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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Andrew Scull <ascull@google.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	David Brazdil <dbrazdil@google.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: remove incorrect __init annotation
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2021 16:43:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rf2km2c.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210103140104.3853922-1-arnd@kernel.org>

On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 14:00:50 +0000,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> When hyp_cpu_pm_exit() is not inlined, it causes a link time warning:
> 
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text+0x39974): Section mismatch in reference from the function kvm_arch_init() to the function .init.text:hyp_cpu_pm_exit()
> The function kvm_arch_init() references
> the function __init hyp_cpu_pm_exit().
> This is often because kvm_arch_init lacks a __init
> annotation or the annotation of hyp_cpu_pm_exit is wrong.
> 
> This is not only called at boot time, so remove the annotation
> to prevent undefined behavior in case it gets called after being
> freed.

It *is* only called at boot time (despite these functions being called
from module_init(), KVM cannot be built as a module on arm64).

The annotations are wrong nonetheless.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Posted here [1], and queued for the next batch of fixes.

	M.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20201223120854.255347-1-maz@kernel.org

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-03 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-03 14:00 [PATCH] KVM: arm64: remove incorrect __init annotation Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-03 16:43 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2021-01-03 18:38   ` Arnd Bergmann

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