Patch "gcov: support GCC 7.1" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

Patch "gcov: support GCC 7.1" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    gcov: support GCC 7.1

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:
     gcov-support-gcc-7.1.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 05384213436ab690c46d9dfec706b80ef8d671ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 15:46:35 -0700
Subject: gcov: support GCC 7.1

From: Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz>

commit 05384213436ab690c46d9dfec706b80ef8d671ab upstream.

Starting from GCC 7.1, __gcov_exit is a new symbol expected to be
implemented in a profiling runtime.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[mliska@suse.cz: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e63a3c59-0149-c97e-4084-20ca8f146b26@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c4084fa-3885-29fe-5fc4-0d4ca199c785@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/gcov/base.c    |    6 ++++++
 kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c |    4 +++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/gcov/base.c
+++ b/kernel/gcov/base.c
@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ void __gcov_merge_icall_topn(gcov_type *
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__gcov_merge_icall_topn);
 
+void __gcov_exit(void)
+{
+	/* Unused. */
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__gcov_exit);
+
 /**
  * gcov_enable_events - enable event reporting through gcov_event()
  *
--- a/kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c
+++ b/kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include "gcov.h"
 
-#if (__GNUC__ > 5) || (__GNUC__ == 5 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 1)
+#if (__GNUC__ >= 7)
+#define GCOV_COUNTERS			9
+#elif (__GNUC__ > 5) || (__GNUC__ == 5 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 1)
 #define GCOV_COUNTERS			10
 #elif __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 9
 #define GCOV_COUNTERS			9


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mliska@suse.cz are

queue-3.18/gcov-support-gcc-7.1.patch