Using 2048 as buffer sizer for strbuf is a bit exaggerated. strbuf is
used much more when we are not using mmapped indexes, but it's used for
mmapped when for example searching for an alias. A quick and dirty hack
to output the size of our strbufs is to print buf->used inside
strbuf_str(). Doing this and creating some statistics with:
while read xxx alias xxx; do
tools/modprobe -R "$alias" > /dev/null;
done < /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias 2>&1 | \
Rscript -e 'summary (as.numeric (readLines ("stdin")))'
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's
1.00 29.00 31.00 31.55 38.00 92.00 26
So, reduce the step to 128, which is still greater than the maximum in
these cases. In the worst case this can only create a few calls to
realloc(), while keeping the memory footprint low for the common cases.
Move underscores() to shared/. It's the same as alias_normalize(), but
it rather operates in place, with the same string being passed.
The difference now that it's in shared/ is that it's a non-logging
function.
This makes us a little bit more verbose: we don't accept partially
correct module and aliases names in kcmdline and in configuration files.
We log an error instead.
Lucas De Marchi