From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:28 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~864^2~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3a642e99babe0617febb6f402e1e063479f489db;p=pandora-kernel.git

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:

	Various pieces of the kernel (lockdep, latencytop, etc) tend
	to store backtraces, sometimes at a relatively high
	frequency. In itself this isn't a big performance deal (after
	all you're using diagnostics features), but there have been
	some complaints from people who have over 100 modules loaded
	that this is a tad too slow.

	This is due to the new backtracer code which looks at every
	slot on the stack to see if it's a kernel/module text address,
	so that's 1024 slots.  1024 times 100 modules... that's a lot
	of list walking.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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