scripts/sorttable: Implement build-time ORC unwind table sorting

The ORC unwinder has two tables: .orc_unwind_ip and .orc_unwind, which
need to be sorted for binary search. Previously this sorting was done
during bootup.

Sort them at build time to speed up booting.

Add the ORC tables sorting in a parallel build process to speed up the build.

[ mingo: Rewrote the changelog and fixed some comments. ]

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191204004633.88660-7-shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Shile Zhang
2019-12-04 08:46:32 +08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 1091670637
commit 57fa189942
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/*
* sorttable.c: Sort the kernel's table
*
* Added ORC unwind tables sort support and other updates:
* Copyright (C) 1999-2019 Alibaba Group Holding Limited. by:
* Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
*
* Copyright 2011 - 2012 Cavium, Inc.
*
* Based on code taken from recortmcount.c which is:
@@ -9,7 +13,7 @@
* Copyright 2009 John F. Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>. All rights reserved.
*
* Restructured to fit Linux format, as well as other updates:
* Copyright 2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>, Red Hat Inc.
* Copyright 2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>, Red Hat Inc.
*/
/*