2007-06-05 23:15:56

by Jeff Chua

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Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions [section mismatch]

On 6/2/07, Michal Piotrowski <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that Sam is working on this.
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git&a=search&h=f285e3d329ce68cc355fadf4ab2c8f34d7f264cb&st=commit&s=section+mismatch

I still got the section mismatch errors on 2.6.22-rc4. Here's the details ...

WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x9c7f): Section mismatch:
reference to .init.text: (between 'init_intel_cacheinfo' and
'cache_shared_cpu_map_setup')
WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xae43): Section mismatch:
reference to .init.text: (between 'mtrr_bp_init' and 'mtrr_ap_init')
WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xafb1): Section mismatch:
reference to .init.text: (between 'mtrr_bp_init' and 'mtrr_ap_init')
WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xafb6): Section mismatch:
reference to .init.text: (between 'mtrr_bp_init' and 'mtrr_ap_init')
WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xb97d): Section mismatch:
reference to .init.text: (between 'get_mtrr_state' and 'mtrr_wrmsr')
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x17a93): Section mismatch: reference
to .init.text: (between 'kthreadd' and 'init_waitqueue_head')


Only happens after recompile.

Thanks,
Jeff.