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From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Nick Desaulniers" <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Sami Tolvanen" <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	"Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	"Josh Poimboeuf" <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: keep boot_command_line after init
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:02:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <034f0b5e-3c61-4392-8360-ebd57749d53e@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOdnk+e_QmE+QpcqzntNVgf8mL+NOPtUggj4F__iTf_XD+A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023, at 18:25, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 7:33 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>
>> The boot command line is not available after the init section gets discarded,
>> so adding a permanent reference to it causes a link time warning:
>>
>> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: cmdline_load_proc_show+0x2 (section: .text) -> boot_command_line (section: .init.data)
>
> cmdline_load_proc_show is probably inlined, but should it also be
> marked __init?  It's lone call site seems to be __init AFAICT.
>

No, that's not what it does: cmdline_load_proc_show() is called
when someone reads /proc/cmdline_load from userspace. It's only
the function that creates this procfs file that is __init, but the
call happens later.

      Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-26 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-26 14:33 Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-26 16:25 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-07-26 17:02   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2023-07-26 18:53     ` Paul E. McKenney

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