[PATCH v2 01/14] lib/string: extract generic strlen() into __generic_strlen()
Feng Jiang
jiangfeng at kylinos.cn
Tue Jan 13 00:27:35 PST 2026
To support performance benchmarking in KUnit tests, extract the
generic C implementation of strlen() into a standalone function
__generic_strlen(). This allows tests to compare architecture-optimized
versions against the generic baseline without duplicating code.
Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Feng Jiang <jiangfeng at kylinos.cn>
---
include/linux/string.h | 1 +
lib/string.c | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 1b564c36d721..961645633b4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ extern char * strstr(const char *, const char *);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNSTR
extern char * strnstr(const char *, const char *, size_t);
#endif
+extern __kernel_size_t __generic_strlen(const char *);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
extern __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *);
#endif
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index b632c71df1a5..047ecb38e09b 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -412,8 +412,7 @@ char *strnchr(const char *s, size_t count, int c)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchr);
#endif
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
-size_t strlen(const char *s)
+size_t __generic_strlen(const char *s)
{
const char *sc;
@@ -421,6 +420,13 @@ size_t strlen(const char *s)
/* nothing */;
return sc - s;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__generic_strlen);
+
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
+size_t strlen(const char *s)
+{
+ return __generic_strlen(s);
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlen);
#endif
--
2.25.1
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