1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/lz4/lz4defs.h b/lib/lz4/lz4defs.h
index 1a7fa9d9170f..c91dd96ef629 100644
--- a/lib/lz4/lz4defs.h
+++ b/lib/lz4/lz4defs.h
@@ -137,6 +137,16 @@ static FORCE_INLINE void LZ4_writeLE16(void *memPtr, U16 value)
 	return put_unaligned_le16(value, memPtr);
 }
 
+/*
+ * LZ4 relies on memcpy with a constant size being inlined. In freestanding
+ * environments, the compiler can't assume the implementation of memcpy() is
+ * standard compliant, so apply its specialized memcpy() inlining logic. When
+ * possible, use __builtin_memcpy() to tell the compiler to analyze memcpy()
+ * as-if it were standard compliant, so it can inline it in freestanding
+ * environments. This is needed when decompressing the Linux Kernel, for example.
+ */
+#define LZ4_memcpy(dst, src, size) __builtin_memcpy(dst, src, size)
+
 static FORCE_INLINE void LZ4_copy8(void *dst, const void *src)
 {
 #if LZ4_ARCH64