Re: [PATCH x86] [15/16] Force __cpuinit on for CONFIG_PM withoutHOTPLUG_CPU

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 14 2008 - 10:01:32 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Would be great to have them automated - just dunno how to do it. Do
> > you see a feasible way to do it?
>
> a good starting point would be to make the warnings a lot more
> self-explanatory. Right now it's often non-obvious trying to figure
> out how the dependencies are structured and which one should be
> changed to get rid of the bug.

for example, in current -git, could you tell me why this triggers:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x87e2a): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text: (between 'process_zones' and 'setup_per_cpu_pageset')

and how to resolve it? I had a quick look and it was not obvious to me.

Ingo
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