lib/string.c: add multibyte memset functions

Patch series "Multibyte memset variations", v4.

A relatively common idiom we're missing is a function to fill an area of
memory with a pattern which is larger than a single byte.  I first
noticed this with a zram patch which wanted to fill a page with an
'unsigned long' value.  There turn out to be quite a few places in the
kernel which can benefit from using an optimised function rather than a
loop; sometimes text size, sometimes speed, and sometimes both.  The
optimised PowerPC version (not included here) improves performance by
about 30% on POWER8 on just the raw memset_l().

Most of the extra lines of code come from the three testcases I added.

This patch (of 8):

memset16(), memset32() and memset64() are like memset(), but allow the
caller to fill the destination with a value larger than a single byte.
memset_l() and memset_p() allow the caller to use unsigned long and
pointer values respectively.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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