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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] cpu: silence section mismatch warnings for hotcpu notifies
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:10:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201817440-5081-6-git-send-email-sam@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080131220430.GA4874@uranus.ravnborg.org>

The hotcpu_notifier is used to create notifiers to be called later.
It really looks like the functions that are registered are only
relevant in a HOTPLUG_CPU configuration and the correct fix was
to wrap them in an #ifdef / #endif or similar.
But for now just tell modpost to silence the warning by annotating
the static variable with __refdata.

This silences the following warnings in kernel/:
WARNING: o-x86_64/kernel/built-in.o(.data+0x960): Section mismatch in reference from the variable profile_cpu_callback_nb.17240 to the function .devinit.text:profile_cpu_callback()
WARNING: o-x86_64/kernel/built-in.o(.data+0x3fa0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable workqueue_cpu_callback_nb.14663 to the function .devinit.text:workqueue_cpu_callback()
WARNING: o-x86_64/kernel/built-in.o(.data+0xe280): Section mismatch in reference from the variable relay_hotcpu_callback_nb.19247 to the function .cpuinit.text:relay_hotcpu_callback()

Additional warnings are silenced with this change but
they are left put.

This patch is just a workaround for the bad practice
to use __cpuinit to annotate code solely used for
HOTPLUG_CPU.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/cpu.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h
index 0be8d65..cebb8c0 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpu.h
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static inline void cpuhotplug_mutex_unlock(struct mutex *cpu_hp_mutex)
 extern void get_online_cpus(void);
 extern void put_online_cpus(void);
 #define hotcpu_notifier(fn, pri) {				\
-	static struct notifier_block fn##_nb =			\
+	static struct notifier_block fn##_nb __refdata =	\
 		{ .notifier_call = fn, .priority = pri };	\
 	register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb);			\
 }
-- 
1.5.4.rc3.14.g44397


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31 22:04 [PATCH 0/11] fix 25 section mismatch warnings Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] pci: fix section mismatch warnings referring to pci_do_scan_bus Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-02 10:26   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] pci: fix 4x section mismatch warnings Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] cpu: fix section mismatch warnings for enable_nonboot_cpus Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] cpu: fix section mismatch related to cpu_chain Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] cpu: do not annotate exported register_cpu_notifier() Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] mm: fix section mismatch warning in sparse.c Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] x86: fix section mismatch warning in acpi/boot.c Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] x86: silence section mismatch warning in smpboot_64.c Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] x86: fix section mismatch warning in kernel/pci-calgary Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] x86: fix section mismatch warnings when referencing notifiers Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 22:39 ` [PATCH 0/11] fix 25 section mismatch warnings Ingo Molnar

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