On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:26:57PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 19:14 -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.text+0xc80): Section mismatch in > > reference from the function boot_secondary() to the variable > > .init.text:msm_secondary_startup > > The function __cpuinit boot_secondary() references a variable > > __init msm_secondary_startup. If msm_secondary_startup is only > > used by boot_secondary then annotate msm_secondary_startup with > > a matching annotation. > > Description is pretty gross.. Can you just explain how the section > mismatch is happening. That's the error message, which is explanitory. mem_secondary_startup is in the __init section, which is always discarded. boot_secondary is in the __cpuinit section, which may or may not be discarded, and if CPU hotplug is enabled, may be called after the __init section has been discarded. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html