mm: memcontrol: rein in the CONFIG space madness
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1 /*
2 * linux/tools/lib/string.c
4 * Copied from linux/lib/string.c, where it is:
6 * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
8 * More specifically, the first copied function was strtobool, which
9 * was introduced by:
11 * d0f1fed29e6e ("Add a strtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents")
12 * Author: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
15 #include <stdlib.h>
16 #include <string.h>
17 #include <errno.h>
18 #include <linux/string.h>
19 #include <linux/compiler.h>
21 /**
22 * memdup - duplicate region of memory
24 * @src: memory region to duplicate
25 * @len: memory region length
27 void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
29 void *p = malloc(len);
31 if (p)
32 memcpy(p, src, len);
34 return p;
37 /**
38 * strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
39 * @s: input string
40 * @res: result
42 * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0'.
43 * Otherwise it will return -EINVAL. Value pointed to by res is
44 * updated upon finding a match.
46 int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
48 switch (s[0]) {
49 case 'y':
50 case 'Y':
51 case '1':
52 *res = true;
53 break;
54 case 'n':
55 case 'N':
56 case '0':
57 *res = false;
58 break;
59 default:
60 return -EINVAL;
62 return 0;
65 /**
66 * strlcpy - Copy a C-string into a sized buffer
67 * @dest: Where to copy the string to
68 * @src: Where to copy the string from
69 * @size: size of destination buffer
71 * Compatible with *BSD: the result is always a valid
72 * NUL-terminated string that fits in the buffer (unless,
73 * of course, the buffer size is zero). It does not pad
74 * out the result like strncpy() does.
76 * If libc has strlcpy() then that version will override this
77 * implementation:
79 size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
81 size_t ret = strlen(src);
83 if (size) {
84 size_t len = (ret >= size) ? size - 1 : ret;
85 memcpy(dest, src, len);
86 dest[len] = '\0';
88 return ret;