linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] stacktrace: Constify 'entries' arguments

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Message-Id: <20190722182443.216015-3-bvanassche@acm.org>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:24:41 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] stacktrace: Constify 'entries' arguments

Make it clear to humans and to the compiler that the stack trace
('entries') arguments are not modified.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
---
 include/linux/stacktrace.h | 4 ++--
 kernel/stacktrace.c        | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/stacktrace.h b/include/linux/stacktrace.h
index f0cfd12cb45e..83bd8cb475d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/stacktrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/stacktrace.h
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ struct task_struct;
 struct pt_regs;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
-void stack_trace_print(unsigned long *trace, unsigned int nr_entries,
+void stack_trace_print(const unsigned long *trace, unsigned int nr_entries,
 		       int spaces);
-int stack_trace_snprint(char *buf, size_t size, unsigned long *entries,
+int stack_trace_snprint(char *buf, size_t size, const unsigned long *entries,
 			unsigned int nr_entries, int spaces);
 unsigned int stack_trace_save(unsigned long *store, unsigned int size,
 			      unsigned int skipnr);
diff --git a/kernel/stacktrace.c b/kernel/stacktrace.c
index f5440abb7532..6d1f68b7e528 100644
--- a/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  * @nr_entries:	Number of entries in the storage array
  * @spaces:	Number of leading spaces to print
  */
-void stack_trace_print(unsigned long *entries, unsigned int nr_entries,
+void stack_trace_print(const unsigned long *entries, unsigned int nr_entries,
 		       int spaces)
 {
 	unsigned int i;
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(stack_trace_print);
  *
  * Return: Number of bytes printed.
  */
-int stack_trace_snprint(char *buf, size_t size, unsigned long *entries,
+int stack_trace_snprint(char *buf, size_t size, const unsigned long *entries,
 			unsigned int nr_entries, int spaces)
 {
 	unsigned int generated, i, total = 0;
-- 
2.22.0.657.g960e92d24f-goog