Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> After commit 4dc70b711dbc ("memory tier: consolidate the initialization
> of memory tiers"), there is a modpost warning when
> hmat_set_default_dram_perf() is not inlined into its callsite, as it
> appears that default_dram_nodes may be accessed after its memory has
> been freed.
>
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: hmat_set_default_dram_perf+0x18 (section: .text) -> default_dram_nodes (section: .init.data)
>
> The single callsite, hmat_init(), is __init, so this warning is not a
> problem in reality but it is easily solvable by marking
> hmat_set_default_dram_perf() as __init, which should have been done when
> this function was added in commit 3718c02dbd4c ("acpi, hmat: calculate
> abstract distance with HMAT").
Good catch! Thanks for your fix! If it's necessary, feel free to add
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202406292310.hlRATeZJ-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I left off a fixes tag as I assume this is going to be squashed into the
> former change mentioned above, as it is still in mm-unstable, but feel
> free to add one if the patch is going to be standalone.
> ---
> drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c b/drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c
> index a2f9e7a4b479..ca0c0ea3e1ef 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c
> @@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ static int hmat_callback(struct notifier_block *self,
> return NOTIFY_OK;
> }
>
> -static int hmat_set_default_dram_perf(void)
> +static __init int hmat_set_default_dram_perf(void)
> {
> int rc;
> int nid, pxm;
>
> ---
> base-commit: 17bcc624e67da6383060ee24483db77aa17276aa
> change-id: 20240710-fix-modpost-warning-default_dram_nodes-38b6faffe3da
>
> Best regards,
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Best Regards,
Huang, Ying
