From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758158AbXIFTqm (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:46:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757190AbXIFTqf (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:46:35 -0400 Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.54]:60911 "EHLO tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755478AbXIFTqe (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:46:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:46:32 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: hpa@zytor.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Warning about init section reference in start_kernel (2.6.23-rc4-mm1) Message-ID: <20070906194632.GB4518@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 15:41:57 up 38 days, 20:00, 5 users, load average: 0.51, 1.02, 0.89 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Peter, I have seen the following warning on the recent -mm kernels when compiling a i386 kernel: scripts/mod/modpost -o /home/compudj/git/morestable/linux-2.6-lttng/Module.symvers vmlinux.o WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.head+0x223): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.1:start_kernel (between 'is386' and 'check_x87') It looks like head.S jumps to start_kernel at the end of is386. Is this ok and valid ? If yes, then I guess modpost should be updated. Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68