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Bug 676346

Summary: drivers/xen/events.c clean up section mismatch warning
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Andrew Jones <drjones>
Component: kernelAssignee: Andrew Jones <drjones>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Guangze Bai <gbai>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.1CC: mjenner, mzywusko, yshao
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-117.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Andrew Jones 2011-02-09 15:40:10 UTC
A recent backport (commit f3da3a2a5856b55520e93edb1c5452d555cb4b4b) introduced compiler warnings for section mismatches

WARNING: drivers/xen/built-in.o(.data+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable cpu_evtchn_mask_p to the variable .init.data:init_evtchn_mask
The variable cpu_evtchn_mask_p references
the variable __initdata init_evtchn_mask
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console, 

The fix is described in the warning, annotate the variable with __refdata

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2011-02-09 17:11:19 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 2 Aristeu Rozanski 2011-02-18 22:31:25 UTC
Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-117.el6

Comment 7 Guangze Bai 2011-04-06 10:23:00 UTC
Section mismatch warning reproduced in the kernel-2.6.32-113.el6.src.rpm.By testing,the bug has gone in kernel-2.6.32-117.el6.src.rpm,so this bug fix is
verified.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-23 20:39:22 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0542.html