linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 3/8] x86: add generic function to modify more calls using int3 framework

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:11:49 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/8] x86: add generic function to modify more calls
 using int3 framework

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:18:01 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com> wrote:

  
> >> +static char bp_int3;
> > 
> > bp_int3 is not going to be anything but 0xcc. Let's change that to:
> > 
> > static char bp_int3 = 0xcc;
> > 
> > And remove the other initializations.
> 
> just a comment.
> If it is always 0xcc, it should be a const variable.
> 

Yeah, I was thinking that too. As long as sizeof(bp_int3) still works,
which it should for just adding a "const", and not make it a macro.

static const bp_int3 = 0xcc;

Thanks!

-- Steve
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