linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sparc32: mm: srmmu: add __ro_after_init to sparc32_cachetlb

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:33:13 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bhumirks@...il.com
Cc:     julia.lawall@...6.fr, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        keescook@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc32: mm: srmmu: add __ro_after_init to
 sparc32_cachetlb_ops structures

From: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 18:01:54 +0530

> The objects viking_ops, viking_sun4d_smp_ops and smp_cachetlb_ops of
> type sparc32_cachetlb_ops are not modified anywhere after getting modified 
> in the init functions. Inside init their reference is also stored in a
> pointer of type const struct sparc32_cachetlb_ops *. So these structures 
> are never modified after init, therefore add __ro_after to the declaration 
> of these structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.