[PATCH] x86_64: make string func definition work as intended

In include/asm-x86_64/string.h there are such comments:

/* Use C out of line version for memcmp */
#define memcmp __builtin_memcmp
int memcmp(const void * cs,const void * ct,size_t count);

This would mean that if the compiler does not decide to use __builtin_memcmp,
it emits a call to memcmp to be satisfied by the C out-of-line version in
lib/string.c.  What happens is that after preprocessing, in lib/string.i you
may find the definition of "__builtin_strcmp".

Actually, by accident, in the object you will find the definition of strcmp
and such (maybe a trick intended to redirect calls to __builtin_memcmp to the
default memcmp when the definition is not expanded); however, this particular
case is not a documented feature as far as I can see.

Also, the EXPORT_SYMBOL does not work, so it's duplicated in the arch.

I simply added some #undef to lib/string.c and removed the (now duplicated)
exports in x86-64 and UML/x86_64 subarchs (the second ones are introduced by
another patch I just posted for -mm).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c b/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c
index 14ec354bec9..903190a4b3f 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c
@@ -169,10 +169,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtc_lock);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_nmi_callback);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unset_nmi_callback);
 
-#undef memcmp
-extern int memcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcmp);
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier);
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(_atomic_dec_and_lock);