From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
To: Feng Jiang <jiangfeng@kylinos.cn>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
pjw@kernel.org, palmer@dabbelt.com, aou@eecs.berkeley.edu,
alex@ghiti.fr, kees@kernel.org, andy@kernel.org,
ebiggers@kernel.org, martin.petersen@oracle.com, Jason@zx2c4.com,
conor.dooley@microchip.com, samuel.holland@sifive.com,
charlie@rivosinc.com, ajones@ventanamicro.com, nathan@kernel.org,
linus.walleij@linaro.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] lib/string_kunit: add test case for strnlen
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 12:42:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aV-KFRDNicUdta3i@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e02320c8-eff2-44af-a66c-a3c7ca9ca0ea@kylinos.cn>
On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 06:00:21PM +0800, Feng Jiang wrote:
> On 2026/1/8 15:26, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 02:53:58PM +0800, Feng Jiang wrote:
> >> On 2026/1/7 19:56, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 4:35 AM Feng Jiang <jiangfeng@kylinos.cn> wrote:
...
> >>>> Add a KUnit test for strnlen() to verify correctness across
> >>>> different string lengths and memory alignments.
> >>>
> >>> Same comment as per patch 1 (it would probably require to call for
> >>> arch_strnlen() or something like this).
> >>
> >> Thanks, makes sense.
> >>
> >> I'll add the performance benchmarking (random filling + timing) in V2.
> >>
> >> Since string functions are typically exported directly by each architecture
> >> without an arch_ prefix, I'll introduce a generic_strnlen() (based on
> >> lib/string.c) within the test for comparison.
> >
> > Probably you want to make the existing one to have that name and use it inside
> > the test and in the fallback wrapper. We don't want to have duplicate code, it
> > is bad from maintenance perspective.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions!
>
> To avoid code duplication, I'll rename the generic implementation in lib/string.c
> to __generic_strnlen() and keep the original strnlen() as a wrapper. Then I'll use
> the generic one in the KUnit test for comparison.
>
> Does this approach look good to you?
To me, yes. To others, we will know later on when you send a new version.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-08 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-07 2:35 [PATCH 0/5] riscv: optimize string functions and add kunit tests Feng Jiang
2026-01-07 2:35 ` [PATCH 1/5] lib/string_kunit: add test case for strlen Feng Jiang
2026-01-07 11:48 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-07 2:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] lib/string_kunit: add test case for strnlen Feng Jiang
2026-01-07 11:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-08 6:53 ` Feng Jiang
2026-01-08 7:26 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-08 10:00 ` Feng Jiang
2026-01-08 10:42 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2026-01-07 2:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] riscv: lib: add strnlen implementation Feng Jiang
2026-01-07 2:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] riscv: lib: add strchr implementation Feng Jiang
2026-01-07 2:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] riscv: lib: add strrchr implementation Feng Jiang
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