linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/xen/time: fix section mismatch for xen_init_time

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Date:   Sat, 6 Jan 2018 12:35:45 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
To:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/xen/time: fix section mismatch for xen_init_time_ops()

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:00 AM, Boris Ostrovsky
<boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com> wrote:
> On 01/02/2018 09:32 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 02/01/18 14:24, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> On 02/01/18 15:18, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>> On 12/23/2017 09:50 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>>>>> The header declares this function as __init but is defined in __ref
>>>>> section.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
>>>> AFAIK section attributes in header files are ignored by compiler anyway
>>>> so I'd remove all of them.
>>> Hmm, I'm not sure all future compilers will ignore the section
>>> attributes. include/linux/init.h explictily mentions where to put
>>> the attrubute in a prototype, so I'd rather keep it.
>> Attributes in the declaration are for static analysis tools such as sparse.
>>
>> How else are you going to work out whether a section mismatch has occurred?
>
> Isn't this done based on definitions?
>
> Tons of __init routines don't have the attribute specified in header
> files. In fact, even in this file (arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h) there are
> some that don't have it.
>
> -boris

What are the next steps for getting this patch merged? This is the
only function for which I get a compiler warning (with Clang).  Do you
require a patch instead that changes more function attributes, or can
that be a follow up patch?