+/**
+ * Parse a string that represents a time in human readable format. It
+ * supports decimal integers suffixed by 's', 'u', 'm', 'us', and 'ms'.
+ *
+ * The suffix multiply the integer by:
+ * 'u'/'us': 1
+ * 'm'/'ms': 1000
+ * 's': 1000000
+ *
+ * Note that unit-less numbers are assumed to be microseconds.
+ *
+ * @param str The string to parse, assumed to be NULL-terminated.
+ * @param time_us Pointer to a uint64_t that will be filled with the
+ * resulting time in microseconds.
+ *
+ * @return 0 on success, -1 on failure.
+ */
+LTTNG_HIDDEN
+int utils_parse_time_suffix(char const * const str, uint64_t * const time_us)
+{
+ int ret;
+ uint64_t base_time;
+ long multiplier = 1;
+ const char *str_end;
+ char *num_end;
+
+ if (!str) {
+ DBG("utils_parse_time_suffix: received a NULL string.");
+ ret = -1;
+ goto end;
+ }
+
+ /* strtoull will accept a negative number, but we don't want to. */
+ if (strchr(str, '-') != NULL) {
+ DBG("utils_parse_time_suffix: invalid time string, should not contain '-'.");
+ ret = -1;
+ goto end;
+ }
+
+ /* str_end will point to the \0 */
+ str_end = str + strlen(str);
+ errno = 0;
+ base_time = strtoull(str, &num_end, 10);
+ if (errno != 0) {
+ PERROR("utils_parse_time_suffix strtoull on string \"%s\"", str);
+ ret = -1;
+ goto end;
+ }
+
+ if (num_end == str) {
+ /* strtoull parsed nothing, not good. */
+ DBG("utils_parse_time_suffix: strtoull had nothing good to parse.");
+ ret = -1;
+ goto end;
+ }
+
+ /* Check if a prefix is present. */
+ switch (*num_end) {
+ case 'u':
+ multiplier = 1;
+ /* Skip another letter in the 'us' case. */
+ num_end += (*(num_end + 1) == 's') ? 2 : 1;
+ break;
+ case 'm':
+ multiplier = 1000;
+ /* Skip another letter in the 'ms' case. */
+ num_end += (*(num_end + 1) == 's') ? 2 : 1;
+ break;
+ case 's':
+ multiplier = 1000000;
+ num_end++;
+ break;
+ case '\0':
+ break;
+ default:
+ DBG("utils_parse_time_suffix: invalid suffix.");
+ ret = -1;
+ goto end;
+ }
+
+ /* Check for garbage after the valid input. */
+ if (num_end != str_end) {
+ DBG("utils_parse_time_suffix: Garbage after time string.");
+ ret = -1;
+ goto end;
+ }
+
+ *time_us = base_time * multiplier;
+
+ /* Check for overflow */
+ if ((*time_us / multiplier) != base_time) {
+ DBG("utils_parse_time_suffix: oops, overflow detected.");
+ ret = -1;
+ goto end;
+ }
+
+ ret = 0;
+end:
+ return ret;
+}
+