From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
To: Vineet Gupta <vineetg76@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
noamc@ezchip.com,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arc: kernel: remove '__init' for first_lines_of_secondary()
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:08:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526F0A71.4000504@asianux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <526E6C6B.9020507@synopsys.com>
On 10/28/2013 09:53 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 10/23/2013 07:46 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
>> first_lines_of_secondary() is a '__init' function, but it may be called
>> by __cpu_up() by _cpu_up() by cpu_up() which is a normal export symbol
>> function. So recommend to remove '__init'.
>>
>> The related warning (with allmodconfig):
>>
>> MODPOST vmlinux.o
>> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x315c): Section mismatch in reference from the function __cpu_up() to the function .init.text:first_lines_of_secondary()
>> The function __cpu_up() references
>> the function __init first_lines_of_secondary().
>> This is often because __cpu_up lacks a __init
>> annotation or the annotation of first_lines_of_secondary is wrong.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
>
> Applied for 3.13. But I'm planning to squash all the __init section annotation
> fixes into one patch. OK with you ?
>
It is OK to me. They are all related with each other, although toolchain
reports several warnings (originally, I made them based on warning items).
Thanks.
--
Chen Gang
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-23 2:16 [PATCH] arc: kernel: remove '__init' for first_lines_of_secondary() Chen Gang
2013-10-28 13:53 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-10-29 1:08 ` Chen Gang [this message]
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