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commit 4ce97317 upstream.

Implementing memcpy and memset in terms of __builtin_memcpy and
__builtin_memset is problematic.

GCC at -O2 will replace calls to the builtins with calls to memcpy and
memset (but will generate an inline implementation at -Os).  Clang will
replace the builtins with these calls regardless of optimization level.
$ llvm-objdump -dr arch/x86/purgatory/string.o | tail

0000000000000339 memcpy:
     339: 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 movabsq $0, %rax
                000000000000033b:  R_X86_64_64  memcpy
     343: ff e0                         jmpq    *%rax

0000000000000345 memset:
     345: 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 movabsq $0, %rax
                0000000000000347:  R_X86_64_64  memset
     34f: ff e0

Such code results in infinite recursion at runtime. This is observed
when doing kexec.

Instead, reuse an implementation from arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c.
This requires to imple...