Re: section mismatches

[Chris Wright]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02fe884): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext')
> > WARNING: vmlinux(.data+0xc0439099): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:xen_start_kernel (between 'startup_xen' and 'boot_gdt_descr')
> >   
> 
> This is safe, but I'll clean it up.  I'll also have a look at iret_exc,
> some of which might be Xen-related.  Actually, iret_exc is in the fixup
> section, but it gets used from several places, so it might be worth just
> making it .text.

I tracked down a bunch of these a little while back.  It's not really
iret_exc, but since there is no _sfixup/_efixup markers iret_exc is the
closest symbol to pick on.  All the [iret_exc, _etext] warnings I found
were completely harmless from things that used, for example, mfn_to_pfn
in an __init function (which sucks in a fixup via __get_user).
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