Call expand_symbol() between (2) and (3) to restore the original symbol
names. This requires just one expand_symbol() call for each symbol.
Call cleanup_symbol_name() between (7) and (8) instead of during sorting.
It is allowed to overwrite the ->sym field because (8) just outputs the
index instead of the name of each symbol. Again, this requires just one
cleanup_symbol_name() call for each symbol.
This refactoring makes it ~30% faster.
[Before]
$ time scripts/kallsyms --all-symbols --absolute-percpu --base-relative \
.tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms >/dev/null
real 0m1.027s
user 0m1.010s
sys 0m0.016s
[After]
$ time scripts/kallsyms --all-symbols --absolute-percpu --base-relative \
.tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms >/dev/null