tools lib api fs: Add helper to read string from procfs file

To read things like /proc/self/comm.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ztpkbmseidt0hq2psr46o0h9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c b/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c
index ef78c22ff44d..08556cf2c70d 100644
--- a/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c
+++ b/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c
@@ -351,6 +351,19 @@ int filename__read_str(const char *filename, char **buf, size_t *sizep)
         return err;
 }
 
+int procfs__read_str(const char *entry, char **buf, size_t *sizep)
+{
+        char path[PATH_MAX];
+        const char *procfs = procfs__mountpoint();
+
+        if (!procfs)
+                return -1;
+
+        snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/%s", procfs, entry);
+
+        return filename__read_str(path, buf, sizep);
+}
+
 int sysfs__read_ull(const char *entry, unsigned long long *value)
 {
         char path[PATH_MAX];
diff --git a/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.h b/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.h
index 9f6598098dc5..16c9c2ed7c5b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.h
+++ b/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.h
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ int filename__read_int(const char *filename, int *value);
 int filename__read_ull(const char *filename, unsigned long long *value);
 int filename__read_str(const char *filename, char **buf, size_t *sizep);
 
+int procfs__read_str(const char *entry, char **buf, size_t *sizep);
+
 int sysctl__read_int(const char *sysctl, int *value);
 int sysfs__read_int(const char *entry, int *value);
 int sysfs__read_ull(const char *entry, unsigned long long *value);