This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sh: always link in helper functions extracted from libgcc

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sh-always-link-in-helper-functions-extracted-from-libgcc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 84ed8a99058e61567f495cc43118344261641c5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:08:48 -0800
Subject: sh: always link in helper functions extracted from libgcc

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 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
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.10/sh-always-link-in-helper-functions-extracted-from-libgcc.patch
queue-3.10/ext4-do-not-reserve-clusters-when-fs-doesn-t-support-extents.patch
queue-3.10/tty-pmac_zilog-check-existence-of-ports-in-pmz_console_init.patch
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