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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1] microblaze: tag highmem_setup() with __meminit
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On 3/2/21 10:04 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 01.03.21 23:18, Oscar Salvador wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 12:47:49PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> With commit a0cd7a7c4bc0 ("mm: simplify free_highmem_page() and
>>> free_reserved_page()") the kernel test robot complains about a warning:
>>>
>>> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x23ac): Section mismatch in
>>>    reference from the function highmem_setup() to the function
>>>    .meminit.text:memblock_is_reserved()
>>>
>>> This has been broken ever since microblaze added highmem support,
>>> because memblock_is_reserved() was already tagged with "__init" back
>>> then -
>>> most probably the function always got inlined, so we never stumbled over
>>> it.
>>
>> It might be good to point out that we need __meminit instead of __init
>> because microblaze platform does not define CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK,
>> and __init_memblock fallsback to that.
>>
>> (I had to go and look as I was puzzled :-) )
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Whoever feels like picking this up (@Andrew?) can you add
>
> "We need __meminit because __init_memblock defaults to that without
> CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK" and __init_memblock is not used outside
> memblock code.
>

Applied with this line added.

Thanks,
Michal


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