On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:45:48 +0000 Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Commit 55395ae72b6e5ae614d28df74158c47454652583 introduced:
>
> `.exit.text' referenced in section `.init.text' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
>
> Never mark functions that may be called during run time or
> initialisation time with a section that may be (or have been)
> discarded.
>
> It was mentioned in the commit comments that an exit-section function
> was being called from an init-section function. This should _always_
> result in the patch being rejected. It's just a big no no.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
> index 8a45d0f..bf5f780 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
> @@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ freq_table_get_index(struct cpufreq_stats *stat, unsigned int freq)
> return -1;
> }
>
> -static void __cpuexit cpufreq_stats_free_table(unsigned int cpu)
> +/* functions called from init paths can not be marked for an exit section */
> +static void /*__cpuexit*/ cpufreq_stats_free_table(unsigned int cpu)
> {
> struct cpufreq_stats *stat = cpufreq_stats_table[cpu];
> struct cpufreq_policy *policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
>
yu, thanks, I have a fix for this from Adrian queued for when Linus
resurfaces.
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