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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2012-09-10 18:50:17 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-09-11 12:04:41 -0300
commitb232e0732b1d763834c3d5b098d25d59337ba075 (patch)
tree8efb458e33231aa64779c0bfa5bf34dbf7f0d819 /tools/perf/util
parentbdde37163e1fd474509aab90f5eaacee46100107 (diff)
perf tools: Add memdup function
Adding memdup function to duplicate region of memory. void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len) Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347295819-23177-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/string.c18
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h
index 3b2f5900276f..6f19c548ecc0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
#include <string.h>
+
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/string.c b/tools/perf/util/string.c
index 199bc4d8905d..32170590892d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/string.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/string.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
#include "util.h"
-#include "string.h"
+#include "linux/string.h"
#define K 1024LL
/*
@@ -335,3 +335,19 @@ char *rtrim(char *s)
return s;
}
+
+/**
+ * memdup - duplicate region of memory
+ * @src: memory region to duplicate
+ * @len: memory region length
+ */
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
+{
+ void *p;
+
+ p = malloc(len);
+ if (p)
+ memcpy(p, src, len);
+
+ return p;
+}