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...
prev 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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