linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm v2] coredump: extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped files

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Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:36:05 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>,
	"Jonathan M. Foote" <jmfoote@...t.org>,
	Pedro Alves <palves@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm v2] coredump: extend core dump note section to
	contain file names of mapped files

On 09/18, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 09/18, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >
> > It's doubtful that rolling your own single loop actually performs better
> > than just calling strlen and memcpy.

Ah, I misread your message, sorry...

> This is needed to advance 'name' if d_path() fails with !ENAMETOOLONG.
> Probably needs a comment.
>
> Or perhaps 'filename = ""' case can handle this case itself. In this
> case we do not even need strlen(), remaining = name - filename.

Yes, but you strlen + memcpy as you suggested will work too.

Oleg.

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