linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: adjust the section prefixes

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:15:23 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: adjust the section prefixes

On 20/09/19 23:24, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Adjusts the section prefixes of some KVM common code function because
> with the monolithic methods the section checker can now do a more
> accurate analysis at build time and this allows to build without
> CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY=n.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>

I think it's the opposite---the checker is detecting *missing* section
prefixes, for example vmx_exit, kvm_exit, kvm_arch_hardware_unsetup etc.
could be marked __exit.

Paolo