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Date:	Thu, 4 Aug 2011 11:40:15 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>, greg@...ah.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [3.0-git16] Oops at driver_uevent_store().

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:47:11AM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [Added Adrian Bunk to the Cc: list]

Thanks.

> 2011/8/3 Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>:
>...
> commit 74b9a297866d0416edd0be5014cb0810de049c6a
> Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
> Date:   Mon Mar 26 21:32:27 2007 -0800
> 
>     [PATCH] drivers/eisa/pci_eisa.c:pci_eisa_init() should be init
> 
>       WARNING: drivers/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text:eisa_root_register from .text between 'pci_eisa_init' (at
> offset 0xabf670) and 'virtual_eisa_release'
> 
>     AFAIK a PCI to EISA bridge isn't anything hotpluggable, so
>     pci_eisa_init() can become __init.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
>     Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> 
> 
> To gain a few bytes, 'pci_eisa_init' is freed, but its reference is
> kept in `pci_eisa_driver' which triggers the warning. The commit log
> points out that PCI to EISA should not be hotpluggable, so it is not
> expected to be ever executed again (which would trigger a crash).

This was not for gaining a few bytes, and I'm not exactly seeing why I'm 
to blame here, since my patch is invariant to what your patch does:

Calling pci_eisa_init outside of __init:
- might have crashed before my patch and
- after my patch and
- after your patch
since eisa_root_register() is __init.

> Marking `pci_eisa_driver' as __refdata fix the warning and leave the
> struct untouched:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/eisa/pci_eisa.c b/drivers/eisa/pci_eisa.c
> index 30da70d..cdae207 100644
> --- a/drivers/eisa/pci_eisa.c
> +++ b/drivers/eisa/pci_eisa.c
> @@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ static int __init pci_eisa_init(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>         return 0;
>  }
> 
> -static struct pci_device_id __initdata pci_eisa_pci_tbl[] = {
> +static struct pci_device_id pci_eisa_pci_tbl[] = {
>         { PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID,
>           PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_EISA << 8, 0xffff00, 0 },
>         { 0, }
>  };
> 
> -static struct pci_driver __initdata pci_eisa_driver = {
> +static struct pci_driver __refdata pci_eisa_driver = {
>         .name           = "pci_eisa",
>         .id_table       = pci_eisa_pci_tbl,
>         .probe          = pci_eisa_init,

So the commit that broke it was not mine, but

commit 005bdad7b80ac017ca21d795639d4214b9844a84
Author: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Date:   Mon Jul 25 17:13:04 2011 -0700

    eisa/pci_eisa.c: fix section mismatch
    
    Fixes
    
      WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x15d3ac): Section mismatch in reference from the
      The variable pci_eisa_driver references the function __init pci_eisa_init(
      If the reference is valid then annotate the variable with __init* or __ref
      *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console
    
    Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
    Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>



Please don't blame me for bugs you introduced.


>  - Arnaud

cu
Adrian

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