lib/hexdump

Based on ace_dump_mem() from Grant Likely for the Xilinx SystemACE
CompactFlash interface.

Add print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper() to lib/hexdump.c and linux/kernel.h.

This patch adds the functions print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper().
print_hex_dump() can be used to perform a hex + ASCII dump of data to
syslog, in an easily viewable format, thus providing a common text hex dump
format.

hex_dumper() provides a dump-to-memory function.  It converts one "line" of
output (16 bytes of input) at a time.

Example usages:
	print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, frame->data, frame->len);
	hex_dumper(frame->data, frame->len, linebuf, sizeof(linebuf));

Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET:
0009ab42: 40414243 44454647 48494a4b 4c4d4e4f-@ABCDEFG HIJKLMNO
Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS:
ffffffff88089af0: 70717273 74757677 78797a7b 7c7d7e7f-pqrstuvw xyz{|}~.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, add export]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 8645181fca0f..eec0d13169a6 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -213,6 +213,17 @@ extern enum system_states {
 
 extern void dump_stack(void);
 
+enum {
+	DUMP_PREFIX_NONE,
+	DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS,
+	DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET
+};
+extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len, char *linebuf,
+				size_t linebuflen);
+extern void print_hex_dump(const char *level, int prefix_type,
+				void *buf, size_t len);
+#define hex_asc(x)	"0123456789abcdef"[x]
+
 #ifdef DEBUG
 /* If you are writing a driver, please use dev_dbg instead */
 #define pr_debug(fmt,arg...) \