Re: [PATCH 7/8] ACPI: property: Skip MIPI property table without "mipi-img" prefix

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On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:11:27PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:58:52AM +0000, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 06:09:25PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 03:51:33PM +0000, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 05:29:54PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 02:22:43PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > > > +	if (memcmp(elements[0].string.pointer, MIPI_IMG_PREFIX,
> > > > > > +		   sizeof(MIPI_IMG_PREFIX) - 1))
> > > > > 
> > > > > str_has_prefix()
> > > > 
> > > > str_has_prefix() calls strlen() on prefix on every call. sizeof() will
> > > > generate much less code --- it's just a number.
> > > 
> > > Have you tried that? Because the strlen() over const string literals will be
> > > optimized away on compilation time.
> > 
> > Actually not. There seem to be an implementation of strlen() in
> > include/linux/fortify-string.h that would seem to be capable of doing that.
> > However its use is conditional to kernel configuration.
> 
> Ah, you missed probably the ability of the complier to find constant literals
> and replace the strlen() with plain number.

It seems GCC does this if -foptimize-strlen (included in -O2) is given.
Fair enough, I'll replace it with str_has_prefix() for v2.

-- 
Sakari Ailus



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