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-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ftrace.c22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 413310912609..7eac1472cc57 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -9267,6 +9267,15 @@ static int kallsyms_callback(void *data, const char *name, unsigned long addr)
* @addrs array, which needs to be big enough to store at least @cnt
* addresses.
*
+ * For a single symbol (cnt == 1), uses kallsyms_lookup_name() which
+ * performs an O(log N) binary search via the sorted kallsyms index.
+ * This avoids the full O(N) linear scan over all kernel symbols that
+ * the multi-symbol path requires.
+ *
+ * For multiple symbols, uses a single-pass linear scan via
+ * kallsyms_on_each_symbol() with binary search into the sorted input
+ * array.
+ *
* Returns: 0 if all provided symbols are found, -ESRCH otherwise.
*/
int ftrace_lookup_symbols(const char **sorted_syms, size_t cnt, unsigned long *addrs)
@@ -9274,6 +9283,19 @@ int ftrace_lookup_symbols(const char **sorted_syms, size_t cnt, unsigned long *a
struct kallsyms_data args;
int found_all;
+ /* Fast path: single symbol uses O(log N) binary search */
+ if (cnt == 1) {
+ addrs[0] = kallsyms_lookup_name(sorted_syms[0]);
+ if (addrs[0] && ftrace_location(addrs[0]))
+ return 0;
+ /*
+ * Binary lookup can fail for duplicate symbol names
+ * where the first match is not ftrace-instrumented.
+ * Retry with linear scan.
+ */
+ }
+
+ /* Batch path: single-pass O(N) linear scan */
memset(addrs, 0, sizeof(*addrs) * cnt);
args.addrs = addrs;
args.syms = sorted_syms;