linux-kernel - Re: Please include const-sections into linux-next

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Date:	Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:03:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please include const-sections into linux-next

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, James Bottomley wrote:

> It's not incredibly trivial: it causes a compile failure on parisc:
> 
> mm/percpu.c:1372: error: __setup_str_percpu_alloc_setup causes a section
> type conflict
> make[1]: *** [mm/percpu.o] Error 1
> 
> I have no idea why, though.
> 

Not sure why this would only happen on parisc, but I haven't looked at it 
closely.  It means something qualified with const is being defined in a 
section with other definitions that are not const, or vice versa.

For example:

	static int x __attribute__((__section__("foo"))) = 1;
	static const int y __attribute__((__section__("foo"))) = 2;

will result in the same error.  Since __setup_param() places 
__setup_str_percpu_alloc_setup in .init.rodata as const, it means 
something else has already been defined in .init.rodata without being 
qualified as such.
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