Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:45:07 +1100 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the powerpc tree |
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Hi Michael,
On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:06:51 +1100 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 16:21 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > After merging the powerpc tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc > > allyesconfig) produced this warning: > > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x9367c): Section mismatch in reference from the function .msi_bitmap_alloc() to the function .init.text:.memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid() > > The function .msi_bitmap_alloc() references > > the function __init .memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid(). > > This is often because .msi_bitmap_alloc lacks a __init > > annotation or the annotation of .memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid is wrong. > > > > Introduced (probably) by commit > > > > cb2d3883c603 ("powerpc/msi: Free the bitmap if it was slab allocated") > > Yeah that's correct, though it should be safe in practice. > > I'm not sure why you only saw that now though, the patch has been in next since > the 13th of October.
I don't always notice new warnings immediately among all the others :-(
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
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