* On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:13:23AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 03:46:46AM +0530, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote:* On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:49:48AM +0100, Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 04:55 +0530, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote: >>[Sorry if duplicate, one earlier was corrupt]
>>Hi, >> I got section mismatches reported by modpost in latest build. It got >> reported for xen_register_pirq and xen_unplug_emulated_devices >> functions.
>> xen_register_pirq makes reference to >> acpi_sci_override_gsi in init.data section; marking >> xen_register_pirq with __init is not feasible since calls are made >> to it from acpi_register_gsi in non-init contexts. So marking it >> __refdata based on assumption that when acpi_sci_override_gsi is >> referenced, it is in early stages where it is alive.
>I don't think this assumption holds, since xen_register_pirq can be >called at any time and basically unconditionally references >acpi_sci_override_gsi.
Yeah, that has been my guess as well, however I am not privy to the inner workings of Xen, so was not sure.
>If we don't want to remove the __init from acpi_sci_override_gsi then >perhaps xen_setup_acpi_sci needs to stash it somewhere?
>Or maybe xen_register_pirq could take an "int force_irq" which, if not >-1, would force a particular IRQ. The callsite in xen_setup_acpi_sci >(actually via xen_register_gsi so the param would need to be propagated >there) would be the only actual user?
xen_register_gsi and hence, xen_register_pirq are called from init (with xen_setup_acpi_sci) and non-init (with acpi_register_gsi_xen); since xen_set_acpi_sci calls it with gsi == acpi_sci_override_gsi and is marked __init, the best way would be to call xen_register_gsi and xen_register_pirq with a boolean argument like sci_override to obviate the need to use acpi_sci_override_gsi in register_pirq. I will send the patch with this change if it looks good.Hold on, let me rebase #stable/pci.cleanups and see if the issue here disappears.
Thanks, will wait until the rebase and test after that.
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