[PATCH 8/9] mm, memory_hotplug: fix the section mismatch warning

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Apr 10 2017 - 07:04:55 EST


From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Tobias has reported following section mismatches introduced by "mm,
memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online".

WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x5a1c2): Section mismatch in reference from the function move_pfn_range_to_zone() to the function .meminit.text:memmap_init_zone()
The function move_pfn_range_to_zone() references
the function __meminit memmap_init_zone().
This is often because move_pfn_range_to_zone lacks a __meminit
annotation or the annotation of memmap_init_zone is wrong.

WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x5a25b): Section mismatch in reference from the function move_pfn_range_to_zone() to the function .meminit.text:init_currently_empty_zone()
The function move_pfn_range_to_zone() references
the function __meminit init_currently_empty_zone().
This is often because move_pfn_range_to_zone lacks a __meminit
annotation or the annotation of init_currently_empty_zone is wrong.

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x188aa2): Section mismatch in reference from the function move_pfn_range_to_zone() to the function .meminit.text:memmap_init_zone()
The function move_pfn_range_to_zone() references
the function __meminit memmap_init_zone().
This is often because move_pfn_range_to_zone lacks a __meminit
annotation or the annotation of memmap_init_zone is wrong.

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x188b3b): Section mismatch in reference from the function move_pfn_range_to_zone() to the function .meminit.text:init_currently_empty_zone()
The function move_pfn_range_to_zone() references
the function __meminit init_currently_empty_zone().
This is often because move_pfn_range_to_zone lacks a __meminit
annotation or the annotation of init_currently_empty_zone is wrong.

Both memmap_init_zone and init_currently_empty_zone are marked __meminit
but move_pfn_range_to_zone is used outside of __meminit sections (e.g.
devm_memremap_pages) so we have to hide it from the checker by __ref
annotation.

Reported-by: Tobias Regnery <tobias.regnery@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 43e84758057b..be8be844d340 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ static void __meminit resize_pgdat_range(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned lon
pgdat->node_spanned_pages = max(start_pfn + nr_pages, old_end_pfn) - pgdat->node_start_pfn;
}

-void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone,
+void __ref move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone,
unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
{
struct pglist_data *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
--
2.11.0