enabling libgcc for 64-bit divisions, was Re: PROBLEM: XFS on ARM corruption 'Structure needs cl

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:11 PM, George Spelvin <linux at horizon.com> wrote:
>
> Agreed.  But some x86 code I'm working on now, I have a *lot* of
> asm("divl") calls because even do_div isn't great for 64/32->32 division.

Yeah.

I'm not convinced that "64/32->32" is all that generic, though.  If
the dividend in 64-bit, there's no fundamental type-based guarantee
that things will fit.

So your case is rather special, and depends (intimately) on knowing
the actual ranges and how they interact.

That's not a generic situation like "do_div()".

                  Linus