Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:01:02 +0100 | From | Heiko Carstens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] trace/ring_buffer: fix section mismatch warning |
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On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:39:11 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > Section mismatch in reference from the function > > ring_buffer_alloc() to the function .cpuinit.text:rb_cpu_notify() > > The function ring_buffer_alloc() references the function __cpuinit > > rb_cpu_notify(). This is often because ring_buffer_alloc lacks a > > __cpuinit annotation or the annotation of rb_cpu_notify is wrong. > > > > This is a false positive since rb_cpu_notify gets only referenced > > if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y. To get rid of the warning annotate > > ring_buffer_alloc with __ref. > > > > Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> > > --- > > kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- > > Frederic has beaten you to it narrowly: > > 09c9e84: tracing/ring-buffer: don't annotate rb_cpu_notify with __cpuinit
Btw. that was the only section mismatch warning I got on linux-next with an allyesconfig on s390. We probably could enable the verbose section mismatch warnings at compile time?
Sam?
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