Re: [PATCH v3] cpufreq: qcom-kryo: Fix section annotations

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Sep 20 2018 - 04:12:17 EST


On Thursday, September 20, 2018 2:22:21 AM CEST Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> There is currently a warning when building the Kryo cpufreq driver into
> the kernel image:
>
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8aa424): Section mismatch in reference from
> the function qcom_cpufreq_kryo_probe() to the function
> .init.text:qcom_cpufreq_kryo_get_msm_id()
> The function qcom_cpufreq_kryo_probe() references
> the function __init qcom_cpufreq_kryo_get_msm_id().
> This is often because qcom_cpufreq_kryo_probe lacks a __init
> annotation or the annotation of qcom_cpufreq_kryo_get_msm_id is wrong.
>
> Remove the '__init' annotation from qcom_cpufreq_kryo_get_msm_id
> so that there is no more mismatch warning.
>
> Additionally, Nick noticed that the remove function was marked as
> '__init' when it should really be marked as '__exit'.
>
> Fixes: 46e2856b8e18 ("cpufreq: Add Kryo CPU scaling driver")
> Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> Add '__init' to qcom_cpufreq_kryo_probe instead of removing it from
> qcom_cpufreq_kryo_get_msm_id.
>
> v2 -> v3:
>
> Go back to removing '__init' from qcom_cpufreq_kryo_get_msm_id instead
> of adding '__init' to qcom_cpufreq_kryo_probe, which causes another
> mismatch warning and add the '__init' -> '__exit' conversion noticed by
> Nick.
>
> The alternative solution is adding '__init' to qcom_cpufreq_kryo_probe,
> removing the probe definition from qcom_cpufreq_kryo_driver, then
> changing platform_driver_register to platform_driver_probe in
> qcom_cpufreq_kryo_init, like [1]. I don't know how that would perform
> given that I don't have a way to test this device.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180919185341.31298-1-natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-kryo.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-kryo.c b/drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-kryo.c
> index a1830fa25fc5..2a3675c24032 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-kryo.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-kryo.c
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ enum _msm8996_version {
>
> struct platform_device *cpufreq_dt_pdev, *kryo_cpufreq_pdev;
>
> -static enum _msm8996_version __init qcom_cpufreq_kryo_get_msm_id(void)
> +static enum _msm8996_version qcom_cpufreq_kryo_get_msm_id(void)
> {
> size_t len;
> u32 *msm_id;
> @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int __init qcom_cpufreq_kryo_init(void)
> }
> module_init(qcom_cpufreq_kryo_init);
>
> -static void __init qcom_cpufreq_kryo_exit(void)
> +static void __exit qcom_cpufreq_kryo_exit(void)
> {
> platform_device_unregister(kryo_cpufreq_pdev);
> platform_driver_unregister(&qcom_cpufreq_kryo_driver);
>

OK, thanks!

I'll queue this up for 4.19-rc6 if there are no objections.