On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:15:53AM -0700, Xiang Wang wrote: > Hi Ted, > > I tried to apply this patch to our kernel, but I encountered some > problems in building the kernel: > > FATAL: fs/ext4/ext4.o(.text+0x24f2d): Section mismatch in reference > from the function exit_ext4_mballoc() to the function > .exit.text:ext4_remove_debugfs_entry() > > Looking at the code, the problem seems to be that, exit_ext4_mballoc > calls ext4_remove_debugfs_entry. And ext4_remove_debugfs_entry has the > "__exit" annotation while exit_ext4_mballoc does not. I tried removing > the "__exit" annotation from ext4_remove_debugfs_entry and it builds > well. Good catch; I didn't notice because I wasn't compiling with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y. Your fix is the right one. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
