| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:10:20 +0000 From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] msm: headsmp.S: Fix section mismatch On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:26:57PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 19:14 -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.text+0xc80): Section mismatch in > > reference from the function boot_secondary() to the variable > > .init.text:msm_secondary_startup > > The function __cpuinit boot_secondary() references a variable > > __init msm_secondary_startup. If msm_secondary_startup is only > > used by boot_secondary then annotate msm_secondary_startup with > > a matching annotation. > > Description is pretty gross.. Can you just explain how the section > mismatch is happening. That's the error message, which is explanitory. mem_secondary_startup is in the __init section, which is always discarded. boot_secondary is in the __cpuinit section, which may or may not be discarded, and if CPU hotplug is enabled, may be called after the __init section has been discarded. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists