[PATCH 0/3] lib: Add software mul/div helpers and use them from nios2

[Simon Schuster]

Recently, there have been linking failures on nios2 regarding libgcc
symbols that we reexport to modules (in particular __mulsi3 [0], and
__divsi3_table [1]).

In the resulting discussion, Arnd suggested [2] dropping the libgcc
dependency altogether, as -- while specific functions might be fine --
libgcc does not expect to run in a kernel-like freestanding environment.

To this end, Dinh Nguyen was kind enough to locate and extract
GPLv2-compliant versions of the software mul/div/mod and __gcc_bcmp
functions required by nios2 gcc and integrate them into the kernel.

As Arnd also suggested [3] that these might be helpful to other smaller
architectures (such as arc or openrisc), I've further extracted them to
lib/ with corresponding CONFIG_GENERIC_LIB_* options that allow
selectively enabling and exporting these as required.

The patch series compiles mostly^4 fine in a nios2 allyesconfig
without modpost errors; a quick boot test on a regular build also
completed successfully.

One aspect I'm not fully sure of is whether adding declarations for the
new lib/ functions to include/linux/libgcc.h unconditionally in the last
patch of this series is completely clean; but it matches how other
"optional vendored" functions in libgcc.h seem to be handled.

Best regards,
Simon

0: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20261019-nios2-mulsi3-v1-1-4fd75b1bacef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20261026234452.1086974-1-sashal@xxxxxxxxxx/
2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/686f4ca2-0fb6-4a73-9cdb-0edcccafdd62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/426c73b7-b4dc-4b68-9aa5-6145a13280bc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
4: There seems to be an unrelated issue in linux-next regarding
   CONFIG_PNFS_BLOCK, furthermore -Wno-attribute-alias
   -Wno-missing-prototypes -Wno-missing-declarations and
   -Wno-unused-function were required due to unrelated Werror-related
   compilation issues; but as this series concerns compiler intrinsics
   that are never explictly referenced in code and it links fine this
   seems acceptable to me.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Dinh Nguyen (1):
      nios2: remove usage of libgcc

Simon Schuster (2):
      nios2: export __divsi3_table
      lib: extract 32bit mul/div helpers from nios2 into GENERIC_LIB

 arch/nios2/Kconfig              | 11 +++++
 arch/nios2/Makefile             |  4 +-
 arch/nios2/kernel/nios2_ksyms.c | 22 ----------
 arch/nios2/lib/Makefile         |  1 +
 arch/nios2/lib/math.c           | 26 ++++++++++++
 include/linux/libgcc.h          | 12 ++++++
 lib/Kconfig                     | 18 ++++++++
 lib/Makefile                    | 11 +++++
 lib/divmod.c                    | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/gccbcmp.c                   | 13 ++++++
 lib/mulsi3.c                    | 24 +++++++++++
 11 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: a39c950806213f6861d00f90729acaaa21f2d95a
change-id: 20261030-nios2-remove-usage-of-libgcc-63d9d0faad62

Best regards,
-- 
Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>