linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86: silence section mismatch warning in smpboot

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:10:38 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: silence section mismatch warning in smpboot_64.c

Silence the following warning:
WARNING: o-x86_64/arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x17cd3): Section mismatch in reference from the function remove_cpu_from_maps() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpu_initialized

remove_cpu:maps() had a single user: __cpu_disable() so
mark it static and annotate it with __ref to silence the
warning from modpost.

_cpu_disable() has a single user in kernel/cpu.c:
 => take_cpu_down()
    which again has a single user in the following call:
    => __stop_machine_run(take_cpu_down, &tcd_param, cpu);
Here a kthread is created.

So maybe the warning is correct and the right fix is to
remove the __cpuinitdata annotation of cpu_initialized?

Note: The analysis were disturbed by the fact that we had a variable
      with the same name in cpu/common.c - but this is 32 bit only]
Note: Should smpboot_64 use cpu_clear()?

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c
index cc64b80..d53bd6f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c
@@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ static void remove_siblinginfo(int cpu)
 	cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_sibling_setup_map);
 }
 
-void remove_cpu_from_maps(void)
+static void __ref remove_cpu_from_maps(void)
 {
 	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
-- 
1.5.4.rc3.14.g44397

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