In some cases (e.g. bootm with a elf payload which is already at the right position) there is a in place copy of data to the same address. Catching this saves some ms while booting.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Weisser <weiss...@arcor.de> --- Changes since V1: - Made subject more informative - Removed the optimization from bcopy as bcopy is not used anywhere lib/string.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index b375b81..2c4f0ec 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -467,6 +467,9 @@ void * memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t count) unsigned long *dl = (unsigned long *)dest, *sl = (unsigned long *)src; char *d8, *s8; + if (src == dest) + return dest; + /* while all data is aligned (common case), copy a word at a time */ if ( (((ulong)dest | (ulong)src) & (sizeof(*dl) - 1)) == 0) { while (count >= sizeof(*dl)) { @@ -497,6 +500,9 @@ void * memmove(void * dest,const void *src,size_t count) { char *tmp, *s; + if (src == dest) + return dest; + if (dest <= src) { tmp = (char *) dest; s = (char *) src; -- 1.7.0.4 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot