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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, kent.overstreet@linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] sched.h: always_inline alloc_tag_{save|restore} to fix modpost warnings
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 20:54:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240703205415.de49467352601290c9fb27e8@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJuCfpEJkCN1XDDE+2B4ePoFKbvSCaUA8=RO1TTg23XV56mRZg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 20:46:11 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> wrote:

> Ok, I confirmed that the warning is happening due to the access to
> "current" from alloc_tag_save()/alloc_tag_restore() functions. I guess
> when these functions access "thread_info" variable:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.10-rc6/source/arch/xtensa/include/asm/thread_info.h#L96,
> compiler flags that because the variable is on the stack of an __init
> function while alloc_tag_save()/alloc_tag_restore() when not inlined
> are from .text section.

Well, is the warning legitimate?  I don't see why an automatic variable
of an __init function should be considered to be .init storage - we can
assume it won't become an invalid reference while the .init function is
executing?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-04  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-03 22:15 Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-07-03 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2024-07-03 23:23   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-07-04  0:10     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-07-04  3:46       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-07-04  3:54         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2024-07-04  4:07           ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-07-04  4:17             ` Andrew Morton
2024-07-04  4:25               ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-07-04  5:17                 ` Andrew Morton

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