linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: Constify npc_kpu_profile

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Message-ID: <20200914205254.GA2677@rikard>
Date:   Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:52:54 +0200
From:   Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jerin Jacob <jerinj@...vell.com>,
        Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>,
        Linu Cherian <lcherian@...vell.com>,
        Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: Constify
 npc_kpu_profile_{action,cam}

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 10:27:01PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-09-12 at 00:00 +0200, Rikard Falkeborn wrote:
> > These are never modified, so constify them to allow the compiler to
> > place them in read-only memory. This moves about 25kB to read-only
> > memory as seen by the output of the size command.
> 
> Nice.
> 
> Did you find this by tool or inspection?
> 
> 

Inspection, aided by some semi-clever greping.