyms_token_index[];
+extern const unsigned int kallsyms_marker_shift;
extern const unsigned int kallsyms_markers[];
extern const unsigned int kallsyms_off_size;
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 2e579e1cf7de..d2d3ac8c33a1 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ static struct sym_entry **table;
static unsigned int table_size, table_cnt;
static int all_symbols;
static int pc_relative;
+/* Default to one kallsyms_markers[] entry for each 256 symbols */
+static unsigned long marker_shift = 8;
static int token_profit[0x10000];
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ static unsigned char best_table_len[256];
static void usage(void)
{
- fprintf(stderr, "Usage: kallsyms [--all-symbols] in.map > out.S\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: kallsyms [--all-symbols] [--pc-relative] [--marker-shift=n] in.map > out.S\n");
exit(1);
}
@@ -391,8 +393,9 @@ static void write_src(void)
printf(".size kallsyms_names, . - kallsyms_names\n");
printf("\n");
+ output_value("kallsyms_marker_shift", marker_shift);
output_label("kallsyms_markers");
- for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i += 256)
+ for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i += 1u << marker_shift)
printf("\t.long\t%u\n", table[i]->seq);
printf(".size kallsyms_markers, . - kallsyms_markers\n");
printf("\n");
@@ -696,17 +699,28 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
while (1) {
static const struct option long_options[] = {
- {"all-symbols", no_argument, &all_symbols, 1},
- {"pc-relative", no_argument, &pc_relative, 1},
+ {"all-symbols", no_argument, &all_symbols, 1},
+ {"pc-relative", no_argument, &pc_relative, 1},
+ {"marker-shift", required_argument, NULL, 'm'},
{},
};
- int c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "", long_options, NULL);
-
- if (c == -1)
+ switch (getopt_long(argc, argv, "", long_options, NULL)) {
+ case -1:
break;
- if (c != 0)
+ case 0:
+ continue;
+ case 'm':
+ if (!optarg[0])
+ continue;
+ marker_shift = strtoul(optarg, NULL, 10);
+ if (marker_shift > 24)
+ usage();
+ continue;
+ default:
usage();
+ }
+ break;
}
if (optind >= argc)
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-18 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-18 15:51 [PATCH v2 next 00/15] kallsyms: optimise symbol search by name David Laight
2026-10-18 15:51 ` [PATCH v2 next 01/15] kallsyms: scripts/kallsyms.c: Avoid overrunning on-stack buffer David Laight
2026-10-18 15:51 ` [PATCH v2 next 02/15] kallsyms: Fix selftest startup delay David Laight
2026-10-18 15:51 ` [PATCH v2 next 03/15] kallsyms: Improve selftest test_perf_kallsyms_lookup_name() output David Laight
2026-10-18 15:51 ` [PATCH v2 next 04/15] kallsyms: scripts/kallsyms: Check for output file write errors David Laight
2026-10-18 15:51 ` [PATCH v2 next 05/15] kallsyms: Match compressed tokens on the fly during binary search David Laight
2026-10-18 15:51 ` [PATCH v2 next 06/15] kallsyms: Optimise symbol name search David Laight
2026-10-18 15:51 ` [PATCH v2 next 07/15] kallsyms: Optimise detection of duplicate symbol names David Laight
2026-10-18 15:51 ` David Laight [this message]
2026-10-18 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 next 09/15] kallsyms: Add a kernel parameter for the marker shift David Laight
2026-10-18 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 next 10/15] kallsyms: scripts/kallsyms: Rename some variables for clarity David Laight
2026-10-18 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 next 11/15] kallsyms: scripts/kallsyms: Keep full expansion of tokens David Laight
2026-10-18 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 next 12/15] kallsyms: scripts/kallsyms: Optimise compress_symbols() David Laight
2026-10-18 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 next 13/15] kallsyms: scripts/kallsyms: Reuse tokens that have no references David Laight
2026-10-18 15:52 ` [PATCH 14/15] kallsyms: scripts/kallsyms: Reduce the output file size David Laight
2026-10-18 15:52 ` [PATCH 15/15] kallsyms: scripts/kallsyms: Improve compression by about 2% David Laight
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