On 23/12/15 21:06, Julia Lawall wrote: > The cleancache_ops structure is never modified, so declare it as const. > > This also removes the __read_mostly declaration on the cleancache_ops > variable declaration, since it seems redundant with const. > > Done with the help of Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr> > > --- > > Not sure that the __read_mostly change is correct. Does it apply to the > variable, or to what the variable points to?
The variable, so... > --- a/mm/cleancache.c > +++ b/mm/cleancache.c > @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ > * cleancache_ops is set by cleancache_register_ops to contain the pointers > * to the cleancache "backend" implementation functions. > */ > -static struct cleancache_ops *cleancache_ops __read_mostly; > +static const struct cleancache_ops *cleancache_ops; ...you want to retain the __read_mostly here. David _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
