Re: [PATCH] Updated, add get_range, allows a hyhpenated range to get_options

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

Derek Fults wrote:
> This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers M-N, in the string
> passed to command line helper function, get_options.  This will expand
> the range and insert the values[M, M+1, ..., N] into the ints array in
> get_options.
> 
> Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a
> list of cpus.  
> Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
> This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a
> large system.  Valid values of <cpu_number>  include all cpus, 0 to
> "number of CPUs in system - 1".
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com>  
> 
> Index: linux/lib/cmdline.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/lib/cmdline.c	2006-09-19 22:42:06.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux/lib/cmdline.c	2006-11-01 12:36:20.059166727 -0600
> @@ -16,6 +16,23 @@
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
>  #include <linux/string.h>
>  
> +/**
> + *	If a hyphen was found in get_option, this will handle the
> + *	range of numbers, M-N.  This will expand the range and insert
> + *	the values[M, M+1, ..., N] into the ints array in get_options.
> + */

Derek,
Thanks for persisting thru this.  It's all fine for me except the
comment block above.  If a comment block begins with "/**", then
it's supposed to be in kernel-doc format (see
Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt), with function name &
parameters (if applicable).  However, that mostly needs to be done
for non-static functions, so probably just change /** to /*
and leave the rest of the comment block as is.
My other comment-block comment was also about kernel long-comment
style, which is
/*
 * begin
 * more
 * end
 */
so now you have achieved that also, so thanks again.

> +static int get_range(char **str, int *pint)
> +{
> +	int x, inc_counter, upper_range;
> +
> +	(*str)++;
> +	upper_range = simple_strtol((*str), NULL, 0);
> +	inc_counter = upper_range - *pint;
> +	for (x = *pint; x < upper_range; x++)
> +		*pint++ = x;
> +	return inc_counter;
> +}
>  
>  /**
>   *	get_option - Parse integer from an option string
> @@ -29,6 +46,7 @@
>   *	0 : no int in string
>   *	1 : int found, no subsequent comma
>   *	2 : int found including a subsequent comma
> + *	3 : hyphen found to denote a range
>   */
>  
>  int get_option (char **str, int *pint)
> @@ -44,6 +62,8 @@
>  		(*str)++;
>  		return 2;
>  	}
> +	if (**str == '-')
> +		return 3;
>  
>  	return 1;
>  }
> @@ -55,7 +75,8 @@
>   *	@ints: integer array
>   *
>   *	This function parses a string containing a comma-separated
> - *	list of integers.  The parse halts when the array is
> + *	list of integers, a hyphen-separated range of _positive_ integers,
> + *	or a combination of both.  The parse halts when the array is
>   *	full, or when no more numbers can be retrieved from the
>   *	string.
>   *
> @@ -72,6 +93,16 @@
>  		res = get_option ((char **)&str, ints + i);
>  		if (res == 0)
>  			break;
> +		if (res == 3) {
> +			int range_nums;
> +			range_nums = get_range((char **)&str, ints + i);
> +			if (range_nums < 0)
> +				break;
> +			/* Decrement the result by one to leave out the
> +			   last number in the range.  The next iteration
> +			   will handle the upper number in the range */
> +			i += (range_nums - 1);
> +		}
>  		i++;
>  		if (res == 1)
>  			break;


-- 
~Randy