[PATCH v2 5/8] clk: don't mark clkdev_add_table as init
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2012-10-12 11:05:22
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On Friday 12 October 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:13:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:quoted
s3c2440_clk_add is a subsys_interface method and calls clkdev_add_table, which means we might be calling it after the __init section is discarded. Without this patch, building mini2440_defconfig results in: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x9848): Section mismatch in reference from the function s3c2440_clk_add() to the function .init.text:clkdev_add_table() The function s3c2440_clk_add() references the function __init clkdev_add_table(). This is often because s3c2440_clk_add lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of clkdev_add_table is wrong.I'm not sure this is the right thing to do. I suspect this comes from the stupidly complex samsung code, and that this is actually safe - I suspect that s3c2440_clk_add() needs to be appropriately marked, but then you end up having to trace its call path through various structures etc.
Yes, you are right. I have verified now that the only code path into s3c2440_clk_add() is from "int __init s3c2440_init(void)", so s3c2440_clk_add can be marked __init_refok. I'll follow up with a new patch to replace this one. Arnd