U=y and start_secondary() is calling smp_callin() which in-turn calls synchronize_tsc_ap() which is of type __init. This should have meant broken CPU hotplug. WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'start_secondary' (at offset 0xc011603f) and 'initialize_secondary' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'MP_processor_info' (at offset 0xc0116a4f) and 'mp_register_lapic' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'MP_processor_info' (at offset 0xc0116a4f) and 'mp_register_lapic' Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen