Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC:kernel: section mismatch from smp_release_cpus to __initdata spinning_secondaries

From: Chen Gang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:28:43 +0800

Hello Maintainers:

  could you help check this patch whether is ok ?

  thanks.

On 2013年03月20日 14:30, Chen Gang wrote:
> 
>   the smp_release_cpus is a normal funciton and called in normal environments,
>   but it calls the __initdata spinning_secondaries.
>   need modify spinning_secondaries to match smp_release_cpus.
> 
> the related warning:
>   (the linker report boot_paca.33377, but it should be spinning_secondaries)
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x23176): Section mismatch in reference from the function .smp_release_cpus() to the variable .init.data:boot_paca.33377
> The function .smp_release_cpus() references
> the variable __initdata boot_paca.33377.
> This is often because .smp_release_cpus lacks a __initdata 
> annotation or the annotation of boot_paca.33377 is wrong.
> 
> WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x231fe): Section mismatch in reference from the function .smp_release_cpus() to the variable .init.data:boot_paca.33377
> The function .smp_release_cpus() references
> the variable __initdata boot_paca.33377.
> This is often because .smp_release_cpus lacks a __initdata 
> annotation or the annotation of boot_paca.33377 is wrong.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> index 75fbaceb..e8a2f2e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
>  #endif
>  
>  int boot_cpuid = 0;
> -int __initdata spinning_secondaries;
> +int spinning_secondaries;
>  u64 ppc64_pft_size;
>  
>  /* Pick defaults since we might want to patch instructions
> 

-- 
Chen Gang

Asianux Corporation