Hello,
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Segher Boessenkool" <seg...@kernel.crashing.org>
> To: "Vladis Dronov" <vdro...@redhat.com>
> Cc: linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org, "Aneesh Kumar K . V"
> <aneesh.ku...@linux.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
> "Paul Mackerras" <pau...@samba.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 4:49:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section
> mismatch warnings with gcc-10
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 03:37:41PM +0200, Vladis Dronov wrote:
> > Certain warnings are emitted for powerpc code when building with a gcc-10
> > toolset:
> >
> > WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x377c): Section mismatch in
> > reference from the function remove_pmd_table() to the function
> > .meminit.text:split_kernel_mapping()
> > The function remove_pmd_table() references
> > the function __meminit split_kernel_mapping().
> > This is often because remove_pmd_table lacks a __meminit
> > annotation or the annotation of split_kernel_mapping is wrong.
> >
> > Add the appropriate __init and __meminit annotations to make modpost not
> > complain. In all the cases there are just a single callsite from another
> > __init or __meminit function:
> >
> > __meminit remove_pagetable() -> remove_pud_table() -> remove_pmd_table()
> > __init prom_init() -> setup_secure_guest()
> > __init xive_spapr_init() -> xive_spapr_disabled()
>
> So what changed? These functions were inlined with older compilers, but
> not anymore?
Yes, exactly. Gcc-10 does not inline them anymore. If this is because of my
build system, this can happen to others also.
The same thing was fixed by Linus in e99332e7b4cd ("gcc-10: mark more functions
__init to avoid section mismatch warnings").
>
> Segher
Best regards,
Vladis Dronov | Red Hat, Inc. | The Core Kernel | Senior Software Engineer
