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| author | Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> | 2015-11-06 16:31:20 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -0800 |
| commit | 0a9df786a6ae2f898114bdd242b64920dedf53bd (patch) | |
| tree | 2c693d2a4038f96f03f2d44dfafc6180d457affb /include | |
| parent | 2cf12f821cd4f996bfabeec23d8f25e7a2052a28 (diff) | |
lib/kasprintf.c: introduce kvasprintf_const
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>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
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 *, ...); |