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Message-ID: <CAK7LNASdOhcTqbnRibPumMH1o+78dxBjLuzLK+JS+AiHyTiY6A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Dec 2022 07:35:59 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] padata: Do not mark padata_mt_helper() as __init

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 4:02 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> When building arm64 allmodconfig + ThinLTO with clang and a proposed
> modpost update to account for -ffuncton-sections, the following warning
> appears:
>
>   WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: padata_work_init (section: .text.padata_work_init) -> padata_mt_helper (section: .init.text)
>   WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: padata_work_init (section: .text.padata_work_init) -> padata_mt_helper (section: .init.text)
>
> In both cases, an __init function calls padata_work_init(), which is not
> marked __init, with padata_mt_helper(), another __init function, as a
> work function argument.
>
> padata_work_init() is called from non-init paths, otherwise it could be
> marked __init to resolve the warning. Instead, remove __init from
> padata_mt_helper() to resolve the warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> ---
> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
> Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  kernel/padata.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
> index e5819bb8bd1d..c2271d7e446d 100644
> --- a/kernel/padata.c
> +++ b/kernel/padata.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct padata_mt_job_state {
>  };
>
>  static void padata_free_pd(struct parallel_data *pd);
> -static void __init padata_mt_helper(struct work_struct *work);
> +static void padata_mt_helper(struct work_struct *work);
>
>  static int padata_index_to_cpu(struct parallel_data *pd, int cpu_index)
>  {
> @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static int padata_setup_cpumasks(struct padata_instance *pinst)
>         return err;
>  }
>
> -static void __init padata_mt_helper(struct work_struct *w)
> +static void padata_mt_helper(struct work_struct *w)
>  {
>         struct padata_work *pw = container_of(w, struct padata_work, pw_work);
>         struct padata_mt_job_state *ps = pw->pw_data;
> --
> 2.38.1
>

This patch seems wrong.

padata_work_init() does not reference to padata_mt_helper()


padata_work_alloc_mt() and padata_do_multithreaded() do.








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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada