3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> 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. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile @@ -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