@@ -83,8 +83,16 @@ static struct padata_work *padata_work_alloc(void)
return pw;
}
-static void padata_work_init(struct padata_work *pw, work_func_t work_fn,
- void *data, int flags)
+/*
+ * This function is marked __ref because this function may be optimized in such
+ * a way that it directly refers to work_fn's address, which causes modpost to
+ * complain when work_fn is marked __init. This scenario was observed with clang
+ * LTO, where padata_work_init() was optimized to refer directly to
+ * padata_mt_helper() because the calls to padata_work_init() with other work_fn
+ * values were eliminated or inlined.
+ */
+static void __ref padata_work_init(struct padata_work *pw, work_func_t work_fn,
+ void *data, int flags)
{
if (flags & PADATA_WORK_ONSTACK)
INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&pw->pw_work, work_fn);
When building arm64 allmodconfig + ThinLTO with clang and a proposed modpost update to account for -ffuncton-sections, the following warning appears: WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: padata_work_init (section: .text.padata_work_init) -> padata_mt_helper (section: .init.text) WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: padata_work_init (section: .text.padata_work_init) -> padata_mt_helper (section: .init.text) LLVM has optimized padata_work_init() to include the address of padata_mt_helper() directly because it inlined the other call to padata_work_init() with padata_parallel_worker(), meaning the remaining uses of padata_work_init() use padata_mt_helper() as the work_fn argument. This optimization causes modpost to complain since padata_work_init() is not __init, whereas padata_mt_helper() is. Since padata_work_init() is only called from __init code when padata_mt_helper() is passed as the work_fn argument, mark padata_work_init() as __ref, which makes it clear to modpost that this scenario is okay. Suggested-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> --- Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org --- kernel/padata.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)