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Avoids doing a full strnlen for getting the length of the name of a dirent entry. Given the fact that the name of dirents is stored at the end of the bkey's value, and we know the length of that in u64s, we can find the last u64 and figure out how many NUL bytes are at the end of the string. On little endian systems this ends up being the leading zeros of the last u64, whereas on big endian systems this ends up being the trailing zeros of the last u64. We can take that value in bits and divide it by 8 to get the number of NUL bytes at the end. There is no endian-fixup or other compatibility here as this is string data interpreted as a u64. Signed-off-by: Joshua Ashton <joshua@froggi.es> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.