linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/9] frv: gdb-stub.c use the common ascii hex helpers

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Date:	Thu, 01 May 2008 19:14:21 -0700
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] frv: gdb-stub.c use the common ascii hex helpers

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 03:09 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> >  arch/frv/kernel/gdb-stub.c |  163 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> >  1 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
> 
> Can you send me the base patch this is built on?  These functions you're using
> don't seem to be upstream.
> 
> David

They get introduced in 1/9:

Subject: [PATCH 1/9] lib: add ascii hex helper functions

Everyone rolls their own version around the tree, centralize
in lib/hexdump.c

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
---
 include/linux/kernel.h |    6 +++++-
 lib/hexdump.c          |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 4d46e29..20cae9a 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -276,7 +276,11 @@ extern void print_hex_dump(const char *level, const char *prefix_str,
 				const void *buf, size_t len, bool ascii);
 extern void print_hex_dump_bytes(const char *prefix_str, int prefix_type,
 			const void *buf, size_t len);
-#define hex_asc(x)	"0123456789abcdef"[x]
+
+extern const char hex_asc[];
+extern int hex_to_int(char c);
+#define hex_asc_lo(x)	hex_asc[((x) & 0x0f)]
+#define hex_asc_hi(x)	hex_asc[((x) & 0xf0) >> 4]
 
 #define pr_emerg(fmt, arg...) \
 	printk(KERN_EMERG fmt, ##arg)
diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c
index 3435465..fa1a76e 100644
--- a/lib/hexdump.c
+++ b/lib/hexdump.c
@@ -12,6 +12,27 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 
+const char hex_asc[] = "0123456789abcdef";
+
+/**
+ * hex_to_int - convert a single hex ASCII char to an integer value
+ * @ch: char to convert, not case sensitive [a-f][A-F][0-9]
+ *
+ * Returns -1 if the char is not a valid hexadecimal character
+ */
+int hex_to_int(char ch)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Make ch lower-case, works only for digits and letters
+	 */
+	ch |= 0x20;
+	if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'f')
+		return ch - 'a' + 10;
+	if (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9')
+		return ch - '0';
+	return -1;
+}
+
 /**
  * hex_dump_to_buffer - convert a blob of data to "hex ASCII" in memory
  * @buf: data blob to dump
@@ -93,8 +114,8 @@ void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len, int rowsize,
 		for (j = 0; (j < rowsize) && (j < len) && (lx + 4) < linebuflen;
 		     j++) {
 			ch = ptr[j];
-			linebuf[lx++] = hex_asc(ch >> 4);
-			linebuf[lx++] = hex_asc(ch & 0x0f);
+			linebuf[lx++] = hex_asc_hi(ch);
+			linebuf[lx++] = hex_asc_lo(ch);
 			linebuf[lx++] = ' ';
 		}
 		ascii_column = 3 * rowsize + 2;
-- 
1.5.5.1.305.g7c84


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