STRING_BENCH_BUF(9)

💖 STRING_BENCH_BUF(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for STRING_BENCH_BUF — yes, that’s the manual name, and we are absolutely not copying the boring duplicate header line, we’re folding it in cute-style 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

STRING_BENCH_BUF — a benchmark harness for single-buffer functions. That’s the whole vibe ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

STRING_BENCH_BUF (test , buf_name , buf_size , func , ... );

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• test — KUnit context. yep, the KUnit situation 🫶
• buf_name — local char * variable name to be defined.
• buf_size — local size_t variable name to be defined.
• func — the function to benchmark. go off, func 👑
• ... — extra arguments for func.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Prepares a randomized, NUL-terminated buffer and iterates through lengths in bench_lens, defining buf_name and buf_size in each loop. literally the whole little benchmark setup, no cap 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./lib/tests/string_kunit.c: strscpy_check(9), alloc_max_bench_buffer(9), fill_random_string(9), STRING_BENCH(9).

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byeeee, bestie 🫶 — source/version is ./lib/tests, dated October 2026 🎀✨