Adding memdup function to duplicate region of memory.

  void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h |  2 ++
 tools/perf/util/string.c               | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h 
b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h
index 3b2f590..6f19c54 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/string.h
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 #include <string.h>
+
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/string.c b/tools/perf/util/string.c
index 199bc4d..3217059 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/string.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/string.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #include "util.h"
-#include "string.h"
+#include "linux/string.h"
 
 #define K 1024LL
 /*
@@ -335,3 +335,19 @@ char *rtrim(char *s)
 
        return s;
 }
+
+/**
+ * memdup - duplicate region of memory
+ * @src: memory region to duplicate
+ * @len: memory region length
+ */
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
+{
+       void *p;
+
+       p = malloc(len);
+       if (p)
+               memcpy(p, src, len);
+
+       return p;
+}
-- 
1.7.11.4

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