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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-11 11:19:20 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-11 11:19:20 +0200
commit8067794bec1cc5de1431102cf0a6a1c7ce75cd85 (patch)
tree2bfa0fba060d253bbd972282b29a3d60c3e7cb7f /lib/cmdline.c
parent7ab6af7ab69df8c9c5fbc380004fb81187742096 (diff)
parent796aadeb1b2db9b5d463946766c5bbfd7717158c (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c Manual merge: arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/cmdline.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/cmdline.c16
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
index f596c08d213a..5ba8a942a478 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints)
/**
* memparse - parse a string with mem suffixes into a number
* @ptr: Where parse begins
- * @retptr: (output) Pointer to next char after parse completes
+ * @retptr: (output) Optional pointer to next char after parse completes
*
* Parses a string into a number. The number stored at @ptr is
* potentially suffixed with %K (for kilobytes, or 1024 bytes),
@@ -126,11 +126,13 @@ char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints)
* megabyte, or one gigabyte, respectively.
*/
-unsigned long long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)
+unsigned long long memparse(char *ptr, char **retptr)
{
- unsigned long long ret = simple_strtoull (ptr, retptr, 0);
+ char *endptr; /* local pointer to end of parsed string */
- switch (**retptr) {
+ unsigned long long ret = simple_strtoull(ptr, &endptr, 0);
+
+ switch (*endptr) {
case 'G':
case 'g':
ret <<= 10;
@@ -140,10 +142,14 @@ unsigned long long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)
case 'K':
case 'k':
ret <<= 10;
- (*retptr)++;
+ endptr++;
default:
break;
}
+
+ if (retptr)
+ *retptr = endptr;
+
return ret;
}