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SubjectRe: how to look for source code in kernel
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:36:13PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> git-ls-files | xargs fgrep 'struct f2fs_inode'
>>
>> That returns instantly and tells me where to look. If you can do an
>> instant brute force search what is the point of an index?
>
> Not if you're using a lame-ass laptop with a rotating disk:
>
> $ time git ls-files | xargs grep -E 'struct mce\W*{'
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h:struct mce {
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c: if (!final || memcmp(m, final, sizeof(struct mce))) {
>
> real 2m48.415s
> user 0m2.388s
> sys 0m15.668s

That's the first run. Now everything is in the buffer cache (assumed you have
enough RAM), and try again...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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