Re: 2.6.28-rc6: hpet: object is on stack, but not annotated

[Alexander Beregalov]

2008/12/4 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>:
> On Mon 2008-11-24 19:17:44, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>>
>> > 2008/11/24 Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > > hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0
>> > > hpet0: 3 comparators, 64-bit 14.318180 MHz counter
>> > > ODEBUG: object is on stack, but not annotated
>> > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> > > WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:251 __debug_object_init+0x2a4/0x352()
>> >
>> > Bisected down to 26afe5f2fbf06ea0765aaa316640c4dd472310c0
>> > (x86: HPET_MSI Initialise per-cpu HPET timers)
>> >
>> > Revert helps
>>
>> That's just a warning about a missing annotation. The commit is fine.
>
> You must be using very different metric of what "fine" means than rest
> of the world.
>
> (No, introducing WARN_ON()s is not fine; it spams kerneloops.org at least...)

The warning is still here on 2.6.29-rc1.
It taints the kernel.
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