From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/7] trace: make filter_parse_regex() provide the length of substring to compare with
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 22:46:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150205224632.GW29656@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150205170743.3c34178f@gandalf.local.home>
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 05:07:43PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:44:24 +0000
> Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> > The point is that by now this strlen() is the only thing for which we
> > NUL-termination of the substring; moving it inside the filter_parse_regex()
> > is an obviously equivalent transformation and it leaves that one strlen() call
> > inside filter_parse_regex() the only place where we still care about NUL.
> >
> > The next commit kills it off completely, at which point we are done with
> > modifying the string at all.
>
> Thanks for the explanation,
>
> Can you add that to the change log. I like to think patches can stand
> on their own, and if they are added to help another patch, it should be
> stated in the change log so someone doing a git blame followed by a git
> show, knows what is going on.
Done and force-pushed. Do you want me to repost the whole thing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-05 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-05 19:49 [RFC][PATCHES] constifying ftrace globs Al Viro
2015-02-05 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/7] trace: fix the glob match in __unregister_ftrace_function_probe() Al Viro
2015-02-05 20:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-05 22:30 ` Al Viro
2015-02-05 22:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-05 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/7] implement memmem() Al Viro
2015-02-05 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/7] trace_events_filter.c: switch to memcmp() and memmem() for matching Al Viro
2015-02-05 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/7] ftrace: switch matching to memcmp() and memmem() Al Viro
2015-02-05 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/7] trace: make filter_parse_regex() provide the length of substring to compare with Al Viro
2015-02-05 21:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-05 21:44 ` Al Viro
2015-02-05 22:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-05 22:46 ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-02-06 4:00 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 1/7] trace: fix the glob match in __unregister_ftrace_function_probe() Al Viro
2015-02-06 4:00 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 2/7] implement memmem() Al Viro
2015-02-06 16:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-06 22:30 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-02-06 22:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-06 23:14 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-02-06 4:00 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 3/7] trace_events_filter.c: switch to memcmp() and memmem() for matching Al Viro
2015-02-06 16:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-06 4:00 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 4/7] ftrace: switch matching to memcmp() and memmem() Al Viro
2015-02-06 4:00 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 5/7] trace: make filter_parse_regex() provide the length of substring to compare with Al Viro
2015-02-06 18:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-06 4:00 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 6/7] trace: constify filter_parse_regex(), match_records(), ftrace_match() and ftrace_match_record() Al Viro
2015-02-06 18:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-06 4:00 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] trace: constify glob arguments all way up to ftrace_function_set_regexp() Al Viro
2015-02-05 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/7] trace: constify filter_parse_regex(), match_records(), ftrace_match() and ftrace_match_record() Al Viro
2015-02-05 21:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-05 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] trace: constify glob arguments all way up to ftrace_function_set_regexp() Al Viro
2020-01-24 23:45 ` [RFC][PATCHES] constifying ftrace globs Steven Rostedt
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