The patch titled cpu: fix section mismatch warnings in hotcpu_register has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warnings-in-hotcpu_register.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: cpu: fix section mismatch warnings in hotcpu_register From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fix following warnings: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x5020): Section mismatch in reference from the variable cpu_vsyscall_notifier_nb.12876 to the function .cpuinit.text:cpu_vsyscall_notifier() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x9ce0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable profile_cpu_callback_nb.17654 to the function .devinit.text:profile_cpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0xd380): Section mismatch in reference from the variable workqueue_cpu_callback_nb.15004 to the function .devinit.text:workqueue_cpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x11d00): Section mismatch in reference from the variable relay_hotcpu_callback_nb.19626 to the function .cpuinit.text:relay_hotcpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x12970): Section mismatch in reference from the variable cpu_callback_nb.24694 to the function .devinit.text:cpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x3fee0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable percpu_counter_hotcpu_callback_nb.10903 to the function .cpuinit.text:percpu_counter_hotcpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x74ce0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable topology_cpu_callback_nb.12506 to the function .cpuinit.text:topology_cpu_callback() Functions used as argument are by definition only used in HOTPLUG_CPU situations so thay are annotated __cpuinit. Annotate the static variable used by hotcpu_register with __cpuinitdata to match this definition. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/cpu.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/cpu.h~cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warnings-in-hotcpu_register include/linux/cpu.h --- a/include/linux/cpu.h~cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warnings-in-hotcpu_register +++ a/include/linux/cpu.h @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static inline void cpuhotplug_mutex_unlo extern void get_online_cpus(void); extern void put_online_cpus(void); #define hotcpu_notifier(fn, pri) { \ - static struct notifier_block fn##_nb = \ + static struct notifier_block fn##_nb __cpuinitdata = \ { .notifier_call = fn, .priority = pri }; \ register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb); \ } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx are samples-build-fix.patch git-acpi.patch acpi-fix-section-mismatch-in-acpi_pci_root_add.patch acpi-fix-section-mismatch-in-processor_corecacpi_processor_hotplug_notify.patch acer-wmi-fix-section-mismatch-warnings.patch alsa-caiaq-fix-section-mismatch-warning.patch cpufreq-fix-section-mismatch-warnings.patch drivers-base-cpu-fix-section-mismatch-in-cpucstore_online.patch git-kbuild.patch pcmcia-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-from-class_interface-variables.patch pcmcia-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-from-pci_driver-variables.patch pcmcia-annotate-cb_alloc-with-__ref.patch serial-silence-section-mismatch-warnings-in-8250_pci.patch pci-fix-section-mismatch-warning-in-pci_scan_child_bus.patch scsi-fix-section-mismatch-in-aic94xx.patch cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warnings-in-hotcpu_register.patch cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warning-in-unregister_cpu_notifier.patch cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warnings-in-cpu_down.patch cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warning-in-reference-to-register_cpu_notifier.patch tpm-fix-section-mismatch-warning.patch rtc-silence-section-mismatch-warning-in-rtc-test.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