Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Add "Section mismatch" warning whitelist for powerpc

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:36:40PM +0800, Li Yang-r58472 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak@kernel.crashing.org]
> > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:57 PM
> > To: Sam Ravnborg
> > Cc: Li Yang-r58472; Linus; Andrew Morton; Linux Kernel;
> linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Add "Section mismatch" warning
> whitelist for
> > powerpc
> > 
> > 
> > On May 14, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:53:32PM +0800, Li Yang wrote:
> > >> This patch fixes the following "Section mismatch" warnings when
> > >> build powerpc platforms.
> > >>
> > >> -------------
> > >> 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 0xc68) and 'pte_alloc_one'
> > >> WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> > >> .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between
> > >> 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset
> > >> 0x20300) and 'cache_reap'
> > >> -------------
> > 
> > This warnings should be handled by __init_refok instead.
> 
> Yes.  When __init_refok gets in, we can change all Pattern 9 members in
> the whitelist to use __init_refok.

I have applied the patch without the fixes for the above functions.
Will merge and push the __init_refok changes soonish.

	Sam
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