[RFC PATCH 4/6] seq_file: add function to write binary data

From: Peter Oberparleiter
Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 11:26:44 EST


From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx>

seq_write() can be used to construct seq_files containing arbitrary
data. Required by the gcov-profiling interface to synthesize binary
profiling data files.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/seq_file.c | 12 ++++++++++++
include/linux/seq_file.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.26-rc1/fs/seq_file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc1.orig/fs/seq_file.c
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc1/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -554,6 +554,18 @@ int seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const c
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_puts);

+int seq_write(struct seq_file *m, const void *s, size_t len)
+{
+ if (m->count + len < m->size) {
+ memcpy(m->buf + m->count, s, len);
+ m->count += len;
+ return 0;
+ }
+ m->count = m->size;
+ return -1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_write);
+
struct list_head *seq_list_start(struct list_head *head, loff_t pos)
{
struct list_head *lh;
Index: linux-2.6.26-rc1/include/linux/seq_file.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc1.orig/include/linux/seq_file.h
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc1/include/linux/seq_file.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ int seq_release(struct inode *, struct f
int seq_escape(struct seq_file *, const char *, const char *);
int seq_putc(struct seq_file *m, char c);
int seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const char *s);
+int seq_write(struct seq_file *m, const void *s, size_t len);

int seq_printf(struct seq_file *, const char *, ...)
__attribute__ ((format (printf,2,3)));


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