tracing: Add a seq_buf_clear() helper and clear len and readpos in init
Add a helper function seq_buf_clear() that resets the len and readpos
fields of a seq_buf. Currently it is only used in the seq_buf_init()
but will be used later when updating the seq_file code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141104160222.352309995@goodmis.org
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/seq_buf.h b/include/linux/seq_buf.h
index d14dc90..5d91262 100644
--- a/include/linux/seq_buf.h
+++ b/include/linux/seq_buf.h
@@ -22,13 +22,18 @@
loff_t readpos;
};
+static inline void seq_buf_clear(struct seq_buf *s)
+{
+ s->len = 0;
+ s->readpos = 0;
+}
+
static inline void
seq_buf_init(struct seq_buf *s, unsigned char *buf, unsigned int size)
{
s->buffer = buf;
s->size = size;
- s->len = 0;
- s->readpos = 0;
+ seq_buf_clear(s);
}
/*