Currently we are repeatedly calling `uname -m`. This is causing the
script to take a long time to run (more than 10 seconds to parse
/proc/kallsyms). We can use Perl state variables to cache the result of
the first call to `uname -m`. With this change in place the script
scans the whole kernel in under a minute.
Cache machine architecture in state variable.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
sub is_ix86_32
{
- my $arch = `uname -m`;
+ state $arch = `uname -m`;
chomp $arch;
if ($arch =~ m/i[3456]86/) {
sub is_x86_64
{
- return is_arch('x86_64');
+ state $is = is_arch('x86_64');
+ return $is;
}
sub is_ppc64
{
- return is_arch('ppc64');
+ state $is = is_arch('ppc64');
+ return $is;
}
# Gets config option value from kernel config file.