On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 05:55:49PM +0100, Ilya Leoshkevich wrote:
> Building the kernel on s390 with -Og produces the following warning:
>
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x28dabe): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_section_memmap() to the function .meminit.text:__populate_section_memmap()
> The function populate_section_memmap() references
> the function __meminit __populate_section_memmap().
> This is often because populate_section_memmap lacks a __meminit
> annotation or the annotation of __populate_section_memmap is wrong.
>
> While -Og is not supported, in theory this might still happen with
> another compiler or on another architecture. So fix this by using the
> correct section annotations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/sparse.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index f6891c1992b1..0f1f36443a96 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ static unsigned long __init section_map_size(void)
> return PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION);
> }
>
> -struct page __init *__populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
> +struct page __meminit *__populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
> unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
> {
> unsigned long size = section_map_size();
> @@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ void offline_mem_sections(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
> #endif
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> -static struct page *populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
> +static struct page * __meminit populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
> unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
> {
> return __populate_section_memmap(pfn, nr_pages, nid, altmap);
> @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap)
> vmemmap_free(start, end, NULL);
> }
> #else
> -struct page *populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
> +struct page * __meminit populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
> unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
> {
> struct page *page, *ret;
I did not really check deep, but I __think__ you only need to add __meminit in
populate_section_memmap functions.
__populate_section_memmap for SPARSE case is only used at init phase.
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3
