linux-kernel - Lots of unexpected non-allocatable section warnings

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Date:	Sun, 3 May 2009 11:05:17 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	Anders Kaseorg <andersk@....edu>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Lots of unexpected non-allocatable section warnings

Hi Anders, Sam,

After your fix "kbuild, modpost: Check the section flags, to catch
missing ax/aw", I get a lot of warnings like the following during
modpost on x86-64:

WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.o (.comment.SUSE.OPTs): unexpected non-allocatable section.
Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?
Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains
section definitions for use in .S files.

Apparently there's one such warning for every module on my system, that
is, 907. That's a lot, and pretty annoying. How do I solve this? I don't
know much about assembly.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
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