diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/string.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/string.h
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2004, 2007-2010, 2011-2012 Synopsys, Inc. (www.synopsys.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * vineetg: May 2011
+ *  -We had half-optimised memset/memcpy, got better versions of those
+ *  -Added memcmp, strchr, strcpy, strcmp, strlen
+ *
+ * Amit Bhor: Codito Technologies 2004
+ */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_ARC_STRING_H
+#define _ASM_ARC_STRING_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCMP
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCHR
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCPY
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCMP
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
+
+extern void *memset(void *ptr, int, __kernel_size_t);
+extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
+extern void memzero(void *ptr, __kernel_size_t n);
+extern int memcmp(const void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
+extern char *strchr(const char *s, int c);
+extern char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src);
+extern int strcmp(const char *cs, const char *ct);
+extern __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *);
+
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+#endif /* _ASM_ARC_STRING_H */