linux-kernel - [PATCH 06/13] proc: convert /proc/self to _print

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Date:   Tue, 28 Aug 2018 02:14:56 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 06/13] proc: convert /proc/self to _print_integer()

Benchmark readlink("/proc/self") 2^23 times:

	8.205992458 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.15% )
	7.535168869 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.09% )

	-8.2%

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---
 fs/proc/self.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/self.c b/fs/proc/self.c
index 127265e5c55f..b2279412237b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/self.c
+++ b/fs/proc/self.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ static const char *proc_self_get_link(struct dentry *dentry,
 {
 	struct pid_namespace *ns = proc_pid_ns(inode);
 	pid_t tgid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns);
+	char buf[10], *p = buf + sizeof(buf);
 	char *name;
 
 	if (!tgid)
@@ -22,7 +23,11 @@ static const char *proc_self_get_link(struct dentry *dentry,
 	name = kmalloc(10 + 1, dentry ? GFP_KERNEL : GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (unlikely(!name))
 		return dentry ? ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) : ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
-	sprintf(name, "%u", tgid);
+
+	p = _print_integer_u32(p, tgid);
+	memcpy(name, p, buf + sizeof(buf) - p);
+	name[buf + sizeof(buf) - p] = '\0';
+
 	set_delayed_call(done, kfree_link, name);
 	return name;
 }
-- 
2.16.4