[PATCH 07/11] kexec: Create a relocatable object called purgatory

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/27/2014 10:57 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> +
> +/**
> + * memcpy - Copy one area of memory to another
> + * @dest: Where to copy to
> + * @src: Where to copy from
> + * @count: The size of the area.
> + */
> +static void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, unsigned long count)
> +{
> +	char *tmp = dest;
> +	const char *s = src;
> +
> +	while (count--)
> +		*tmp++ = *s++;
> +	return dest;
> +}
> +
> +static int memcmp(const void *cs, const void *ct, size_t count)
> +{
> +	const unsigned char *su1, *su2;
> +	int res = 0;
> +
> +	for (su1 = cs, su2 = ct; 0 < count; ++su1, ++su2, count--)
> +		if ((res = *su1 - *su2) != 0)
> +			break;
> +	return res;
> +}
> +

<bikeshed>

There multiple implementations of memcpy(), memcmp() and memset() in
this patchset, and they make my eyes want to bleed (especially
memcmp()).  Can we centralize there, and perhaps even share code with
the stuff in arch/x86/boot already?

</bikeshed>

	-hpa