WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: timespec64_to_ns+0x8c (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level_names (section: .init.data)

kernel test robot <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:01:10 +0800
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:::::: Manual check reason: "only suspicious fbc files changed"
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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head:   b95f03f04d475aa6719d15a636ddf32222d55657
commit: 56cb9b7d96b28a1173a510ab25354b6599ad3a33 gcov: use atomic counter updates to fix concurrent access crashes
date:   8 weeks ago
:::::: branch date: 11 hours ago
:::::: commit date: 8 weeks ago
config: xtensa-randconfig-r133-20260721 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260721/[email protected]/config)
compiler: xtensa-linux-gcc (GCC) 15.2.0
sparse: v0.6.5-rc1
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260721/[email protected]/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Fixes: 56cb9b7d96b2 ("gcov: use atomic counter updates to fix concurrent access crashes")
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>, old ones prefixed by <<):

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: put_page+0xc0 (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level_names (section: .init.data)
>> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: timespec64_to_ns+0x8c (section: .text.unlikely) -> initcall_level_names (section: .init.data)
>> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: timespec64_to_ns+0x90 (section: .text.unlikely) -> set_reset_devices (section: .init.text)

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