Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965970AbWKOHmO (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:42:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965992AbWKOHmN (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:42:13 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:19166 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965970AbWKOHmM (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:42:12 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2: warnings in MODPOST and later From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" In-Reply-To: <20061114150902.f772c75c.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20061114014125.dd315fff.akpm@osdl.org> <20061114225622.GO22565@stusta.de> <20061114150902.f772c75c.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:42:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1163576525.31358.80.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 (2.8.1.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1381 Lines: 31 On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:09 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:56:22 +0100 > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Since people were recently complaining about too many warnings: > > Here is a list of the warnings I'm getting in MODPOST and later. > > > > Since the warnings by far exceed the 100kB limit of linux-kernel (sic), > > I had to attach them compressed. > > > > With the exception of the "drivers/ide/pci/atiixp:FFFF05", none of these > > warnings is present in Linus' tree. > > yes, lots of new section mismatch warnings. > > A large number of them are due to the paravirt patches: > > WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .parainstructions between '__start_parainstructions' (at offset 0xc0458470) and '__stop_parainstructions' > WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .parainstructions between '__start_parainstructions' (at offset 0xc0458478) and '__stop_parainstructions' ok this means that you shouldn't probably switch paravirtualizations after boot, but that's ok ;) it's not like hypervisor support should be a module anyway - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/