From 44032e631691adf1f406843d5e54deb795973ff7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:59:05 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] module: reduce stack usage for each_symbol() And now that I'm looking at that call-chain (to see if it would make sense to use some other more specific lock - doesn't look like it: all the readers are using RCU and this is the only writer), I also give you this trivial one-liner. It changes each_symbol() to not put that constant array on the stack, resulting in changing movq $C.388.31095, %rsi #, tmp85 subq $376, %rsp #, movq %rdi, %rbx # fn, fn leaq -208(%rbp), %rdi #, tmp84 movq %rbx, %rdx # fn, rep movsl xorl %esi, %esi # leaq -208(%rbp), %rdi #, tmp87 movq %r12, %rcx # data, call each_symbol_in_section.clone.0 # into xorl %esi, %esi # subq $216, %rsp #, movq %rdi, %rbx # fn, fn movq $arr.31078, %rdi #, call each_symbol_in_section.clone.0 # which is not so much about being obviously shorter and simpler because we don't unnecessarily copy that constant array around onto the stack, but also about having a much smaller stack footprint (376 vs 216 bytes - see the update of 'rsp'). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/module.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index b536db804ca0..79545bda358a 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ bool each_symbol(bool (*fn)(const struct symsearch *arr, struct module *owner, unsigned int symnum, void *data), void *data) { struct module *mod; - const struct symsearch arr[] = { + static const struct symsearch arr[] = { { __start___ksymtab, __stop___ksymtab, __start___kcrctab, NOT_GPL_ONLY, false }, { __start___ksymtab_gpl, __stop___ksymtab_gpl,