Section mismatch warnings (was Re: [PATCH] early_pfn_to_nid needs to be __meminit)

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:25:52AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> since it is referenced by memmap_init_zone (which is __meminit) via the
> early_pfn_in_nid macro when CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES is set (which
> basically means PowerPC 64).
> 
> This removes a section mismatch warning in those circumstances.

Speaking of this, I just tried to compile an official (Linus' git tree) 
kernel for my old PMac G4 and I get a lot of section mismatch warnings at 
the end of the compilation:

  LD      vmlinux
  SYSMAP  System.map
  SYSMAP  .tmp_System.map
  MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: "fee_restarts" [arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "ee_restarts" [arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:.got2 from dt_string_start (offset 0x8)
WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:.got2 from dt_string_end (offset 0xc)
...
WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:.got2 from dt_struct_end (offset 0x20c)
WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:.got2 from disp_BAT (offset 0x234)
WARNING: "primary_pteg_full" [arch/powerpc/mm/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "next_slot" [arch/powerpc/mm/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: "htab_hash_searches" [arch/powerpc/mm/built-in] is COMMON symbol
WARNING: arch/powerpc/mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:early_get_page from .text between 'pte_alloc_one_kernel' (at offset 0xf50) and 'v_mapped_by_bats'
WARNING: arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:.got2 from  (offset 0x0)
...
WARNING: arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:pmac_pcibios_after_init from .machine.desc after 'mach_powermac' (at offset 0xc4)
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at
offset 0x1de88) and 'kmem_cache_shrink'
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at
offset 0x1dec0) and 'kmem_cache_shrink'

I find these 50 or so warnings so scary that I've not yet tried 
to boot the kernel. Note that this is a non-modular kernel.

	Gabriel