[patch for v2.6.24] fix section mismatch warning in page_alloc.c

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 17:13:26 EST



* Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [PATCH] mm: fix section mismatch warning in page_alloc.c
>
> With CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y we saw following
> warning: WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x6864): Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: (between 'process_zones' and
> 'pageset_cpuup_callback')
>
> The culprint was zone_batchsize() which were annotated __devinit but
> used from process_zones() which is annotated __cpuinit.
> zone_batchsize() are used from another function annotated __meminit so
> the only valid option is to drop the annotation of zone_batchsize() so
> we know it is always valid to use it.

Andrew: a v2.6.24 mm fix i think.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo
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