On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On m68k (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is not set), I get:
> 
>     WARNING: vmlinux.o(.meminit.text+0x36c): Section mismatch in reference 
> from the function free_area_init_core() to the function 
> .init.text:setup_usemap()
>     The function __meminit free_area_init_core() references
>     a function __init setup_usemap().
>     If free_area_init_core is only used by setup_usemap then
>     annotate free_area_init_core with a matching annotation.
> 
> If CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is set, the problem is  not noticed because setup_usemap()
> is always inlined.
> 
> Properly annotating setup_usemap() and usemap_size() fixes it.

Woops, hit the send button too soon.

setup_usemap() calls alloc_bootmem_node(), causing a whole new
avalanche of warnings to be fixed up :-(

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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