Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 25/24] symbols/xsplice: Implement fast symbol names -> virtual addresses lookup

2016-04-12 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:03:12PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 04:59:02PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > The current mechanism is geared towards fast virtual address -> > > symbol names lookup. This is fine for the normal use cases > > (BUG_ON, WARN_ON, et

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 25/24] symbols/xsplice: Implement fast symbol names -> virtual addresses lookup

2016-04-12 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 04:59:02PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > The current mechanism is geared towards fast virtual address -> > symbol names lookup. This is fine for the normal use cases > (BUG_ON, WARN_ON, etc), but for xSplice - where we need to find > hypervisor symbols - it is slow.

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 25/24] symbols/xsplice: Implement fast symbol names -> virtual addresses lookup

2016-04-12 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
The current mechanism is geared towards fast virtual address -> symbol names lookup. This is fine for the normal use cases (BUG_ON, WARN_ON, etc), but for xSplice - where we need to find hypervisor symbols - it is slow. To understand this patch, a description of the existing method is explained fi