linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] i386: make apic probe function non-init

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Message-ID: <20061227115022.GB22606@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:20:22 +0530
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
To:	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Morton Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] i386: make apic probe function non-init



o struct genapic contains pointer to probe() function which is of type
  __init. Hence MODPOST generates warning if kernel is compiled with
  CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y for i386.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_summit' (at offset 0xc058b504) and 'apic_bigsmp'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_bigsmp' (at offset 0xc058b5a4) and 'cpu.4471'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_es7000' (at offset 0xc058b644) and 'apic_default'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_default' (at offset 0xc058b6e4) and 'interrupt'

o One of the possible options is to put special case check in MODPOST to
  not emit warnings for this case but I think it is not a very good option
  in terms of maintenance.

o Another option is to make probe() function non __init. Anyway this function
  is really small so not freeing this memory after init is not a big deal.
  Secondly, from a programming perspective, probably genapic should not
  provide pointers to functions which have been freed as genapic is non
  __init and is used even after initialization is complete. 

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
---

 arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c  |    2 +-
 arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c |    2 +-
 arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c  |    2 +-
 arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c  |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c
--- linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc/arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init	2006-12-27 16:24:58.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc-root/arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c	2006-12-27 16:24:58.000000000 +0530
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata b
 };
 
 
-static __init int probe_bigsmp(void)
+static int probe_bigsmp(void)
 { 
 	if (def_to_bigsmp)
         	dmi_bigsmp = 1;
diff -puN arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c
--- linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc/arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init	2006-12-27 16:24:58.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc-root/arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c	2006-12-27 16:24:58.000000000 +0530
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #include <asm/mach-default/mach_mpparse.h>
 
 /* should be called last. */
-static __init int probe_default(void)
+static int probe_default(void)
 { 
 	return 1;
 } 
diff -puN arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c
--- linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc/arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init	2006-12-27 16:24:58.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc-root/arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c	2006-12-27 16:24:58.000000000 +0530
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #include <asm/mach-es7000/mach_mpparse.h>
 #include <asm/mach-es7000/mach_wakecpu.h>
 
-static __init int probe_es7000(void)
+static int probe_es7000(void)
 {
 	/* probed later in mptable/ACPI hooks */
 	return 0;
diff -puN arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c
--- linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc/arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init	2006-12-27 16:24:58.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc-root/arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c	2006-12-27 16:24:58.000000000 +0530
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #include <asm/mach-summit/mach_ipi.h>
 #include <asm/mach-summit/mach_mpparse.h>
 
-static __init int probe_summit(void)
+static int probe_summit(void)
 { 
 	/* probed later in mptable/ACPI hooks */
 	return 0;
_
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