tracing: concurrency aware strncpy

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

Hi Masami,
This might help you out...

/*
 * ltt_relay_do_strncpy - copy a string up to a certain number of bytes
 * @dest: destination
 * @src: source
 * @len: max. length to copy
 * @terminated: output string ends with \0 (output)
 *
 * returns the number of bytes copied. Does not finalize with \0 if len is
 * reached.
 */
static __inline__
size_t ltt_relay_do_strncpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t len,
                            int *terminated)
{
        size_t orig_len = len;

        *terminated = 0;
        /*
         * What we really want here is an __inline__ strncpy, but we
         * don't have constants, so gcc generally uses a function call.
         */
        for (; len > 0; len--) {
                *(u8 *)dest = ACCESS_ONCE(*(const u8 *)src);
                /* Check with dest, because src may be modified concurrently */
                if (*(const u8 *)dest == '\0') {
                        len--;
                        *terminated = 1;
                        break;
                }
                dest++;
                src++;
        }
        return orig_len - len;
}


-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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