linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] mm/zswap: make type and compressor const

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Message-Id: <20180102100320.24801-2-joeypabalinas@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue,  2 Jan 2018 00:03:19 -1000
From:   Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@...il.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     sjenning@...hat.com, ddstreet@...e.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm/zswap: make type and compressor const

The characters pointed to by `zswap_compressor`, `type`, and `compressor`
aren't ever modified. Add const to the static variable and both parameters in
`zswap_pool_find_get()`, `zswap_pool_create()`, and `__zswap_param_set()`

Signed-off-by: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@...il.com>

 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index d39581a076c3aed1e9..a4f2dfaf9131694265 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ module_param_cb(enabled, &zswap_enabled_param_ops, &zswap_enabled, 0644);
 
 /* Crypto compressor to use */
 #define ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT "lzo"
-static char *zswap_compressor = ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT;
+static const char *zswap_compressor = ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT;
 static int zswap_compressor_param_set(const char *,
 				      const struct kernel_param *);
 static struct kernel_param_ops zswap_compressor_param_ops = {
@@ -475,7 +475,8 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_last_get(void)
 }
 
 /* type and compressor must be null-terminated */
-static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_find_get(char *type, char *compressor)
+static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_find_get(const char *type,
+					      const char *compressor)
 {
 	struct zswap_pool *pool;
 
@@ -495,7 +496,8 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_find_get(char *type, char *compressor)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor)
+static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(const char *type,
+					    const char *compressor)
 {
 	struct zswap_pool *pool;
 	char name[38]; /* 'zswap' + 32 char (max) num + \0 */
@@ -658,7 +660,7 @@ static void zswap_pool_put(struct zswap_pool *pool)
 
 /* val must be a null-terminated string */
 static int __zswap_param_set(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp,
-			     char *type, char *compressor)
+			     const char *type, const char *compressor)
 {
 	struct zswap_pool *pool, *put_pool = NULL;
 	char *s = strstrip((char *)val);
-- 
2.15.1