Re: Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'kthreadd'and 'init_waitqueue_head')

From: Sergio Monteiro Basto
Date: Thu Aug 02 2007 - 07:50:37 EST


On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:54 +0200, John Sigler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build a 2.6.22.1-rt9 kernel for a P3.
>
> I used 'make xconfig' to create .config
> http://linux.kernel.free.fr/latency/config-2.6.22.1-rt9-adlink
>
> I get the following warning:
>
> LD vmlinux
> SYSMAP System.map
> SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
> MODPOST vmlinux
> WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x19152): Section mismatch: reference
> to .init.text: (between 'kthreadd' and 'init_waitqueue_head')
> AS arch/i386/boot/bootsect.o
> LD arch/i386/boot/bootsect
> AS arch/i386/boot/setup.o
> LD arch/i386/boot/setup
> AS arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.o
> CC arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.o
> OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
> GZIP arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz
> LD arch/i386/boot/compressed/piggy.o
> LD arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux
> OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin
> HOSTCC arch/i386/boot/tools/build
> BUILD arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> Root device is (3, 1)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 7082 bytes.
> System is 1142 kB
> Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready (#1)
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST 0 modules
>
>
> I also get the following warnings (which seem less severe)
>
> CC drivers/pci/pci.o
> CC drivers/pci/quirks.o
> CC drivers/pci/pci-driver.o
> CC drivers/pci/search.o
> drivers/pci/search.c: In function `pci_find_slot':
> drivers/pci/search.c:99: warning: `pci_find_device' is deprecated
> (declared at include/linux/pci.h:477)
> drivers/pci/search.c: At top level:
> drivers/pci/search.c:434: warning: `pci_find_device' is deprecated
> (declared at drivers/pci/search.c:241)
> drivers/pci/search.c:434: warning: `pci_find_device' is deprecated
> (declared at drivers/pci/search.c:241)
> CC drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.o
> CC drivers/pci/rom.o
>
>
> Finally, I note that X86_CMPXCHG64 is no longer defined since its
> specification was changed between 2.6.20 and 2.6.22.
>
> config X86_CMPXCHG64
> bool
> - depends on !M386 && !M486
> + depends on X86_PAE
> default y

this patch resolve the warning ?
I always got this warning but don't care much about it

--
SÃrgio M. B.

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