From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757636AbYASVps (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:45:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751569AbYASVpl (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:45:41 -0500 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:53466 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751292AbYASVpl (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:45:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:45:49 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Randy Dunlap Cc: LKML , akpm Subject: Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings Message-ID: <20080119214549.GH29070@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080106140728.GA3504@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080119115255.d114065f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20080119212242.GC29070@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080119212242.GC29070@uranus.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > > > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x43524): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'msleep') > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4c6f6): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'rcu_cpu_notify' and 'wakeme_after_rcu') > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x51cbe): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'hrtimer_cpu_notify' and 'down_read_trylock') > > > > I'll post patches for the 3 above. However, the rcu code in -mm > > is quite different, so the rcu patch may have a short life. > > Hi Randy. > > Thanks for your efforts! And I just reviewd the three patches. All oops triggers under special conditions. It is stuff like this that makes me wonder why some people still say that the Section mismatch warnings are not worth fixing?!?!? Sam