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Date:	Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:23:47 +0530
From:	Vineet Gupta <vineetg76@...il.com>
To:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	noamc@...hip.com
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arc: kernel: remove '__init' for first_lines_of_secondary()

On 10/23/2013 07:46 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
> first_lines_of_secondary() is a '__init' function, but it may be called
> by __cpu_up() by _cpu_up() by cpu_up() which is a normal export symbol
> function. So recommend to remove '__init'.
> 
> The related warning (with allmodconfig):
> 
>     MODPOST vmlinux.o
>   WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x315c): Section mismatch in reference from the function __cpu_up() to the function .init.text:first_lines_of_secondary()
>   The function __cpu_up() references
>   the function __init first_lines_of_secondary().
>   This is often because __cpu_up lacks a __init
>   annotation or the annotation of first_lines_of_secondary is wrong.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>

Applied for 3.13. But I'm planning to squash all the __init section annotation
fixes into one patch. OK with you ?

Thx,
-Vineet
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