On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 03:03:29PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > Hi Arnd, > > On 2021/9/27 22:19, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > > > In a gcc-11 randconfig build I came across this warning: > > > > WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x2c084): Section mismatch in reference from the function next_platform_timer() to the variable .init.data:acpi_gtdt_desc > > The function next_platform_timer() references > > the variable __initdata acpi_gtdt_desc. > > This is often because next_platform_timer lacks a __initdata > > annotation or the annotation of acpi_gtdt_desc is wrong. > > > > This happens when next_platform_timer() fails to get inlined > > despite the inline annotation. Adding '__init' solves the issue, > > and it seems best to remove the 'inline' in the process seems > > better anyway. > > There was a patch to fix this issue as well [1], > but not merged yet. > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/7f29a149-e005-f13f-2cc4-a9eb737107e1@xxxxxxxxxx/T/ I haven't seen this one, it was on linux-acpi list which I don't follow. I usually rely you, Lorenzo or Sudeep to ack such patches and cc Will/me. -- Catalin
