Re: [PATCH 0/8] (REBASED) get_abi.pl undefined: improve precision and performance

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 05:41:11PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> As requested, this is exactly the same changes, rebased on the top of
> driver-core/driver-core-next.
> 
> -
> 
> It follows a series of improvements for get_abi.pl. it is on the top of driver-core/driver-core-next.
> 
> With such changes, on my development tree, the script is taking 6 seconds to run 
> on my desktop:
> 
> 	$ !1076
> 	$ time ./scripts/get_abi.pl undefined |sort >undefined_after && cat undefined_after| perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if (m#.*/(\S+) not found#)'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr >undefined_symbols; wc -l undefined_after undefined_symbols
> 
> 	real	0m6,292s
> 	user	0m5,640s
> 	sys	0m0,634s
> 	  6838 undefined_after
> 	   808 undefined_symbols
> 	  7646 total
> 
> And 7 seconds on a Dell Precision 5820:
> 
> 	$ time ./scripts/get_abi.pl undefined |sort >undefined && cat undefined| perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if (m#.*/(\S+) not found#)'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr >undefined_symbols; wc -l undefined; wc -l undefined_symbols
> 
> 	real	0m7.162s
> 	user	0m5.836s
> 	sys	0m1.329s
> 	6548 undefined
> 	772 undefined_symbols
> 
> Both tests were done against this tree (based on today's linux-next):
> 
> 	$ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/devel.git/log/?h=get_abi_undefined-latest
> 
> It should be noticed that, as my tree has several ABI fixes,  the time to run the
> script is likely less than if you run on your tree, as there will be less symbols to
> be reported, and the algorithm is optimized to reduce the number of regexes
> when a symbol is found.
> 
> Besides optimizing and improving the seek logic, this series also change the
> debug logic. It how receives a bitmap, where "8" means to print the regexes
> that will be used by "undefined" command:
> 
> 	$ time ./scripts/get_abi.pl undefined --debug 8 >foo
> 	real	0m17,189s
> 	user	0m13,940s
> 	sys	0m2,404s
> 
> 	$wc -l foo
> 	18421939 foo
> 
> 	$ cat foo
> 	...
> 	/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded =~ /^(?^:^/sys/.*/iio\:device.*/in_voltage.*_scale_available$)$/
> 	/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded =~ /^(?^:^/sys/.*/iio\:device.*/out_voltage.*_scale_available$)$/
> 	/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded =~ /^(?^:^/sys/.*/iio\:device.*/out_altvoltage.*_scale_available$)$/
> 	/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded =~ /^(?^:^/sys/.*/iio\:device.*/in_pressure.*_scale_available$)$/
> 	...
> 
> On other words, on my desktop, the /sys match is performing >18M regular 
> expression searches, which takes 6,2 seconds (or 17,2 seconds, if debug is 
> enabled and sent to an area on my nvme storage).

Better, it's down to 10 minutes on my machine now:

	real	10m39.218s
	user	10m37.742s
	sys	0m0.775s

thanks!

greg k-h