From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rakib.mullick@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix false positive section mismatch warnings in the apic code
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:57:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090419095759.GA4808@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EAF31C.8020108@gmail.com>
* Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> wrote:
> tip-bot for Rakib Mullick pisze:
> > Commit-ID: aa57a15ad17d284e62fbd24cf7e0eb628b2cb3f7
> > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/aa57a15ad17d284e62fbd24cf7e0eb628b2cb3f7
> > Author: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
> > AuthorDate: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:41:17 +0600
> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > CommitDate: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:28:18 +0200
> >
> > x86: Fix false positive section mismatch warnings in the apic code
> >
> > find_unisys_acpi_oem_table() and unmap_unisys_acpi_oem_table()
> > are non init functions, but these functions calls some init
> > functions. But we need these functions as non-init functions.
>
> Why? This warning seems to be valid.
It's put into struct apic::acpi_madt_oem_check - which is a non-init
structure. That particular field is only used from init context -
but other fields are used all the time.
Sam, what's the preferred way to handle these? We could mark the
function pointer prototype there as __initdata, but i suspect we'll
still get the warning in that case.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-19 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-19 2:41 [PATCH] x86: Fix section mismatches in apic Rakib Mullick
2009-04-19 9:30 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix false positive section mismatch warnings in the apic code tip-bot for Rakib Mullick
2009-04-19 9:47 ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-04-19 9:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-19 10:19 ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-04-19 13:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-19 11:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-04-20 4:00 ` Rakib Mullick
2009-05-01 11:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-09 9:35 [PATCH] x86: Fix false positive section mismatch in apic Rakib Mullick
2009-05-10 7:30 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix false positive section mismatch warnings in the apic code tip-bot for Sam Ravnborg
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