Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2021 10:02:54 +0100 | From | Lorenzo Pieralisi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] acpi: arm64: fix section mismatch warning |
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 03:03:29PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > Hi Arnd, > > On 2021/9/27 22:19, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > > > In a gcc-11 randconfig build I came across this warning: > > > > WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x2c084): Section mismatch in reference from the function next_platform_timer() to the variable .init.data:acpi_gtdt_desc > > The function next_platform_timer() references > > the variable __initdata acpi_gtdt_desc. > > This is often because next_platform_timer lacks a __initdata > > annotation or the annotation of acpi_gtdt_desc is wrong. > > > > This happens when next_platform_timer() fails to get inlined > > despite the inline annotation. Adding '__init' solves the issue, > > and it seems best to remove the 'inline' in the process seems > > better anyway. > > There was a patch to fix this issue as well [1], > but not merged yet. > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/7f29a149-e005-f13f-2cc4-a9eb737107e1@huawei.com/T/
My bad, we did not coordinate well - I noticed your Acked-by but as a rule we should also CC LAKML and Catalin/Will (if they aren't CCed) on the reply to make sure they can actually see it.
Lorenzo
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