[PATCH] MIPS: lib: Remove '.hidden' for local symbols

From: Nathan Chancellor

Date: Mon Jun 08 2026 - 23:41:25 EST


After a recent change in binutils that warns when local symbols have
non-default visibility [1], there are a couple instances when building
arch/mips:

Assembler messages:
{standard input}: Warning: local symbol `__memset' has non-default visibility
Assembler messages:
{standard input}: Warning: local symbol `__memcpy' has non-default visibility

Remove the '.hidden' directives for these symbols to clear up the
warnings, as they are pointless with a local symbol, which is by
definition hidden. This results in no changes to these symbols in nm's
output when assembled with various copies of binutils.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20260509122517.GA1108596@ax162/
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c4150acbda1b3ce0602f79cbb7700b39e577be7e [1]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S | 2 --
arch/mips/lib/memset.S | 2 --
2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S b/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S
index a4b4e805ff13..84f85aba6f4b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S
+++ b/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S
@@ -274,7 +274,6 @@
/* initialize __memcpy if this the first time we execute this macro */
.ifnotdef __memcpy
.set __memcpy, 1
- .hidden __memcpy /* make sure it does not leak */
.endif

/*
@@ -538,7 +537,6 @@
.if __memcpy == 1
END(memcpy)
.set __memcpy, 0
- .hidden __memcpy
.endif

.Ll_exc_copy\@:
diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/memset.S b/arch/mips/lib/memset.S
index 79405c32cc85..ab087406da66 100644
--- a/arch/mips/lib/memset.S
+++ b/arch/mips/lib/memset.S
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@
/* Initialize __memset if this is the first time we call this macro */
.ifnotdef __memset
.set __memset, 1
- .hidden __memset /* Make sure it does not leak */
.endif

sltiu t0, a2, STORSIZE /* very small region? */
@@ -231,7 +230,6 @@
.if __memset == 1
END(memset)
.set __memset, 0
- .hidden __memset
.endif

#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_NO_LOAD_STORE_LR

---
base-commit: 6d96cc123ce33cd74e799c5434440393ed022bb7
change-id: 20260608-mips-fix-binutils-visibility-warning-71e531e65f78

Best regards,
--
Cheers,
Nathan