linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/17] percpu: mark const init data with __initconst instead of _

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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:12:18 +0200
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	kernel@...gutronix.de, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 01/17] percpu: mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata

As long as there is no other non-const variable marked __initdata in the
same compilation unit it doesn't hurt. If there were one however
compilation would fail with

	error: $variablename causes a section type conflict

because a section containing const variables is marked read only and so
cannot contain non-const variables.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
---
 mm/percpu.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index f47af91..5e812f5 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ int __init pcpu_setup_first_chunk(const struct pcpu_alloc_info *ai,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 
-const char *pcpu_fc_names[PCPU_FC_NR] __initdata = {
+const char *pcpu_fc_names[PCPU_FC_NR] __initconst = {
 	[PCPU_FC_AUTO]	= "auto",
 	[PCPU_FC_EMBED]	= "embed",
 	[PCPU_FC_PAGE]	= "page",
-- 
1.7.9.1

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