perf tools: Improve startup time by reducing unnecessary stat() calls
When testing perf trace on NixOS, I noticed significant startup delays: - `ls`: ~2ms - `strace ls`: ~10ms - `perf trace ls`: ~550ms Profiling showed that 51% of the time is spent reading files, 26% in loading BPF programs, and 11% in `newfstatat`. This patch optimizes module path exploration by avoiding `stat()` calls unless necessary. For filesystems that do not implement `d_type` (DT_UNKNOWN), it falls back to the old behavior. See `readdir(3)` for details. This reduces `perf trace ls` time to ~500ms. A more thorough startup optimization based on command parameters would be ideal, but that is a larger effort. Signed-off-by:Krzysztof Łopatowski <krzysztof.m.lopatowski@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206113314.335376-2-krzysztof.m.lopatowski@gmail.com Signed-off-by:
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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