From: Chaitanya S Prakash <ChaitanyaS.Prakash@arm.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, anshuman.khandual@arm.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf tools: Only treat files as map files when they have the extension .map
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:40:02 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0fa391c6-fd9e-42fe-b535-17e7725280e5@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZdYPf3wMl35VemsL@x1>
I'll make the changes, thanks for the review.
On 2/21/24 20:28, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 06:40:47AM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 8:30 PM Chaitanya S Prakash <ChaitanyaS.Prakash@arm.com> wrote:
>>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/string2.h
>>> @@ -40,5 +40,6 @@ char *strdup_esc(const char *str);
>>>
>>> unsigned int hex(char c);
>>> char *strreplace_chars(char needle, const char *haystack, const char *replace);
>>> +const char *ends_with(const char *str, const char *suffix);
>> nit: string2.h is an extension of linux's string.h. The tools copy of
>> that is missing functions in the kernel version:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools-next.git/tree/tools/include/linux/string.h?h=perf-tools-next
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools-next.git/tree/include/linux/string.h?h=perf-tools-next#n398
>> specifically str_has_prefix.
>>
>> The naming ends_with makes sense but there is also strstarts and
>> str_has_prefix, perhaps str_has_suffix would be the most consistent
>> and intention revealing name?
>>
>> Also, we have strtailcmp which behaves like a reverse strcmp that
>> doesn't compare the lengths of the strings. It seems all uses of
>> strtailcmp are just for a "str_has_suffix". It would make sense to me
>> to remove that function and switch to a common str_has_suffix function
>> which I think is a more intention revealing way of naming what the
>> code is doing.
> So far in perf we try to just reuse whatever function the kernel has for
> the purpose at hand, right now the kernel has:
>
> /**
> * strstarts - does @str start with @prefix?
> * @str: string to examine
> * @prefix: prefix to look for.
> */
> static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char *prefix)
> {
> return strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix)) == 0;
> }
>
> And:
>
> /**
> * str_has_prefix - Test if a string has a given prefix
> * @str: The string to test
> * @prefix: The string to see if @str starts with
> *
> * A common way to test a prefix of a string is to do:
> * strncmp(str, prefix, sizeof(prefix) - 1)
> *
> * But this can lead to bugs due to typos, or if prefix is a pointer
> * and not a constant. Instead use str_has_prefix().
> *
> * Returns:
> * * strlen(@prefix) if @str starts with @prefix
> * * 0 if @str does not start with @prefix
> */
> static __always_inline size_t str_has_prefix(const char *str, const char *prefix)
> {
> size_t len = strlen(prefix);
> return strncmp(str, prefix, len) == 0 ? len : 0;
> }
>
> The later seems to give more bang for the buck, so to say, returning the
> prefix lenght.
>
> It is a new addition:
>
> 72921427d46bf9731 (Steven Rostedt (VMware) 2018-12-21 18:10:14 -0500 398) static __always_inline size_t str_has_prefix(const char *str, const char *prefix)
>
> While:
>
> 66f92cf9d415e96a5 (Rusty Russell 2009-03-31 13:05:36 -0600 249) * strstarts - does @str start with @prefix?
>
> ⬢[acme@toolbox linux]$ git grep str_has_prefix| wc -l
> 94
> ⬢[acme@toolbox linux]$ git grep strstarts| wc -l
> 177
> ⬢[acme@toolbox linux]$
>
> Some places use it:
>
> kernel/printk/printk.c: len = str_has_prefix(str, "on");
> kernel/printk/printk.c: len = str_has_prefix(str, "off");
> kernel/printk/printk.c: len = str_has_prefix(str, "ratelimit");
>
>
> static int __control_devkmsg(char *str)
> {
> size_t len;
>
> if (!str)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> len = str_has_prefix(str, "on");
> if (len) {
> devkmsg_log = DEVKMSG_LOG_MASK_ON;
> return len;
> }
>
> len = str_has_prefix(str, "off");
> if (len) {
> devkmsg_log = DEVKMSG_LOG_MASK_OFF;
> return len;
> }
>
> len = str_has_prefix(str, "ratelimit");
> if (len) {
> devkmsg_log = DEVKMSG_LOG_MASK_DEFAULT;
> return len;
> }
>
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
>
> err = __control_devkmsg(devkmsg_log_str);
>
> /*
> * Do not accept an unknown string OR a known string with
> * trailing crap...
> */
> if (err < 0 || (err + 1 != *lenp)) {
>
> /* ... and restore old setting. */
> devkmsg_log = old;
> strncpy(devkmsg_log_str, old_str, DEVKMSG_STR_MAX_SIZE);
>
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
>
> So yeah, I agree with Ian that it is more intention revealing, has this
> bonus of returning the strlen for the above use cases, is in the kernel
> sources, so I'm in favour of grabbing a copy of it and replacing the
> strstarts() usage with it, drop strstarts(), then also introduce
> str_has_suffix(), the kernel will get it when it needs, possibly from
> tools/lib/ :-)
>
> - Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-23 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-20 4:29 [PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Fix test "perf probe of function from different CU" Chaitanya S Prakash
2024-02-20 10:16 ` James Clark
[not found] ` <20240220042957.2022391-3-ChaitanyaS.Prakash@arm.com>
[not found] ` <CAP-5=fUFmeoTjLuZTgcaV23iGQU1AdddG+7Rw=d6buMU007+1Q@mail.gmail.com>
2024-02-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf tools: Only treat files as map files when they have the extension .map Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-02-23 12:10 ` Chaitanya S Prakash [this message]
2024-03-15 20:34 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-03-19 2:26 ` Chaitanya S Prakash
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