This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc64: fix compile warning section mismatch in find_node() to the 4.8-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: sparc64-fix-compile-warning-section-mismatch-in-find_node.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Dec 8 07:19:56 CET 2016 From: Thomas Tai <thomas.tai@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:41:00 -0800 Subject: sparc64: fix compile warning section mismatch in find_node() From: Thomas Tai <thomas.tai@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 87a349f9cc0908bc0cfac0c9ece3179f650ae95a ] A compile warning is introduced by a commit to fix the find_node(). This patch fix the compile warning by moving find_node() into __init section. Because find_node() is only used by memblock_nid_range() which is only used by a __init add_node_ranges(). find_node() and memblock_nid_range() should also be inside __init section. Signed-off-by: Thomas Tai <thomas.tai@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c @@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ static int num_mblocks; static int find_numa_node_for_addr(unsigned long pa, struct node_mem_mask *pnode_mask); -static unsigned long ra_to_pa(unsigned long addr) +static unsigned long __init ra_to_pa(unsigned long addr) { int i; @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ static unsigned long ra_to_pa(unsigned l return addr; } -static int find_node(unsigned long addr) +static int __init find_node(unsigned long addr) { static bool search_mdesc = true; static struct node_mem_mask last_mem_mask = { ~0UL, ~0UL }; @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ static int find_node(unsigned long addr) return last_index; } -static u64 memblock_nid_range(u64 start, u64 end, int *nid) +static u64 __init memblock_nid_range(u64 start, u64 end, int *nid) { *nid = find_node(start); start += PAGE_SIZE; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thomas.tai@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/sparc64-fix-compile-warning-section-mismatch-in-find_node.patch queue-4.8/sparc64-fix-find_node-warning-if-numa-node-cannot-be-found.patch -- 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