linux-kernel - Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?

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Message-Id: <200802011210.52655.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:10:52 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?

On Friday 01 February 2008 11:47:18 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> James said in a related posting that the Section mismatch
> warnings were getting out of control.

My question is: where are crashes? If the sections were
really in such bad shape and since we poison (and sometimes
even unmap) init after boot we should in theory see a lot 
of oops reports from this if there were really accesses to
them after boot.

Where are they?


> The total figure for this build is 106 warnings.

The interesting question is how many true bugs are in these warnings.

-Andi
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