The patch titled i386: make apic probe function non-init has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: i386: make apic probe function non-init From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> o struct genapic contains pointer to probe() function which is of type __init. Hence MODPOST generates warning if kernel is compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y for i386. WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_summit' (at offset 0xc058b504) and 'apic_bigsmp' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_bigsmp' (at offset 0xc058b5a4) and 'cpu.4471' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_es7000' (at offset 0xc058b644) and 'apic_default' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_default' (at offset 0xc058b6e4) and 'interrupt' o One of the possible options is to put special case check in MODPOST to not emit warnings for this case but I think it is not a very good option in terms of maintenance. o Another option is to make probe() function non __init. Anyway this function is really small so not freeing this memory after init is not a big deal. Secondly, from a programming perspective, probably genapic should not provide pointers to functions which have been freed as genapic is non __init and is used even after initialization is complete. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c | 2 +- arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c | 2 +- arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c | 2 +- arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c --- a/arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init +++ a/arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata b }; -static __init int probe_bigsmp(void) +static int probe_bigsmp(void) { if (def_to_bigsmp) dmi_bigsmp = 1; diff -puN arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c --- a/arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init +++ a/arch/i386/mach-generic/default.c @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ #include <asm/mach-default/mach_mpparse.h> /* should be called last. */ -static __init int probe_default(void) +static int probe_default(void) { return 1; } diff -puN arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c --- a/arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init +++ a/arch/i386/mach-generic/es7000.c @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ #include <asm/mach-es7000/mach_mpparse.h> #include <asm/mach-es7000/mach_wakecpu.h> -static __init int probe_es7000(void) +static int probe_es7000(void) { /* probed later in mptable/ACPI hooks */ return 0; diff -puN arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c --- a/arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c~i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init +++ a/arch/i386/mach-generic/summit.c @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ #include <asm/mach-summit/mach_ipi.h> #include <asm/mach-summit/mach_mpparse.h> -static __init int probe_summit(void) +static int probe_summit(void) { /* probed later in mptable/ACPI hooks */ return 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx are change-cpu_up-and-co-from-__devinit-to-__cpuinit.patch kdump-documentation-update-for-2620.patch pci-quirks-modpost-warning-fix.patch i386-sched_clock-using-init-data-tsc_disable-fix.patch make-noirqdebug_setup-function-non-init-to-fix-modpost-warning.patch scsi-megaraid_mmmbox-init-fix-for-kdump.patch clockevents-i386-drivers.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html