Re: [PATCH 5.18 000/181] 5.18.8-rc1 review

From: Ronald Warsow
Date: Tue Jun 28 2022 - 17:20:40 EST


On 28.06.22 22:18, Thomas Backlund wrote:
Den 2022-06-27 kl. 19:38, skrev Ronald Warsow:
hallo Greg

5.18.8-rc1

compiles (see [1]), boots and runs here on x86_64
(Intel i5-11400, Fedora 36)

[1]
a regression against 5.18.7:

...

LD      vmlinux.o
  MODPOST vmlinux.symvers
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(___ksymtab_gpl+tick_nohz_full_setup+0x0):
Section mismatch in reference from the variable
__ksymtab_tick_nohz_full_setup to the function
.init.text:tick_nohz_full_setup()
The symbol tick_nohz_full_setup is exported and annotated __init
Fix this by removing the __init annotation of tick_nohz_full_setup or
drop the export.


Should be fixed by:


From 2390095113e98fc52fffe35c5206d30d9efe3f78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:22:09 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] tick/nohz: unexport __init-annotated tick_nohz_full_setup()

--
Thomas


Thanks Thomas
--
Ronald