linux-kernel - Re: [VFS PATCH] constify more dcache.h inlined helpers.

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Message-ID: <87h8uufy6q.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
Date:   Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:41:17 +1100
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [VFS PATCH] constify more dcache.h inlined helpers.

On Wed, Aug 02 2017, NeilBrown wrote:

> Many of the inlines in dcache.h were changed to accept
> const struct pointers in commit f0d3b3ded999 ("constify dcache.c
> inlined helpers where possible").
> This patch allows 'const' in a couple that were added since then.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>

Ping ... should I be sending this somewhere else?  Is there a problem
with it?

Thanks,
NeilBrown


> ---
>  include/linux/dcache.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
> index aae1cdb76851..66ca42b1935b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dcache.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
> @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static inline void dont_mount(struct dentry *dentry)
>  
>  extern void __d_lookup_done(struct dentry *);
>  
> -static inline int d_in_lookup(struct dentry *dentry)
> +static inline int d_in_lookup(const struct dentry *dentry)
>  {
>  	return dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP;
>  }
> @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ static inline bool d_really_is_positive(const struct dentry *dentry)
>  	return dentry->d_inode != NULL;
>  }
>  
> -static inline int simple_positive(struct dentry *dentry)
> +static inline int simple_positive(const struct dentry *dentry)
>  {
>  	return d_really_is_positive(dentry) && !d_unhashed(dentry);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.14.0.rc0.dirty

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