On 08 Jun 2006 04:25:39 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote:
> Andrew Morton <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 00:31:53 +0200
> > "J.A. Magallón" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > WARNING: drivers/block/floppy.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .smp_locks after '' (at offset 0x3c)
> > > WARNING: drivers/block/floppy.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .smp_locks after '' (at offset 0x40)
> > > WARNING: drivers/block/floppy.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .smp_locks after '' (at offset 0x44)
> >
> > Yes, that's a false positive - doing locking from within an __init section.
> > We need to shut that up somehow.
>
> Are you sure it's false?
>
> I don't see an explicit check in alternatives.c for the main kernel
> vs init sections and with CPU hotplug the alternatives can be applied
> arbitarily after the system has booted. So it would just stomp
> over the init text pages which are used for something else now.
>
> I guess to make it safe you would need to teach alternative.c to
> ignore init sections.
for i386 (arch/i386/alternative.c and module.c):
static void alternatives_smp_lock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end)
{...}
only replaces code between text and text_end.
I've cced Gerd on this before. Maybe you can get her to repsond
to confirm or deny.
---
~Randy
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