linux-kernel - WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: tracing_gen_ctx+0x64 (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level

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Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 22:02:25 +0800
From: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: oe-kbuild-all@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference:
 tracing_gen_ctx+0x64 (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level_names
 (section: .init.data)

Hi Masahiro,

FYI, the error/warning still remains.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head:   c760b3725e52403dc1b28644fb09c47a83cacea6
commit: 481461f5109919babbb393d6f68002936b8e2493 linux/export.h: make <linux/export.h> independent of CONFIG_MODULES
date:   10 months ago
config: xtensa-randconfig-r121-20240523 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20240523/202405232113.H66VwtsE-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: xtensa-linux-gcc (GCC) 13.2.0
reproduce: (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20240523/202405232113.H66VwtsE-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202405232113.H66VwtsE-lkp@intel.com/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>, old ones prefixed by <<):

WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in vmlinux.o
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: put_page+0x4c (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level_names (section: .init.data)
>> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: tracing_gen_ctx+0x64 (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level_names (section: .init.data)

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