linux-kernel - Tree sweep to fix up initconst

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Date:	Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:09:27 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Tree sweep to fix up initconst

This is a global tree sweep to fix up initconst section problems.

Any variable const in initdata must be marked __initconst, not initdata.
const __read_mostly is not allowed.

Otherwise the global sections can get a read only marking and in some
circumstances the compiler/and or the linker will detect conflicts.

This patchkit aims to fix it up everywhere.

Also available in git://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc.git const-sections

Note I plan to ask Linus to pull this directly.

-Andi
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