linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: vb2 vmalloc: Constify dma_buf

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Date:   Tue, 04 Jul 2017 07:23:09 +0200
From:   Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>, pawel@...iak.com,
        kyungmin.park@...sung.com, mchehab@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: vb2 vmalloc: Constify dma_buf_ops structures.

Hi Arvind,

On 2017-07-01 13:37, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> dma_buf_ops are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with dma_buf_ops provided by <linux/dma-buf.h> work with
> const dma_buf_ops. So mark the non-const structs as const.
>
> File size before:
>     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>     3171	    192	      0	   3363	    d23 drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-vmalloc.o
>
> File size After adding 'const':
>     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>     3291	     80	      0	   3371	    d2b drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-vmalloc.o
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>

Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>

> ---
>   drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-vmalloc.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-vmalloc.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-vmalloc.c
> index b337d78..6bc130f 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-vmalloc.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-vmalloc.c
> @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static int vb2_vmalloc_dmabuf_ops_mmap(struct dma_buf *dbuf,
>   	return vb2_vmalloc_mmap(dbuf->priv, vma);
>   }
>   
> -static struct dma_buf_ops vb2_vmalloc_dmabuf_ops = {
> +static const struct dma_buf_ops vb2_vmalloc_dmabuf_ops = {
>   	.attach = vb2_vmalloc_dmabuf_ops_attach,
>   	.detach = vb2_vmalloc_dmabuf_ops_detach,
>   	.map_dma_buf = vb2_vmalloc_dmabuf_ops_map,

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland