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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-10-22 23:57:26 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-10-23 00:11:07 -0400
commit057316cc6a5b521b332a1d7ccc871cd60c904c74 (patch)
tree4333e608da237c73ff69b10878025cca96dcb4c8 /lib/string_helpers.c
parent3e2dab9a1c2deb03c311eb3f83466009147ed4d3 (diff)
parent2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into test
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c drivers/acpi/Kconfig drivers/pnp/Makefile drivers/pnp/quirks.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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1/*
2 * Helpers for formatting and printing strings
3 *
4 * Copyright 31 August 2008 James Bottomley
5 */
6#include <linux/kernel.h>
7#include <linux/math64.h>
8#include <linux/module.h>
9#include <linux/string_helpers.h>
10
11/**
12 * string_get_size - get the size in the specified units
13 * @size: The size to be converted
14 * @units: units to use (powers of 1000 or 1024)
15 * @buf: buffer to format to
16 * @len: length of buffer
17 *
18 * This function returns a string formatted to 3 significant figures
19 * giving the size in the required units. Returns 0 on success or
20 * error on failure. @buf is always zero terminated.
21 *
22 */
23int string_get_size(u64 size, const enum string_size_units units,
24 char *buf, int len)
25{
26 const char *units_10[] = { "B", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB",
27 "EB", "ZB", "YB", NULL};
28 const char *units_2[] = {"B", "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", "PiB",
29 "EiB", "ZiB", "YiB", NULL };
30 const char **units_str[] = {
31 [STRING_UNITS_10] = units_10,
32 [STRING_UNITS_2] = units_2,
33 };
34 const int divisor[] = {
35 [STRING_UNITS_10] = 1000,
36 [STRING_UNITS_2] = 1024,
37 };
38 int i, j;
39 u64 remainder = 0, sf_cap;
40 char tmp[8];
41
42 tmp[0] = '\0';
43
44 for (i = 0; size > divisor[units] && units_str[units][i]; i++)
45 remainder = do_div(size, divisor[units]);
46
47 sf_cap = size;
48 for (j = 0; sf_cap*10 < 1000; j++)
49 sf_cap *= 10;
50
51 if (j) {
52 remainder *= 1000;
53 do_div(remainder, divisor[units]);
54 snprintf(tmp, sizeof(tmp), ".%03lld",
55 (unsigned long long)remainder);
56 tmp[j+1] = '\0';
57 }
58
59 snprintf(buf, len, "%lld%s%s", (unsigned long long)size,
60 tmp, units_str[units][i]);
61
62 return 0;
63}
64EXPORT_SYMBOL(string_get_size);