This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "base: arch_topology: fix section mismatch build warnings"
to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: revert-base-arch_topology-fix-section-mismatch-build-warnings.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 9de9a449482677a75f1edd2049268a7efc40fc96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gaku Inami gaku.inami.xh@renesas.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:06:40 +0900 Subject: Revert "base: arch_topology: fix section mismatch build warnings"
From: Gaku Inami gaku.inami.xh@renesas.com
commit 9de9a449482677a75f1edd2049268a7efc40fc96 upstream.
This reverts commit 452562abb5b7 ("base: arch_topology: fix section mismatch build warnings"). It causes the notifier call hangs in some use-cases.
In some cases with using maxcpus, some of cpus are booted first and then the remaining cpus are booted. As an example, some users who want to realize fast boot up often use the following procedure.
1) Define all CPUs on device tree (CA57x4 + CA53x4) 2) Add "maxcpus=4" in bootargs 3) Kernel boot up with CA57x4 4) After kernel boot up, CA53x4 is booted from user
When kernel init was finished, CPUFREQ_POLICY_NOTIFIER was not still unregisterd. This means that "__init init_cpu_capacity_callback()" will be called after kernel init sequence. To avoid this problem, it needs to remove __init{,data} annotations by reverting this commit.
Also, this commit was needed to fix kernel compile issue below. However, this issue was also fixed by another patch: commit 82d8ba717ccb ("arch_topology: Fix section miss match warning due to free_raw_capacity()") in v4.15 as well. Whereas commit 452562abb5b7 added all the missing __init annotations, commit 82d8ba717ccb removed it from free_raw_capacity().
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x548f24): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_cpu_capacity_callback() to the variable .init.text:$x The function init_cpu_capacity_callback() references the variable __init $x. This is often because init_cpu_capacity_callback lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of $x is wrong.
Fixes: 82d8ba717ccb ("arch_topology: Fix section miss match warning due to free_raw_capacity()") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gaku Inami gaku.inami.xh@renesas.com Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Acked-by: Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/base/arch_topology.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/base/arch_topology.c +++ b/drivers/base/arch_topology.c @@ -169,11 +169,11 @@ bool __init topology_parse_cpu_capacity( }
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ -static cpumask_var_t cpus_to_visit __initdata; -static void __init parsing_done_workfn(struct work_struct *work); -static __initdata DECLARE_WORK(parsing_done_work, parsing_done_workfn); +static cpumask_var_t cpus_to_visit; +static void parsing_done_workfn(struct work_struct *work); +static DECLARE_WORK(parsing_done_work, parsing_done_workfn);
-static int __init +static int init_cpu_capacity_callback(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val, void *data) @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ init_cpu_capacity_callback(struct notifi return 0; }
-static struct notifier_block init_cpu_capacity_notifier __initdata = { +static struct notifier_block init_cpu_capacity_notifier = { .notifier_call = init_cpu_capacity_callback, };
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ static int __init register_cpufreq_notif } core_initcall(register_cpufreq_notifier);
-static void __init parsing_done_workfn(struct work_struct *work) +static void parsing_done_workfn(struct work_struct *work) { cpufreq_unregister_notifier(&init_cpu_capacity_notifier, CPUFREQ_POLICY_NOTIFIER);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gaku.inami.xh@renesas.com are
queue-4.16/revert-base-arch_topology-fix-section-mismatch-build-warnings.patch