From: Ralf Baechle This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this patch modpost will throw spurious warnings: LD vmlinux SYSMAP System.map SYSMAP .tmp_System.map MODPOST vmlinux WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN scripts/mod/modpost.c~whitelist-references-from-__dbe_table-to-init scripts/mod/modpost.c --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c~whitelist-references-from-__dbe_table-to-init +++ a/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1071,6 +1071,7 @@ static int initexit_section_ref_ok(const ".machvec", /* ia64 + powerpc uses these */ ".machine.desc", ".opd", /* See comment [OPD] */ + "__dbe_table", ".parainstructions", ".pdr", ".plt", /* seen on ARCH=um build on x86_64. Harmless */ _