linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.4 40/43] sh: always link in helper functions extracted from libgcc

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Message-Id: <20140106223943.391611314@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Mon,  6 Jan 2014 14:39:57 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@...esas.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.4 40/43] sh: always link in helper functions extracted from libgcc

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

commit 84ed8a99058e61567f495cc43118344261641c5f upstream.

E.g. landisk_defconfig, which has CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m:

  ERROR: "__ashrdi3" [fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko] undefined!

For "lib-y", if no symbols in a compilation unit are referenced by other
units, the compilation unit will not be included in vmlinux.  This
breaks modules that do reference those symbols.

Use "obj-y" instead to fix this.

http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8838077/

This doesn't fix all cases. There are others, e.g. udivsi3.
This is also not limited to sh, many architectures handle this in the
same way.

A simple solution is to unconditionally include all helper functions.
A more complex solution is to make the choice of "lib-y" or "obj-y" depend
on CONFIG_MODULES:

  obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES) += ...
  lib-y($CONFIG_MODULES) += ...

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Tested-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@...esas.com>
Reviewed-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@...esas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/sh/lib/Makefile |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/sh/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sh/lib/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ lib-y  = delay.o memmove.o memchr.o \
 	 checksum.o strlen.o div64.o div64-generic.o
 
 # Extracted from libgcc
-lib-y += movmem.o ashldi3.o ashrdi3.o lshrdi3.o \
+obj-y += movmem.o ashldi3.o ashrdi3.o lshrdi3.o \
 	 ashlsi3.o ashrsi3.o ashiftrt.o lshrsi3.o \
 	 udiv_qrnnd.o
 


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