This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86: Fix section mismatch on load_ucode_ap
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-fix-section-mismatch-on-load_ucode_ap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 949785996ec2250fa958fc3a924e5186e9a8fa2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:15:26 -0400
Subject: x86: Fix section mismatch on load_ucode_ap
From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 949785996ec2250fa958fc3a924e5186e9a8fa2c upstream.
We are in the process of removing all the __cpuinit annotations.
While working on making that change, an existing problem was
made evident:
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x198f2): Section mismatch
in reference from the function cpu_init() to the function
.init.text:load_ucode_ap() The function cpu_init() references
the function __init load_ucode_ap(). This is often because cpu_init
lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of load_ucode_ap is wrong.
This now appears because in my working tree, cpu_init() is no longer
tagged as __cpuinit, and so the audit picks up the mismatch. The 2nd
hypothesis from the audit is the correct one, as there was an incorrect
__init tag on the prototype in the header (but __cpuinit was used on
the function itself.)
The audit is telling us that the prototype's __init annotation took
effect and the function did land in the .init.text section. Checking
with objdump on a mainline tree that still has __cpuinit shows that
the __cpuinit on the function takes precedence over the __init on the
prototype, but that won't be true once we make __cpuinit a no-op.
Even though we are removing __cpuinit, we temporarily align both
the function and the prototype on __cpuinit so that the changeset
can be applied to stable trees if desired.
[ hpa: build fix only, no object code change ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371654926-11729-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ static inline void __exit exit_amd_micro
#ifdef CONFIG_MICROCODE_EARLY
#define MAX_UCODE_COUNT 128
extern void __init load_ucode_bsp(void);
-extern __init void load_ucode_ap(void);
+extern void __cpuinit load_ucode_ap(void);
extern int __init save_microcode_in_initrd(void);
#else
static inline void __init load_ucode_bsp(void) {}
-static inline __init void load_ucode_ap(void) {}
+static inline void __cpuinit load_ucode_ap(void) {}
static inline int __init save_microcode_in_initrd(void)
{
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/x86-fix-section-mismatch-on-load_ucode_ap.patch
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