Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:52:15 -0800 | Subject | Re: Build regressions/improvements in v5.17-rc4 | From | Randy Dunlap <> |
| |
On 2/16/22 00:05, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Randy, > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 10:14 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote: >> On 2/14/22 01:37, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> Below is the list of build error/warning regressions/improvements in >>> v5.17-rc4[1] compared to v5.16[2]. >>> >>> Summarized: >>> - build errors: +14/-2 >>> - build warnings: +23/-25 > >>> 23 warning regressions: >>> + modpost: WARNING: modpost: drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed.o(.data+0x14410): Section mismatch in reference from the variable qed_mfw_legacy_maps to the variable .init.rodata:qed_mfw_legacy_bb_100g: => N/A >> >> This is a little confusing. Was there a problem with qed and qede network drivers? >> Is it still a problem? > > Yes there is. > >> Many of the lines above and below are very similar. > > Sorry, my script to filter out errors/warnings that just moved does > not handle modpost output yet.
I see. No problem.
>> If there is still a problem, what $ARCH and config(s) cause it? >> I can't reproduce it on 11 $ARCH tries. >> Or maybe it is compiler-specific also. > > xtensa-gcc11/xtensa-allmodconfig > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/14697521/ > I don't know why it doesn't show up in the other gcc11 builds. > > I had a look at the problem before, but fixing it is non-trivial: > the driver uses a non-init table of structures that contains pointers > to init data (only used early) and non-init data (used later, too). > Sprinkling __ref over the code may help, but won't protect against > introducing new bugs.
Got it. Thanks again.
-- ~Randy
| |