Re: [PATCH] x86,nmi: Fix section mismatch warnings on 32-bit

[Don Zickus]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 12:14:33PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > I didn't think it would be compiler dependent as I do not know what
> > compiler the reporter was using.  I used a RHEL-6 4.4.4 compiler (which
> > you probably don't have :^) ).
> 
> Indeed, somehow I failed to see the obvious - it's commit
> 72b3fb24713755cf9740b403e95aa67ceedf3509 that causes
> these problems. Instantiating static data like this just doesn't
> play with any of the pointers passed being into .init.*.
> 
> I'd suggest either open coding register_nmi_handler() (with
> the static data put into __initdata), or further abstracting it
> by allowing an optional fifth argument (specifying the section
> annotation if needed).

Ah.  Thanks for figuring that out!!  I will post a patch opencoding it.

Thanks,
Don
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