Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Loongson64: Fix section mismatch warning

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Tue Jul 05 2022 - 06:40:52 EST


On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:07:13PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> prom_init_numa_memory() is annotated __init and not used by any module,
> thus don't export it.
>
> Remove not needed EXPORT_SYMBOL for prom_init_numa_memory() to fix the
> following section mismatch warning:
>
> LD vmlinux.o
> MODPOST vmlinux.symvers
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(___ksymtab+prom_init_numa_memory+0x0): Section mismatch in reference
> from the variable __ksymtab_prom_init_numa_memory to the function .init.text:prom_init_numa_memory()
> The symbol prom_init_numa_memory is exported and annotated __init
> Fix this by removing the __init annotation of prom_init_numa_memory or drop the export.
>
> This is build on Linux 5.19-rc4.
>
> Fixes: 6fbde6b492df ("MIPS: Loongson64: Move files to the top-level directory")
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v2: update the commit message and add Fixes tag
>
> arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c b/arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c
> index 69a5331..8f61e93 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/loongson64/numa.c
> @@ -196,7 +196,6 @@ void __init prom_init_numa_memory(void)
> pr_info("CP0_PageGrain: CP0 5.1 (0x%x)\n", read_c0_pagegrain());
> prom_meminit();
> }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(prom_init_numa_memory);
>
> pg_data_t * __init arch_alloc_nodedata(int nid)
> {
> --
> 2.1.0

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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