linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] clk: don't mark clkdev_add

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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:15:35 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	arm@...nel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] clk: don't mark clkdev_add_table as init

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:13:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> s3c2440_clk_add is a subsys_interface method and calls clkdev_add_table,
> which means we might be calling it after the __init section is
> discarded.
> 
> Without this patch, building mini2440_defconfig results in:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x9848): Section mismatch in reference from the function s3c2440_clk_add() to the function .init.text:clkdev_add_table()
> The function s3c2440_clk_add() references
> the function __init clkdev_add_table().
> This is often because s3c2440_clk_add lacks a __init
> annotation or the annotation of clkdev_add_table is wrong.

I'm not sure this is the right thing to do.  I suspect this comes from the
stupidly complex samsung code, and that this is actually safe - I suspect
that s3c2440_clk_add() needs to be appropriately marked, but then you end
up having to trace its call path through various structures etc.
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