On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 05:08:59PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 02:55:19PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Instead of declaring root_device_name as a global variable pass it as an > > argument to the functions using it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > This patch results in the following build error when trying to build > xtensa:tinyconfig. > > WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: strcpy.isra.0+0x14 (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level_names (section: .init.data) > ERROR: modpost: Section mismatches detected. I can reproduce these with gcc 13.1 on xtensa, but the report makes no sense to me. If I disable CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE it now reports a similar warning for put_page intead of strcpy which seems just as arcance.