Re: [PATCH] ARM: reenable DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Feb 16 2011 - 15:08:06 EST


On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:23:13PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> For 2.6.38-rc4-git9 only 29 out of 133 defconfigs still produce section
> mismatches. These defconfigs produce 55 mismatches (weighted sum, so
> maybe less uniq mismatches).
>
> This is in my opinion enough to start scaring people about the remaining
> problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 3967c23..1130dd4 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ config HEADERS_CHECK
>
> config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
> bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
> - depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
> + depends on ARM || BLACKFIN
> default y
> # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
> # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number

If we are deciding to make this ARCH dependent then a blacklist is
much preferred.

I know that we have warnings lingering in the kernel for a long time.
But throwing these waring in the face of people for each build will
be eoung incentive to get most fixed.

Last I took a deeper look at this I had allyesconfig + allmodconfig
almost warning free on x86. But I recall that especially the HOTPLUG_CPU
stuff was tricky as they misuse the annotation.

We could try to enable it per default - and seem if people scream too much.

Sam
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