linux-kernel - Re: sections mismatch detection

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:03:39 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kerne.org
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sections mismatch detection

On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:38:20 +0100 Michal Marek wrote:

> On 6.1.2010 11:48, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:11:23PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I wonder is it good time to enable DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH by default
> >> now? I mean, remove the following from lib/Kconfig.debug:
> >>
> >> config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
> >>         bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
> >>         depends on UNDEFINED
> >>         # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
> >>         # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
> >>         # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
> >>
> >> Just spotted this, and decided to remind.
> > 
> > My original criteria for enabling this was that we had a warnign free build
> > for all*config on x86 and a few other architectures.
> > While focusing on this I never reached this goal as I usually ended
> > up with some problems related to CPU hotplug.
> > I dunno how close we are today at the "zero warning" target.
> >
> ...
> > 
> > But I can see a steady flow of section mismatch fixes so I think the
> > situation looks better these days.
> 
> There is also steady flow of new code ;-). FWIW, a 2.6.32.2 x86 distro
> build shows 29 section mismatch warnings, 12 of these come from
> drivers/staging, the remaining are (duplicates removed):
> 
> WARNING: drivers/pci/built-in.o(.text+0x10a12): Section mismatch in
> reference from the function dmar_ir_support() to the variable
> .init.data:dmar_tbl
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.devinit.text+0x3aa2): Section mismatch in reference
> from the function ezx_pcap_probe() to the function
> .init.text:set_irq_noprobe()
> WARNING: drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.o(.data+0x44): Section
> mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_rng to the function
> .devexit.text:virtrng_remove()
> WARNING: drivers/scsi/hpsa.o(.text+0x192c): Section mismatch in
> reference from the function hpsa_pci_init() to the function
> .devinit.text:hpsa_interrupt_mode()
> WARNING: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.o(.data+0x44): Section mismatch
> in reference from the variable virtio_balloon to the function
> .devexit.text:virtballoon_remove()
> 
> I'll try a current mainline build with DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y to see
> if/how this changed.

I would prefer to see (logically) the same section mismatch not be
reported multiple times, even though they are in different binary
files.  This would reduce the noise level quite a bit IMO.

E.g., I see this:

WARNING: drivers/scsi/hpsa.o(.text+0x1bd1): Section mismatch in reference from the function hpsa_pci_init() to the function .devinit.text:hpsa_interrupt_mode()
The function hpsa_pci_init() references
the function __devinit hpsa_interrupt_mode().
This is often because hpsa_pci_init lacks a __devinit 
annotation or the annotation of hpsa_interrupt_mode is wrong.

... followed later by ...

WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x28e734): Section mismatch in reference from the function hpsa_pci_init() to the function .devinit.text:hpsa_interrupt_mode()
The function hpsa_pci_init() references
the function __devinit hpsa_interrupt_mode().
This is often because hpsa_pci_init lacks a __devinit 
annotation or the annotation of hpsa_interrupt_mode is wrong.

... followed later by ...

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x5b5cc4): Section mismatch in reference from the function hpsa_pci_init() to the function .devinit.text:hpsa_interrupt_mode()
The function hpsa_pci_init() references
the function __devinit hpsa_interrupt_mode().
This is often because hpsa_pci_init lacks a __devinit 
annotation or the annotation of hpsa_interrupt_mode is wrong.

One of these (preferably the first one) is enough for me.

---
~Randy
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