linux-kernel - Re: Ack to merge through DRM? WAS [PATCH v5 1/9] fs: Constify vma argument to vma_is

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Message-ID: <0b19b68b-0bbd-f51c-67da-bd6983ae45b2@shipmail.org>
Date:   Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:30:16 +0100
From:   Thomas Hellström (VMware) 
        <thomas_os@...pmail.org>
To:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ack to merge through DRM? WAS [PATCH v5 1/9] fs: Constify vma
 argument to vma_is_dax

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On 3/3/20 11:28 AM, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
> Alexander,
>
> Could you ack merging the below patch through a DRM tree?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Hellstrom
>
>
> From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
>
>
> The function is used by upcoming vma_is_special_huge() with which we want
> to use a const vma argument. Since for vma_is_dax() the vma argument is
> only dereferenced for reading, constify it.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@...hat.com>
> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@....com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
> Reviewed-by: Roland Scheidegger <sroland@...are.com>
> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
> ---
> include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 3cd4fe6b845e..2b38ce5b73ad 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -3391,7 +3391,7 @@ static inline bool io_is_direct(struct file *filp)
> return (filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) || IS_DAX(filp->f_mapping->host);
> }
> -static inline bool vma_is_dax(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +static inline bool vma_is_dax(const struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> {
> return vma->vm_file && IS_DAX(vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host);
> }
>