Re: Problem when Patching the kernel for largeblocksize

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:51:09PM +0800, hongqian wrote:
> I get the patch from /pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/largeblocksize/4

Why ask -fsdevel, rather than, say, Christoph?

> the kernel is linux-2.6.22-rc4
> 
> I build the kernel with such warnings:
> 
>  MODPOST vmlinux
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x8d85): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'mtrr_bp_init' and 'mtrr_ap_init')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x8ef3): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'mtrr_bp_init' and 'mtrr_ap_init')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x8ef8): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'mtrr_bp_init' and 'mtrr_ap_init')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x9851): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'get_mtrr_state' and 'mtrr_wrmsr')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x98f3): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'get_mtrr_state' and 'mtrr_wrmsr')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x9904): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'get_mtrr_state' and 'mtrr_wrmsr')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x992d): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'get_mtrr_state' and 'mtrr_wrmsr')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xbeee): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.data:trampoline_end (between 'setup_trampoline' and
> 'cpu_coregroup_map')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xbef3): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.data:trampoline_data (between 'setup_trampoline'
> and 'cpu_coregroup_map')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xbf01): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.data:trampoline_data (between 'setup_trampoline'
> and 'cpu_coregroup_map')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.exit.text+0x19): Section
> mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'cache_remove_dev' and
> 'ffh_cstate_exit')
> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.data+0xf40): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'thermal_throttle_cpu_notifier' and
> 'mtrr_mutex')
> WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x161d5): Section mismatch: reference
> to .init.text: (between 'kthreadd' and 'init_waitqueue_head')
>   OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
>   GZIP    arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz
>   LD      arch/i386/boot/compressed/piggy.o
>   LD      arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux
>   OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin
>   BUILD   arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> Root device is (253, 0)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 5226 bytes.
> System is 1503 kB
> Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready  (#15)
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST 337 modules
> WARNING: drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.o(.text+0x6e8): Section mismatch:
> reference to .exit.text: (after 'cleanup_module')
> WARNING: drivers/net/sis900.o(.text+0x4d7): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text:sis900_mii_probe (between 'sis900_probe' and
> 'sis900_default_phy')
> WARNING: drivers/net/sunhme.o(.text+0x2837): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'happy_meal_pci_probe' and
> 'happy_meal_pci_remove')
> 
> while use this builded kernel, System can's boot.
> 
> Can anyone help ?
> 
> And any patch for kernel 2.6.24 .
> 
> Best regards !
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