linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ia64: fix a few section mismatch warnings

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Message-ID: <20070728061551.GA21626@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:15:51 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: fix a few section mismatch warnings

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:32:13PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> -		mca_data = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct ia64_mca_cpu)
> -					 * NR_CPUS + KERNEL_STACK_SIZE);
> +		mca_data = mca_bootmem(NR_CPUS + KERNEL_STACK_SIZE);
> 
> Oops.  You moved the multiply by sizeof(struct ia64_mca_cpu) up into
> the mca_bootmem() function to make it very specific to this use. But
> mutiply has higher precedence than addition.

Oh crap - good catch.
Shall I resubmit a corrected patch?

	Sam
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