Re: WARNING: [xtensa] modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0x14 (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)

From: Przemek Kitszel
Date: Thu Aug 22 2024 - 04:23:28 EST


On 8/22/24 01:24, kernel test robot wrote:
Hi Pawel,

FYI, the error/warning still remains.

Apologies that we did not replied to the original report.


tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head: b311c1b497e51a628aa89e7cb954481e5f9dced2
commit: 982b0192db455d288fc1deb06632f529c35daa15 ice: Refactor finding advertised link speed
date: 10 months ago
config: xtensa-randconfig-r123-20240821 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20240822/202408220755.LlaA10C6-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)

I wonder why there is 6.6 kernel used, perhaps not a big deal.

compiler: xtensa-linux-gcc (GCC) 14.1.0
reproduce: (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20240822/202408220755.LlaA10C6-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202408220755.LlaA10C6-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>, old ones prefixed by <<):

WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in vmlinux.o
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: put_page+0x78 (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level_names (section: .init.data)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0x14 (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)

I have spent just half of hour on that and I'm clueless.

For reference, the driver code is:
static const u32 arr_name[] __initconst = {
SOME_CONST,
};
and core kernel has:
#define __initconst __section(.init.rodata)


@Max Filippov, you have authored much of xtensa arch for kernel,
especially XIP support, and touched .init.rodata back then;
perhaps you have any idea what is going here?

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0x30 (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0x4c (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0x68 (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0x84 (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0xa0 (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0xbc (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0xd8 (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: ice_adv_lnk_speed_maps+0xf4 (section: .data) -> __setup_str_initcall_blacklist (section: .init.rodata)