They don't actually clobber memory, but gcc doesn't even know they
_read_ memory, so can apparently re-order memory accesses around them.

Which obviously does the wrong thing if the memory access happens to
change the memory that the compare function is accessing..

Verified to fix a strange boot problem by Jens Axboe.

This patch shortens non-constant memcpy() by two bytes and fixes spurious
out-of-line constant memcpy().

# size vmlinux.org vmlinux
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3954591 1553426  236544 5744561  57a7b1 vmlinux.org
3952615 1553426  236544 5742585  579ff9 vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!