Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:25:21 -0700
From: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>,
       Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>,
       Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: More info on section mismatches (was Re: [PATCH] [TULIP] Fix section mismatch in de2104x.c)
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:39:41PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >From: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
> >
> >WARNING: drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.o - Section mismatch: reference to 
> >.init.text:de_init_one from .data.rel.local after 'de_driver' (at offset 
> >0x20)
> >WARNING: drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.o - Section mismatch: reference to 
> >.exit.text:de_remove_one from .data.rel.local after 'de_driver' (at offset 
> >0x28)
> 
> I'm a bit blind, so help me out here...  what precisely is mismatched?
> 
> AFAICS everything is properly marked __init or __exit.

(Cc'd Richard Henderson as resident gcc guru.)

We're discussing a way to get more information out of section mismatch
reports so that the causes of section mismatches are a little more
obvious.  I'd like to see something like:

foo() is marked __init at line 34
bar() calls foo() at line 57

Arjan points out that optimization may make this difficult; I'm happy
with a separate script running at a lower level of optimization that
you can run by hand when one of these warnings shows up.

Ideas?

-VAL
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