perf tools: Add memdup function

Adding memdup function to duplicate region of memory.

  void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h
index 3b2f5900276f0ef72b52e5a9c5c5f3d8a3176612..6f19c548ecc0bc96680a6a529ee844b829578396 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 #include <string.h>
+
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len);

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/string.c b/tools/perf/util/string.c
index 199bc4d8905d4ff75d31a60471673fac68470aec..32170590892d1f7f72a4e0629764f0806a0e5c62 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/string.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/string.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #include "util.h"
-#include "string.h"
+#include "linux/string.h"
 
 #define K 1024LL
 /*
@@ -335,3 +335,19 @@ char *rtrim(char *s)
 
        return s;
 }
+
+/**
+ * memdup - duplicate region of memory
+ * @src: memory region to duplicate
+ * @len: memory region length
+ */
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
+{
+       void *p;
+
+       p = malloc(len);
+       if (p)
+               memcpy(p, src, len);
+
+       return p;
+}