Re: [PATCH] udevd: Avoid implicit memset in match_attr()

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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 16:51, Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> C initializers include an implicit "others => 0" (Ada syntax).
> Initializing a char array to "" is equivalent to a memset()
> call - which is exactly what it gets compiled to.
>
> Fixing this one callsite reduced memset() _user_ cpu cycles
> from 2-4% to 0.05% on the EeePC.
>
> There are other occurences, but the fix isn't that pretty
> so I left them alone.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/udev/udev-rules.c b/udev/udev-rules.c
> index 45806c3..ad2b00f 100644
> --- a/udev/udev-rules.c
> +++ b/udev/udev-rules.c
> @@ -1559,10 +1559,11 @@ static int match_attr(struct udev_rules *rules, struct udev_device *dev, struct
>        char attr[UTIL_PATH_SIZE];
>        const char *key_name = &rules->buf[cur->key.attr_off];
>        const char *key_value = &rules->buf[cur->key.value_off];
> -       char value[UTIL_NAME_SIZE] = "";
> +       char value[UTIL_NAME_SIZE];
>        size_t len;
>
>        util_strlcpy(attr, key_name, sizeof(attr));
> +       util_strlcpy(value, "", sizeof(value));

Wouldn't value[0] = '\0' be even faster? :)

Kay
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