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perf reports that 99.63% of the cycles from `modprobe amdgpu` are spent
inside module_frob_arch_sections(). This is because amdgpu.ko contains
about 300000 relocations in its .rela.text section, and the algorithm in
count_max_entries() takes quadratic time.
Apply two optimizations from the arm64 code, which together reduce the
total execution time by 99.58%. First, sort the relocations so duplicate
entries are adjacent. Second, reduce the number of relocations that must
be sorted by filtering to only relocations that need PLT/GOT entries, as
done in commit d4e0340919 ("arm64/module: Optimize module load time by
optimizing PLT counting").
Unlike the arm64 code, here the filtering and sorting is done in a
scratch buffer, because the HI20 relocation search optimization in
apply_relocate_add() depends on the original order of the relocations.
This allows accumulating PLT/GOT relocations across sections so sorting
and counting is only done once per module.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409171526.862481-3-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.