Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Rasmus Villemoes <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/2] lib: introduce kvasprintf_const | Date | Wed, 9 Sep 2015 23:45:51 +0200 |
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This adds kvasprintf_const which tries to use kstrdup_const if possible: If the format string contains no % characters, or if the format string is exactly "%s", we delegate to kstrdup_const. Otherwise, we fall back to kvasprintf.
Just as for kstrdup_const, the main motivation is to save memory by reusing .rodata when possible.
The return value should be freed by kfree_const, just like for kstrdup_const.
There is deliberately no kasprintf_const: In the vast majority of cases, the format string argument is a literal, so one can determine statically whether one could instead use kstrdup_const directly (which would also require one to change all corresponding kfree calls to kfree_const).
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> --- include/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++ lib/kasprintf.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 5582410727cb..2c13f747ac2e 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -413,6 +413,8 @@ extern __printf(2, 3) char *kasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...); extern __printf(2, 0) char *kvasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, va_list args); +extern __printf(2, 0) +const char *kvasprintf_const(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, va_list args); extern __scanf(2, 3) int sscanf(const char *, const char *, ...); diff --git a/lib/kasprintf.c b/lib/kasprintf.c index 32f12150fc4f..f194e6e593e1 100644 --- a/lib/kasprintf.c +++ b/lib/kasprintf.c @@ -31,6 +31,22 @@ char *kvasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, va_list ap) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvasprintf); +/* + * If fmt contains no % (or is exactly %s), use kstrdup_const. If fmt + * (or the sole vararg) points to rodata, we will then save a memory + * allocation and string copy. In any case, the return value should be + * freed using kfree_const(). + */ +const char *kvasprintf_const(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, va_list ap) +{ + if (!strchr(fmt, '%')) + return kstrdup_const(fmt, gfp); + if (!strcmp(fmt, "%s")) + return kstrdup_const(va_arg(ap, const char*), gfp); + return kvasprintf(gfp, fmt, ap); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvasprintf_const); + char *kasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...) { va_list ap; -- 2.1.3
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