Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:48:48 -0800 | | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64: clear IO_APIC before enabing apic error vector. v2 |
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On Dec 30, 2007 6:51 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > * Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM> wrote: > > > please check if you can replace the one in the x86-mm > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git;a=commitdiff;h=ffcbdc220a1520d006a837f33589c7c19ffbeb76 > > > > the updated one avoid one link warning. > > please send delta patches instead - so that we can review the changes.
will do that in another patch.
> > > this is the updated verison that take enable_IO_APIC as extra call for > > setup_local_APIC to avoid linking warning. > > hm, what link warning did you get? Perhaps the following __cpuinit:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x163d5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:enable_IO_APIC (between 'setup_local_APIC' and 'apic_is_clustered_box')
> > > -void __cpuinit setup_local_APIC (void) > > does not mix well with an __init call: > > > +void __init enable_IO_APIC(void) > > and you hack it around by using a function pointer. Nasty and still > buggy. The proper solution would be to mark enable_IO_APIC as __cpuinit > too (or something like that).
after change that to __cpuinit, i got
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x17f84): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'enable_IO_APIC' and 'ioapic_resume') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x17f92): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'enable_IO_APIC' and 'ioapic_resume')
YH
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