linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] clk: don't mark clkdev_add

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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:05:09 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	"Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	arm@...nel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] clk: don't mark clkdev_add_table as init

On Friday 12 October 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:13:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > s3c2440_clk_add is a subsys_interface method and calls clkdev_add_table,
> > which means we might be calling it after the __init section is
> > discarded.
> > 
> > Without this patch, building mini2440_defconfig results in:
> > 
> > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x9848): Section mismatch in reference from the function s3c2440_clk_add() to the function .init.text:clkdev_add_table()
> > The function s3c2440_clk_add() references
> > the function __init clkdev_add_table().
> > This is often because s3c2440_clk_add lacks a __init
> > annotation or the annotation of clkdev_add_table is wrong.
> 
> I'm not sure this is the right thing to do.  I suspect this comes from the
> stupidly complex samsung code, and that this is actually safe - I suspect
> that s3c2440_clk_add() needs to be appropriately marked, but then you end
> up having to trace its call path through various structures etc.

Yes, you are right. I have verified now that the only code path into
s3c2440_clk_add() is from "int __init s3c2440_init(void)", so 
s3c2440_clk_add can be marked __init_refok.

I'll follow up with a new patch to replace this one.

	Arnd
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