small update for strlen, strnlen, use less cpu instructions

@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
  * * Sat Feb 09 2002, Jason Thomas <[email protected]>,
  *                    Matthew Hawkins <[email protected]>
  * -  Kissed strtok() goodbye
+ *
+ * * Tuesday June 16 2015, Orestes Leal Rodriguez <[email protected]>
+ * - strlen, strnlen: by using a single counter we use less cpu instructions
+ *   by avoiding substracting the memory addresses before return
  */
 
 #include <linux/types.h>

@@ -401,11 +405,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strim);
  */
 size_t strlen(const char *s)
 {
-	const char *sc;
+	size_t sz = 0;
 
-	for (sc = s; *sc != '\0'; ++sc)
-		/* nothing */;
-	return sc - s;
+	for (; *s++ != '\0'; sz++)
+		/*empty */;
+	return sz;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlen);
 #endif

@@ -418,12 +422,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlen);
  */
 size_t strnlen(const char *s, size_t count)
 {
-	const char *sc;
+	size_t sz = 0;
 
-	for (sc = s; count-- && *sc != '\0'; ++sc)
-		/* nothing */;
-	return sc - s;
+	for (; count-- && *s++ != '\0'; sz++)
+		/* empty */;
+	return sz;
 }
+
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnlen);
 #endif