Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Fixing __cpuinit/__init tangle.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 10:44:17 EST



* Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Impact: Fixing __cpuinit/__init tangle.
>
> This patch removes the following section mismatch warning. A patch set
> was send previously (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/10/407). But
> introduce some other problem, reported by Rufus
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/11/46). Then Ingo Molnar suggest that,
> it's best to remove __init from xsave_cntxt_init(void). Which is the
> second patch in this series. Now, this one removes the following
> warning.
>
> WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.cpuinit.text+0x2237): Section
> mismatch in reference from the function cpu_init() to the function
> .init.text:init_thread_xstate()
> The function __cpuinit cpu_init() references
> a function __init init_thread_xstate().
> If init_thread_xstate is only used by cpu_init then
> annotate init_thread_xstate with a matching annotation.
>
> Thanks.

applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Rakib!

Ingo
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