Re: [PATCH 6.2 073/211] swiotlb: mark swiotlb_memblock_alloc() as __init

[Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@amd.com>]

On 11/3/23 00:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 9b07d27d0fbb7f7441aa986859a0f53ec93a0335 ]
> 
> swiotlb_memblock_alloc() calls memblock_alloc(), which calls
> (__init) memblock_alloc_try_nid(). However, swiotlb_membloc_alloc()
> can be marked as __init since it is only called by swiotlb_init_remap(),
> which is already marked as __init. This prevents a modpost build
> warning/error:
> 
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: swiotlb_memblock_alloc (section: .text) -> memblock_alloc_try_nid (section: .init.text)
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: swiotlb_memblock_alloc (section: .text) -> memblock_alloc_try_nid (section: .init.text)
> 
> This fixes the build warning/error seen on ARM64, PPC64, S390, i386,
> and x86_64.

Did you do something special in your config to get these warnings? Or it 
is your toolchain? I tested with whatever comes with Ubuntu2210 and 
Fedora36 and neither printed the warning and I want to see those :-/ Thanks,


> 
> Fixes: 8d58aa484920 ("swiotlb: reduce the swiotlb buffer size on allocation failure")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@amd.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: iommu@lists.linux.dev
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
>   kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> index a34c38bbe28f1..ef3bc3a5bbed3 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> @@ -300,7 +300,8 @@ static void swiotlb_init_io_tlb_mem(struct io_tlb_mem *mem, phys_addr_t start,
>   	return;
>   }
>   
> -static void *swiotlb_memblock_alloc(unsigned long nslabs, unsigned int flags,
> +static void __init *swiotlb_memblock_alloc(unsigned long nslabs,
> +		unsigned int flags,
>   		int (*remap)(void *tlb, unsigned long nslabs))
>   {
>   	size_t bytes = PAGE_ALIGN(nslabs << IO_TLB_SHIFT);

-- 
Alexey