linux-kernel - WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: mem_alloc_profiling_enabled+0x18 (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level

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Message-ID: <202506101608.NmYI7eVO-lkp@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:49:16 +0800
From: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc: oe-kbuild-all@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference:
 mem_alloc_profiling_enabled+0x18 (section: .text.unlikely) ->
 initcall_level_names (section: .init.data)

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head:   f09079bd04a924c72d555cd97942d5f8d7eca98c
commit: 07438779313caafe52ac1a1a6958d735a5938988 alloc_tag: avoid current->alloc_tag manipulations when profiling is disabled
date:   5 months ago
config: xtensa-randconfig-r051-20250610 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250610/202506101608.NmYI7eVO-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: xtensa-linux-gcc (GCC) 8.5.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250610/202506101608.NmYI7eVO-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/202506101608.NmYI7eVO-lkp@intel.com/

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

>> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: mem_alloc_profiling_enabled+0x18 (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level_names (section: .init.data)
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.o

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