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From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	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 12:19:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EAFACD.6040302@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090419095759.GA4808@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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.

Can we have a rule that "every __ref usage should have a comment explaining
why __ref is safe in this place"? 

Marcin


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-19 10:20 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
2009-04-19 10:19       ` Marcin Slusarz [this message]
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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