Re: [PATCH] ARM: mark prepare_page_table as __init
From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon May 17 2021 - 06:22:13 EST
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:04 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> In some configurations when building with gcc-11, prepare_page_table
> does not get inline, which causes a build time warning for a section
> mismatch:
>
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0xce8): Section mismatch in reference from the function prepare_page_table() to the (unknown reference) .init.data:(unknown)
> The function prepare_page_table() references
> the (unknown reference) __initdata (unknown).
> This is often because prepare_page_table lacks a __initdata
> annotation or the annotation of (unknown) is wrong.
>
> Mark the function as __init to avoid the warning regardless of the
> inlining.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Like the others say, drop inline, with that:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Yours,
Linus Walleij