Re: [ammarfaizi2-block:google/android/kernel/common/android12-trusty-5.10 4036/5872] WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4111c4): Section mismatch in reference from the function memblock_bottom_up() to the variable .meminit.data:memblock

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Wed Mar 30 2022 - 17:47:59 EST


On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 02:53:14PM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> Hi Roman,
>
> FYI, the error/warning still remains.
>
> tree: https://github.com/ammarfaizi2/linux-block google/android/kernel/common/android12-trusty-5.10
> head: 07055bfd3d810d41a38354693dfaa55a6f8c0025
> commit: 0e0bfc41fdf4d79d39ebe929844cdee44f97366d [4036/5872] UPSTREAM: mm: cma: allocate cma areas bottom-up
> config: x86_64-randconfig-a005 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220330/202203301412.MZ7wQvQz-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
> compiler: clang version 15.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 0f6d9501cf49ce02937099350d08f20c4af86f3d)
> reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
> chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
> # https://github.com/ammarfaizi2/linux-block/commit/0e0bfc41fdf4d79d39ebe929844cdee44f97366d
> git remote add ammarfaizi2-block https://github.com/ammarfaizi2/linux-block
> git fetch --no-tags ammarfaizi2-block google/android/kernel/common/android12-trusty-5.10
> git checkout 0e0bfc41fdf4d79d39ebe929844cdee44f97366d
> # save the config file to linux build tree
> mkdir build_dir
> COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash
>
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>, old ones prefixed by <<):
>
> >> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4111c4): Section mismatch in reference from the function memblock_bottom_up() to the variable .meminit.data:memblock
> The function memblock_bottom_up() references
> the variable __meminitdata memblock.
> This is often because memblock_bottom_up lacks a __meminitdata
> annotation or the annotation of memblock is wrong.

I guess this patch should fix it, however I fail to reproduce the original issue.
Maybe it's up to the specific compiler version.

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