From: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: how many memset(,0,) calls in kernel ?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 23:36:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c4a94df-fc2f-1bb2-8bce-2d71f9f1f5df@interlog.com> (raw)
Here is a pretty rough estimate:
$ find . -name '*.c' -exec fgrep "memset(" {} \; > memset_in_kern.txt
$ cat memset_in_kern.txt | wc -l
20159
Some of those are in comments, EXPORTs, etc, but the vast majority are
in code. Plus there will be memset()s in header files not counted by
that find. Checking in that output file I see:
$ grep ", 0," memset_in_kern.txt | wc -l
18107
$ grep ", 0" memset_in_kern.txt | wc -l
19349
$ grep ", 0x" memset_in_kern.txt | wc -l
1210
$ grep ", 0x01" memset_in_kern.txt | wc -l
3
$ grep ", 0x0," memset_in_kern.txt | wc -l
199
$ grep ",0," memset_in_kern.txt | wc -l
72
$ grep "= memset" memset_in_kern.txt | wc -l
11
It seems only 11 invocations use the return value of memset() .
If the BSD flavours of Unix had not given us:
void bzero(void *s, size_t n);
would the Linux kernel have something similar in common usage (e.g.
memzero() or mem0() ), that was less wasteful than the standard:
void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n);
in the extremely common case where c=0 and the return value is
not used?
Doug Gilbert
next reply other threads:[~2021-09-12 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-12 3:36 Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2021-09-12 4:56 ` how many memset(,0,) calls in kernel ? Willy Tarreau
2021-09-13 16:03 ` David Laight
2021-09-13 16:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-09-14 8:23 ` David Laight
2021-09-14 16:46 ` Willy Tarreau
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