[GIT PULL] ARM: module PLT optimizations

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 12 September 2016 at 15:37, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 03:35:53PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On 30 August 2016 at 17:57, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
>> > Hello Russell,
>> >
>> > The following changes since commit 3eab887a55424fc2c27553b7bfe32330df83f7b8:
>> >
>> >   Linux 4.8-rc4 (2016-08-28 15:04:33 -0700)
>> >
>> > are available in the git repository at:
>> >
>> >   git://git.linaro.org/people/ard.biesheuvel/linux-arm.git \
>> >                                           tags/arm-plt-optimizations-for-v4.9
>> >
>> > for you to fetch changes up to 66e94ba3c8ea5ff5f1443a50441f953ef44010b1:
>> >
>> >   ARM: kernel: avoid brute force search on PLT generation
>> >                                           (2016-08-30 17:45:34 +0100)
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> > This series of 4 patches optimizes the ARM PLT generation code that
>> > is invoked at module load time, to get rid of the O(n^2) algorithm
>> > that results in pathological load times of 10 seconds or more for
>> > large modules on certain STB platforms
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Ard Biesheuvel (4):
>> >       ARM: kernel: merge core and init PLTs
>> >       ARM: kernel: allocate PLT entries only for external symbols
>> >       ARM: kernel: sort relocation sections before allocating PLTs
>> >       ARM: kernel: avoid brute force search on PLT generation
>> >
>> >  arch/arm/include/asm/module.h |   6 +-
>> >  arch/arm/kernel/module-plts.c | 243 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>> >  arch/arm/kernel/module.lds    |   3 +-
>> >  3 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)
>> >
>>
>> Ping?
>
> It's been pulled, been through testing and I'm going to be pushing it
> out into -next soon.
>

OK, thanks.