linux-kernel - Re: section mismatches

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Message-ID: <46537996.20302@goop.org>
Date:	Wed, 23 May 2007 00:15:34 +0100
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: section mismatches

Andrew Morton wrote:
> WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02fe884): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext')
> WARNING: vmlinux(.data+0xc0439099): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:xen_start_kernel (between 'startup_xen' and 'boot_gdt_descr')
>   

This is safe, but I'll clean it up.  I'll also have a look at iret_exc,
some of which might be Xen-related.  Actually, iret_exc is in the fixup
section, but it gets used from several places, so it might be worth just
making it .text.

    J
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