Re: [PATCH] mm: setup_usemap() must be __meminit

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Feb 18 2008 - 15:58:24 EST


On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:38:55PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:31:14PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > On m68k (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is not set), I get:
> > > >
> > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.meminit.text+0x36c): Section mismatch in reference from the function free_area_init_core() to the function .init.text:setup_usemap()
> > > > The function __meminit free_area_init_core() references
> > > > a function __init setup_usemap().
> > > > If free_area_init_core is only used by setup_usemap then
> > > > annotate free_area_init_core with a matching annotation.
> > > >
> > > > If CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is set, the problem is not noticed because setup_usemap()
> > > > is always inlined.
> > > >
> > > > Properly annotating setup_usemap() and usemap_size() fixes it.
> > >
> > > Woops, hit the send button too soon.
> > >
> > > setup_usemap() calls alloc_bootmem_node(), causing a whole new
> > > avalanche of warnings to be fixed up :-(
> >
> > Something you like me to help with?
>
> Yes, that would be nice.

I tried the patch posted by Alexander previously.
After reviewing it for some time I convinced myself the
patch is correct (has stayed in my to-be-looked-at queue for a while).

See:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/3/129

I will ask Andrew to take it.

Sam
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