Patch "arm64: build vdso without libgcov" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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

arm64: build vdso without libgcov

to the 3.18-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:
arm64-build-vdso-without-libgcov.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

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

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:37:12 +0100
Subject: arm64: build vdso without libgcov

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

commit 543097843ca7c9ac3758d0b5879ea2a6f44089de upstream.

On a cross-toolchain without glibc support, libgcov may not be available, and attempting to build an arm64 kernel with GCOV enabled then results in a build error:

/home/arnd/cross-gcc/lib/gcc/aarch64-linux/5.2.1/../../../../aarch64-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcov

We don't really want to link libgcov into the vdso anyway, so this patch just disables GCOV in the vdso directory, just as we do for most other architectures.

---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ ccflags-y := -shared -fno-common -fno-bu
 ccflags-y += -nostdlib -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
 		$(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv)
 
+# Disable gcov profiling for VDSO code
+GCOV_PROFILE := n
+
 # Workaround for bare-metal (ELF) toolchains that neglect to pass -shared
 # down to collect2, resulting in silent corruption of the vDSO image.
 ccflags-y += -Wl,-shared

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

queue-3.18/ib-iser-fix-sparse-warnings.patch queue-3.18/cred-userns-define-current_user_ns-as-a-function.patch queue-3.18/pci-xilinx-fix-harmless-format-string-warning.patch queue-3.18/arm64-build-vdso-without-libgcov.patch queue-3.18/arm64-provide-a-namespace-to-ncaps.patch queue-3.18/alsa-ppc-awacs-shut-up-maybe-uninitialized-warning.patch queue-3.18/net-tg3-avoid-uninitialized-variable-warning.patch queue-3.18/tty-isicom-fix-big-endian-compile-warning.patch queue-3.18/mtd-avoid-stack-overflow-in-mtd-cfi-code.patch queue-3.18/ib-qib-rename-bits_per_page-to-rvt_bits_per_page.patch queue-3.18/ips-remove-pointless-warning.patch queue-3.18/powerpc-ptrace-fix-out-of-bounds-array-access-warning.patch queue-3.18/staging-imx-drm-fix-indentation-warning.patch queue-3.18/mlx5-avoid-build-warnings-on-32-bit.patch queue-3.18/mm-cma-silence-warnings-due-to-max-usage.patch queue-3.18/misdn-avoid-arch-specific-__builtin_return_address-call.patch queue-3.18/staging-bcm-add-32-bit-host-dependency.patch queue-3.18/staging-vt6655-fix-overly-large-stack-usage.patch queue-3.18/drbd-avoid-redefinition-of-bits_per_page.patch queue-3.18/infiniband-mlx5-avoid-a-compile-time-warning.patch queue-3.18/arm-cns3xxx-shut-up-frame-size-warning.patch queue-3.18/ib-ehca-fix-maybe-uninitialized-warnings.patch