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+/* -*- linux-c -*- ------------------------------------------------------- *
+ *
+ *   Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
+ *   Copyright 2007 rPath, Inc. - All Rights Reserved
+ *
+ *   This file is part of the Linux kernel, and is made available under
+ *   the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
+ *
+ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+/*
+ * Very basic string functions
+ */
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <asm/asm.h>
+#include "ctype.h"
+#include "string.h"
+
+/*
+ * Undef these macros so that the functions that we provide
+ * here will have the correct names regardless of how string.h
+ * may have chosen to #define them.
+ */
+#undef memcpy
+#undef memset
+#undef memcmp
+
+int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t len)
+{
+	bool diff;
+	asm("repe; cmpsb" CC_SET(nz)
+	    : CC_OUT(nz) (diff), "+D" (s1), "+S" (s2), "+c" (len));
+	return diff;
+}
+
+int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2)
+{
+	const unsigned char *s1 = (const unsigned char *)str1;
+	const unsigned char *s2 = (const unsigned char *)str2;
+	int delta = 0;
+
+	while (*s1 || *s2) {
+		delta = *s1 - *s2;
+		if (delta)
+			return delta;
+		s1++;
+		s2++;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int strncmp(const char *cs, const char *ct, size_t count)
+{
+	unsigned char c1, c2;
+
+	while (count) {
+		c1 = *cs++;
+		c2 = *ct++;
+		if (c1 != c2)
+			return c1 < c2 ? -1 : 1;
+		if (!c1)
+			break;
+		count--;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+size_t strnlen(const char *s, size_t maxlen)
+{
+	const char *es = s;
+	while (*es && maxlen) {
+		es++;
+		maxlen--;
+	}
+
+	return (es - s);
+}
+
+unsigned int atou(const char *s)
+{
+	unsigned int i = 0;
+	while (isdigit(*s))
+		i = i * 10 + (*s++ - '0');
+	return i;
+}
+
+/* Works only for digits and letters, but small and fast */
+#define TOLOWER(x) ((x) | 0x20)
+
+static unsigned int simple_guess_base(const char *cp)
+{
+	if (cp[0] == '0') {
+		if (TOLOWER(cp[1]) == 'x' && isxdigit(cp[2]))
+			return 16;
+		else
+			return 8;
+	} else {
+		return 10;
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * simple_strtoull - convert a string to an unsigned long long
+ * @cp: The start of the string
+ * @endp: A pointer to the end of the parsed string will be placed here
+ * @base: The number base to use
+ */
+
+unsigned long long simple_strtoull(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base)
+{
+	unsigned long long result = 0;
+
+	if (!base)
+		base = simple_guess_base(cp);
+
+	if (base == 16 && cp[0] == '0' && TOLOWER(cp[1]) == 'x')
+		cp += 2;
+
+	while (isxdigit(*cp)) {
+		unsigned int value;
+
+		value = isdigit(*cp) ? *cp - '0' : TOLOWER(*cp) - 'a' + 10;
+		if (value >= base)
+			break;
+		result = result * base + value;
+		cp++;
+	}
+	if (endp)
+		*endp = (char *)cp;
+
+	return result;
+}
+
+long simple_strtol(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base)
+{
+	if (*cp == '-')
+		return -simple_strtoull(cp + 1, endp, base);
+
+	return simple_strtoull(cp, endp, base);
+}
+
+/**
+ * strlen - Find the length of a string
+ * @s: The string to be sized
+ */
+size_t strlen(const char *s)
+{
+	const char *sc;
+
+	for (sc = s; *sc != '\0'; ++sc)
+		/* nothing */;
+	return sc - s;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strstr - Find the first substring in a %NUL terminated string
+ * @s1: The string to be searched
+ * @s2: The string to search for
+ */
+char *strstr(const char *s1, const char *s2)
+{
+	size_t l1, l2;
+
+	l2 = strlen(s2);
+	if (!l2)
+		return (char *)s1;
+	l1 = strlen(s1);
+	while (l1 >= l2) {
+		l1--;
+		if (!memcmp(s1, s2, l2))
+			return (char *)s1;
+		s1++;
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strchr - Find the first occurrence of the character c in the string s.
+ * @s: the string to be searched
+ * @c: the character to search for
+ */
+char *strchr(const char *s, int c)
+{
+	while (*s != (char)c)
+		if (*s++ == '\0')
+			return NULL;
+	return (char *)s;
+}