linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 01/14] lib/string: extract generic strlen() into __generic

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Message-Id: <20260113082748.250916-2-jiangfeng@kylinos.cn>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:27:35 +0800
From: Feng Jiang <jiangfeng@...inos.cn>
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Subject: [PATCH v2 01/14] lib/string: extract generic strlen() into __generic_strlen()

To support performance benchmarking in KUnit tests, extract the
generic C implementation of strlen() into a standalone function
__generic_strlen(). This allows tests to compare architecture-optimized
versions against the generic baseline without duplicating code.

Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Feng Jiang <jiangfeng@...inos.cn>
---
 include/linux/string.h |  1 +
 lib/string.c           | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 1b564c36d721..961645633b4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ extern char * strstr(const char *, const char *);
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNSTR
 extern char * strnstr(const char *, const char *, size_t);
 #endif
+extern __kernel_size_t __generic_strlen(const char *);
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
 extern __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *);
 #endif
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index b632c71df1a5..047ecb38e09b 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -412,8 +412,7 @@ char *strnchr(const char *s, size_t count, int c)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchr);
 #endif
 
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
-size_t strlen(const char *s)
+size_t __generic_strlen(const char *s)
 {
 	const char *sc;
 
@@ -421,6 +420,13 @@ size_t strlen(const char *s)
 		/* nothing */;
 	return sc - s;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__generic_strlen);
+
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
+size_t strlen(const char *s)
+{
+	return __generic_strlen(s);
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlen);
 #endif
 
-- 
2.25.1