After commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly"), a compiler may choose not to inline a function marked with just 'inline'. If check_bugs() is not inlined into start_kernel(), which occurs when building with clang after commit 9ea7e6b62c2b ("init: Mark [arch_call_]rest_init() __noreturn"), modpost complains with: WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: check_bugs (section: .text) -> check_bugs32 (section: .init.text) check_bugs() is only called from start_kernel(), which itself is marked __init, so mark check_bugs() as __init as well to clear up the warning and make everything work properly. While there is currently no warning about check_bugs_early(), it could have the same problem, as it is called from arch_setup() and calls check_bugs64_early(), both marked __init. Mark it as __init for the same reason as above. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- NOTE: This is based on v6.3-rc7, as the issue shows up due to a patch in the tip tree, but this appears to be an ancient issue that could have showed up at any point (hence why no explicit Fixes tag), so I chose a base that should allow either the MIPS or tip folks to apply this patch. Additionally, I was tempted to remove the explicit 'inline' since the compiler is free to do whatever it wants anyways but this is a static function in a header so we would need to add '__maybe_unused', which is already added with 'inline' in a normal build so I just left it alone. --- arch/mips/include/asm/bugs.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/bugs.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/bugs.h index d72dc6e1cf3c..9b9bf9bc7d24 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/bugs.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/bugs.h @@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ extern void check_bugs64_early(void); extern void check_bugs32(void); extern void check_bugs64(void); -static inline void check_bugs_early(void) +static inline void __init check_bugs_early(void) { if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_R4X00_BUGS64)) check_bugs64_early(); } -static inline void check_bugs(void) +static inline void __init check_bugs(void) { unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id(); --- base-commit: 6a8f57ae2eb07ab39a6f0ccad60c760743051026 change-id: 20230419-mips-check_bugs-init-attribute-026103bdb255 Best regards, -- Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>