Re: [PATCH] sh: use sizeof() in memchunk_cmdline_override

Hi Thorsten,

On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 14:10, Thorsten Blum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Replace the hard-coded string length with 'sizeof("memchunk.") - 1' and
> remove the comment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/arch/sh/mm/consistent.c
> +++ b/arch/sh/mm/consistent.c
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static void __init memchunk_cmdline_override(char *name, unsigned long *sizep)
>         int k = strlen(name);
>
>         while ((p = strstr(p, "memchunk."))) {
> -               p += 9; /* strlen("memchunk.") */
> +               p += sizeof("memchunk.") - 1;

Can't you just use strlen() instead, i.e. won't the compiler optimize
that into a constant?

>                 if (!strncmp(name, p, k) && p[k] == '=') {
>                         p += k + 1;
>                         *sizep = memparse(p, NULL);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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