2 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index c57d785ff955..6dde6ccdf00e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -32,9 +32,11 @@
 #undef memcpy
 #undef memset
 #define memzero(s, n)	memset((s), 0, (n))
+#define memmove		memmove
 
 /* Functions used by the included decompressor code below. */
 static void error(char *m);
+void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n);
 
 /*
  * This is set up by the setup-routine at boot-time
@@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ static void scroll(void)
 {
 	int i;
 
-	memcpy(vidmem, vidmem + cols * 2, (lines - 1) * cols * 2);
+	memmove(vidmem, vidmem + cols * 2, (lines - 1) * cols * 2);
 	for (i = (lines - 1) * cols * 2; i < lines * cols * 2; i += 2)
 		vidmem[i] = ' ';
 }
@@ -307,7 +309,7 @@ static void parse_elf(void *output)
 #else
 			dest = (void *)(phdr->p_paddr);
 #endif
-			memcpy(dest, output + phdr->p_offset, phdr->p_filesz);
+			memmove(dest, output + phdr->p_offset, phdr->p_filesz);
 			break;
 		default: /* Ignore other PT_* */ break;
 		}
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
index 1e10e40f49dd..2befeca1aada 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
+/*
+ * This provides an optimized implementation of memcpy, and a simplified
+ * implementation of memset and memmove. These are used here because the
+ * standard kernel runtime versions are not yet available and we don't
+ * trust the gcc built-in implementations as they may do unexpected things
+ * (e.g. FPU ops) in the minimal decompression stub execution environment.
+ */
 #include "../string.c"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 {
 	int d0, d1, d2;
 	asm volatile(
@@ -15,7 +22,7 @@ void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 	return dest;
 }
 #else
-void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 {
 	long d0, d1, d2;
 	asm volatile(
@@ -40,17 +47,13 @@ void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n)
 	return s;
 }
 
-/*
- * This memcpy is overlap safe (i.e. it is memmove without conflicting
- * with other definitions of memmove from the various decompressors.
- */
-void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 {
 	unsigned char *d = dest;
 	const unsigned char *s = src;
 
 	if (d <= s || d - s >= n)
-		return __memcpy(dest, src, n);
+		return memcpy(dest, src, n);
 
 	while (n-- > 0)
 		d[n] = s[n];