3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html