Re: [linux-stable-rc:linux-4.14.y 9946/9999] WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x213438): Section mismatch in reference from the function __rmqueue() to the function .meminit.text:zone_pcp_update()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 08:58:14AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 02:57:23AM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> > tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.14.y
> > head:   0d12dcf336c606a37cf2ad4319bc59f69eb6c255
> > commit: 88284ade98e99e3e391c90b51b8b7420953071d4 [9946/9999] mm, meminit: recalculate pcpu batch and high limits after init completes
> > config: sparc64-allmodconfig (attached as .config)
> > compiler: sparc64-linux-gcc (GCC) 7.4.0
> > reproduce:
> >         wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
> >         chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
> >         git checkout 88284ade98e99e3e391c90b51b8b7420953071d4
> >         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> >         GCC_VERSION=7.4.0 make.cross ARCH=sparc64 
> > 
> > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
> > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> > 
> > All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
> > 
> > >> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x213438): Section mismatch in reference from the function __rmqueue() to the function .meminit.text:zone_pcp_update()
> >    The function __rmqueue() references
> >    the function __meminit zone_pcp_update().
> >    This is often because __rmqueue lacks a __meminit
> >    annotation or the annotation of zone_pcp_update is wrong.
> > 
> 
> Greg,
> 
> It's probably best to drop this patch from 4.14-stable for now. In theory,
> 4.14-stable is affected but deferred meminit went through a lot of changes
> and it hasn't been proven it is definitely necessary. I know at least
> that a 4.12-based distribution kernel is not affected by the bug but
> didn't isolate why given that 4.12-vanilla failed to boot on the test
> machines I had access to.

It's been dropped already from 4.14.y, 4.9.y, and 4.4.y as the backports
I did were totally wrong (ugh, fuzz), and things like this blew up.

I'll not worry about doing the backport correct later now that you
mention this, thanks for letting me know!

greg k-h