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Revision v4 of 2 in this series; landed in mainline as 48fbcd4db34b on 2026-03-11.

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[PATCH v4 14/18] rtla/timerlat: Simplify RTLA_NO_BPF environment variable check

From: Wander Lairson Costa <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-09 19:59:25
Also in: bpf, lkml
Subsystem: real-time linux analysis (rtla) tools, the rest · Maintainers: Steven Rostedt, Tomas Glozar, Linus Torvalds

The code that checks the RTLA_NO_BPF environment variable calls
getenv() twice and uses strncmp() with a length of 2 to compare
against the single-character string "1". This is inefficient and
the comparison length is unnecessarily long.

Store the result of getenv() in a local variable to avoid the
redundant call, and replace strncmp() with strncmp_static() for
the exact match comparison. This follows the same pattern
established in recent commits that improved string comparison
consistency throughout the rtla codebase.

Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <redacted>
---
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat.c
index 84577daadd668..91f15f86e78d4 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat.c
@@ -28,12 +28,13 @@ int
 timerlat_apply_config(struct osnoise_tool *tool, struct timerlat_params *params)
 {
 	int retval;
+	const char *const rtla_no_bpf = getenv("RTLA_NO_BPF");
 
 	/*
 	 * Try to enable BPF, unless disabled explicitly.
 	 * If BPF enablement fails, fall back to tracefs mode.
 	 */
-	if (getenv("RTLA_NO_BPF") && strncmp(getenv("RTLA_NO_BPF"), "1", 2) == 0) {
+	if (rtla_no_bpf && strncmp_static(rtla_no_bpf, "1") == 0) {
 		debug_msg("RTLA_NO_BPF set, disabling BPF\n");
 		params->mode = TRACING_MODE_TRACEFS;
 	} else if (!tep_find_event_by_name(tool->trace.tep, "osnoise", "timerlat_sample")) {
-- 
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