Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: move hugetlb_sysctl_init() to the __init section

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 19 2025 - 03:22:33 EST


On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 06:00:30 +0000 marc.herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> hugetlb_sysctl_init() is only invoked once by an __init function and is
> merely a wrapper around another __init function so there is not reason
> to keep it.
>
> Fixes the following warning when toning down some GCC inline options:
>
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference:
> hugetlb_sysctl_init+0x1b (section: .text) ->
> __register_sysctl_init (section: .init.text)
>

Huh. I wonder why this just started happening.