linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86: microcode: constify attribute

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:31:09 +0530
From:   Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
        x86@...nel.org, tony.luck@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86: microcode: constify attribute_group structures.

Hi,


On Thursday 20 July 2017 01:58 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 01:48:17PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
>> It's just show, how much bytes move from data segment to text segment.
>> ~arvind
>       3614	    545	   1560	   5719	   1657	x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.o
>
> 3614 + 545 = 4159
>
>       3742	    417	   1560	   5719	   1657	x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.o
>
> 3742 + 417 = 4159
>
> 3742 - 3614 = 128
>
> So 128 bytes moved to text.
Yes,
>
> I fail to see how this is relevant. Your commit message contains not
> really relevant info for such a simple change. Rather, it should just be
> a one-liner:
I have mentioned all this in commit message. I have added below
message in patch. Please check my patch.

"attribute_group are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
working with attribute_group provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with
const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const."

> "Constify attribute_group structs because they don't change at runtime."
I can add this as subject. But we should avoid lengthy subject.
Even checkpatch.pl will through warning.
>
> That's it.
>
~arvind