powerpc/mm: Fix section mismatch warning in stop_machine_change_mapping()

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Mar 29 01:13:23 AEDT 2018


On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 20:45:58 UTC, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote:
> Fix the warning messages for stop_machine_change_mapping(), and a number
> of other affected functions in its call chain.
> 
> All modified functions are under CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG, so __meminit
> is okay (keeps them / does not discard them).
> 
> Boot-tested on powernv/power9/radix-mmu and pseries/power8/hash-mmu.
> 
>     $ make -j$(nproc) CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y vmlinux
>     ...
>       MODPOST vmlinux.o
>     WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x6b130): Section mismatch in reference from the function stop_machine_change_mapping() to the function .meminit.text:create_physical_mapping()
>     The function stop_machine_change_mapping() references
>     the function __meminit create_physical_mapping().
>     This is often because stop_machine_change_mapping lacks a __meminit 
>     annotation or the annotation of create_physical_mapping is wrong.
> 
>     WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x6b13c): Section mismatch in reference from the function stop_machine_change_mapping() to the function .meminit.text:create_physical_mapping()
>     The function stop_machine_change_mapping() references
>     the function __meminit create_physical_mapping().
>     This is often because stop_machine_change_mapping lacks a __meminit 
>     annotation or the annotation of create_physical_mapping is wrong.
>     ...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bde709a70884bfc790da6fbc4467c9

cheers


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