linux-kernel - Avoid section mismatch involving arch_register

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Message-ID: <20080201145649.GA12318@mailshack.com>
Date:	Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:56:50 +0100
From:	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>
Subject: Avoid section mismatch involving arch_register_cpu

Avoid section mismatch involving arch_register_cpu.

Marking arch_register_cpu as __init and removing the export
for non-hotplug-cpu configurations makes the following warning
go away:

Section mismatch in reference from the function 
arch_register_cpu() to the function .devinit.text:register_cpu()
The function  arch_register_cpu() references
the function __devinit register_cpu().
This is often because arch_register_cpu lacks a __devinit 
annotation or the annotation of register_cpu is wrong.

The only external user of arch_register_cpu in the tree is
in drivers/acpi/processor_core.c where it is guarded by
ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU (which depends on HOTPLUG_CPU).

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>


diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/topology.c b/arch/x86/kernel/topology.c
index 78cbb65..e6757aa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/topology.c
@@ -57,11 +57,10 @@ void arch_unregister_cpu(int num)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_unregister_cpu);
 #else
-int arch_register_cpu(int num)
+static int __init arch_register_cpu(int num)
 {
 	return register_cpu(&per_cpu(cpu_devices, num).cpu, num);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_register_cpu);
 #endif /*CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU*/
 
 static int __init topology_init(void)
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/cpu.h b/include/asm-x86/cpu.h
index 85ece5f..73f2ea8 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/cpu.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/cpu.h
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
 struct x86_cpu {
 	struct cpu cpu;
 };
-extern int arch_register_cpu(int num);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+extern int arch_register_cpu(int num);
 extern void arch_unregister_cpu(int);
 #endif

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