linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2: warnings in MODPOST and later

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Date:	Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:42:05 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"virtualization@...ts.osdl.org" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2: warnings in MODPOST and later

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:09 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:56:22 +0100
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:
> 
> > Since people were recently complaining about too many warnings:
> > Here is a list of the warnings I'm getting in MODPOST and later.
> > 
> > Since the warnings by far exceed the 100kB limit of linux-kernel (sic), 
> > I had to attach them compressed.
> > 
> > With the exception of the "drivers/ide/pci/atiixp:FFFF05", none of these 
> > warnings is present in Linus' tree.
> 
> yes, lots of new section mismatch warnings.
> 
> A large number of them are due to the paravirt patches:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .parainstructions between '__start_parainstructions' (at offset 0xc0458470) and '__stop_parainstructions'
> WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .parainstructions between '__start_parainstructions' (at offset 0xc0458478) and '__stop_parainstructions'


ok this means that you shouldn't probably switch paravirtualizations
after boot, but that's ok ;) it's not like hypervisor support should be
a module anyway


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