Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm2: problems on HP nx6325

Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-27T16:52:27Z

Hi Rafael.
>
> Fix CPU hotplug breakage on HP nx6325 and similar boxes caused by a reference
> to disable_apic_timer (labeled as __initdata) from the CPU initialization code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> ---
> arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c
> +++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
>
> int apic_verbosity;
> static int apic_calibrate_pmtmr __initdata;
> -int disable_apic_timer __initdata;
> +int disable_apic_timer __cpuinitdata;
>
This is with your configuration a reference from a .text section
to a .init.data section as I see it.

So this ought to have been flagged by the section mismatch
checks in modpost.

I assume you did not see such warning??

Sam