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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Keith Ownes <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Subject: Re: kbuild - status on section mismatch warnings
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:52:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060305235238.GE27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060305215853.GA14998@mars.ravnborg.org>

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:58:53PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Al.
> 
> > Now try x86 with sd.o non-modular.  And see
> > 
> > 
> > __init foo()
> > {
> > ....
> > 	switch(n) {
> > 	....
> > 	....
> > 	}
> > }
> Hmm, in my tree sd.o has no switch in the init function. But that does
> not change your point which is valid indeed.

sd_major() gets inlined there with sufficiently recent gcc.
 
> For the same reason references to .init.text from .rodata are not warned
> upon - there are simply too many compielr generated false positives.
> 
> Following is the original comment from reference_init.pl:

Oops, right you are - it's reference_discarded that gets buggered on that.
My apologies.  Still gets a spew on make buildcheck, though...

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-05 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-05 19:30 kbuild - status on section mismatch warnings Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-05 20:06 ` Al Viro
2006-03-05 21:58   ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-05 22:04     ` Ben Dooks
2006-03-05 22:39       ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-05 23:52     ` Al Viro [this message]

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