Re: 2.6.24-git7: section mismatches woes

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 16:35:40 EST


On Wednesday, 30 of January 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:50:43PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I get these messages, the majority of which seem to be false-positives:
> ...
> > modpost: Found 35 section mismatch(es).
> > To see additional details select "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
> > in the Kernel Hacking menu (CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH).
> Looking in to these atm.
>
> >
> > and if I compile the kernel with CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH, it breaks resuming
> > from RAM.
>
> The only functional difference when you enable CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH is the
> addition of the -fno-inline-functions-called-once to CFLAGS.
> So we have some code somewhere that breaks if it is not inlined by gcc.
>
> It would be nice to sort out where.
> If you have a rough idea where to look

No, I don't.

It looks like there's somewhere in arch/x86, since I ruled out kernel/power and
drivers/acpi already.

Thanks,
Rafael
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