ftrace: Use kallsyms binary search for single-symbol lookup
When ftrace_lookup_symbols() is called with a single symbol (cnt == 1),
use kallsyms_lookup_name() for O(log N) binary search instead of the
full linear scan via kallsyms_on_each_symbol().
ftrace_lookup_symbols() was designed for batch resolution of many
symbols in a single pass. For large cnt this is efficient: a single
O(N) walk over all symbols with O(log cnt) binary search into the
sorted input array. But for cnt == 1 it still decompresses all ~200K
kernel symbols only to match one.
kallsyms_lookup_name() uses the sorted kallsyms index and needs only
~17 decompressions for a single lookup.
This is the common path for kprobe.session with exact function names,
where libbpf sends one symbol per BPF_LINK_CREATE syscall.
If binary lookup fails (duplicate symbol names where the first match
is not ftrace-instrumented), the function falls through to the existing
linear scan path.
Before (cnt=1, 50 kprobe.session programs):
Attach: 858 ms (kallsyms_expand_symbol 25% of CPU)
After:
Attach: 52 ms (16x faster)
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302200837.317907-3-andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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