From: Sam Ravnborg Fix following warnings: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x5020): Section mismatch in reference from the variable cpu_vsyscall_notifier_nb.12876 to the function .cpuinit.text:cpu_vsyscall_notifier() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x9ce0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable profile_cpu_callback_nb.17654 to the function .devinit.text:profile_cpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0xd380): Section mismatch in reference from the variable workqueue_cpu_callback_nb.15004 to the function .devinit.text:workqueue_cpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x11d00): Section mismatch in reference from the variable relay_hotcpu_callback_nb.19626 to the function .cpuinit.text:relay_hotcpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x12970): Section mismatch in reference from the variable cpu_callback_nb.24694 to the function .devinit.text:cpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x3fee0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable percpu_counter_hotcpu_callback_nb.10903 to the function .cpuinit.text:percpu_counter_hotcpu_callback() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x74ce0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable topology_cpu_callback_nb.12506 to the function .cpuinit.text:topology_cpu_callback() Functions used as argument are by definition only used in HOTPLUG_CPU situations so thay are annotated __cpuinit. Annotate the static variable used by hotcpu_register with __cpuinitdata to match this definition. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Gautham R Shenoy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/cpu.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/cpu.h~cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warnings-in-hotcpu_register include/linux/cpu.h --- a/include/linux/cpu.h~cpu-fix-section-mismatch-warnings-in-hotcpu_register +++ a/include/linux/cpu.h @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static inline void cpuhotplug_mutex_unlo extern void get_online_cpus(void); extern void put_online_cpus(void); #define hotcpu_notifier(fn, pri) { \ - static struct notifier_block fn##_nb = \ + static struct notifier_block fn##_nb __cpuinitdata = \ { .notifier_call = fn, .priority = pri }; \ register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb); \ } _