The only user of the lvalue-ness of the cpu_*_mask variables is in drivers/base/cpu.c, and that is mostly a work-around for the fact that not even const variables can be used in static initialization. Now that the underlying struct cpumasks are exposed we can take their address.
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk> --- drivers/base/cpu.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c index 91bbb1959d8d..691eeea2f19a 100644 --- a/drivers/base/cpu.c +++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static const struct attribute_group *hotplugable_cpu_attr_groups[] = { struct cpu_attr { struct device_attribute attr; - const struct cpumask *const * const map; + const struct cpumask *const map; }; static ssize_t show_cpus_attr(struct device *dev, @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static ssize_t show_cpus_attr(struct device *dev, { struct cpu_attr *ca = container_of(attr, struct cpu_attr, attr); - return cpumap_print_to_pagebuf(true, buf, *ca->map); + return cpumap_print_to_pagebuf(true, buf, ca->map); } #define _CPU_ATTR(name, map) \ @@ -217,9 +217,9 @@ static ssize_t show_cpus_attr(struct device *dev, /* Keep in sync with cpu_subsys_attrs */ static struct cpu_attr cpu_attrs[] = { - _CPU_ATTR(online, &cpu_online_mask), - _CPU_ATTR(possible, &cpu_possible_mask), - _CPU_ATTR(present, &cpu_present_mask), + _CPU_ATTR(online, &__cpu_online_mask), + _CPU_ATTR(possible, &__cpu_possible_mask), + _CPU_ATTR(present, &__cpu_present_mask), }; /* -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/