Re: [PATCH] Fix section type conflict in arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 14:15:54 EST


At Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:57:21 -0800,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > __initdata and const cannot be always a happy pair, as gcc-4.3.3 gives
> > the compile errors like:
> >
> > arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c:156: error: xen_init_ops causes a section type conflict
> > arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c:340: error: xen_iosapic_ops causes a section type conflict
> >
> > This patch simply removes const from data with __initdata.
> >
>
> Yeah, I've seen these sort of messages before, but I don't see why
> there's an inherent problem with having const __initdata.

Oh, wait; just looking through linux/init.h, I see we have now
__initconst. Maybe this is the right choice?

This would be better documented somewhere in Documentation/*...


thanks,

Takashi


>
> Sam?
>
> J
>
> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > diff --git a/arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c b/arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c
> > index 04cd123..5d491d9 100644
> > --- a/arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c
> > +++ b/arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c
> > @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ xen_post_smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)
> > xen_setup_vcpu_info_placement();
> > }
> >
> > -static const struct pv_init_ops xen_init_ops __initdata = {
> > +static struct pv_init_ops xen_init_ops __initdata = {
> > .banner = xen_banner,
> >
> > .reserve_memory = xen_reserve_memory,
> > @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ xen_intrin_local_irq_restore(unsigned long mask)
> > xen_rsm_i();
> > }
> >
> > -static const struct pv_cpu_ops xen_cpu_ops __initdata = {
> > +static struct pv_cpu_ops xen_cpu_ops __initdata = {
> > .fc = xen_fc,
> > .thash = xen_thash,
> > .get_cpuid = xen_get_cpuid,
> > @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ xen_iosapic_write(char __iomem *iosapic, unsigned int reg, u32 val)
> > HYPERVISOR_physdev_op(PHYSDEVOP_apic_write, &apic_op);
> > }
> >
> > -static const struct pv_iosapic_ops xen_iosapic_ops __initdata = {
> > +static struct pv_iosapic_ops xen_iosapic_ops __initdata = {
> > .pcat_compat_init = xen_pcat_compat_init,
> > .__get_irq_chip = xen_iosapic_get_irq_chip,
> >
> >
>
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