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Message-ID: <87zgyipfsl.wl-maz@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:31:06 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@...aptics.com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: add __ro_after_init and __init

On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 07:04:44 +0100,
Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@...aptics.com> wrote:
> 
> Some functions are not needed after booting, so mark them as __init
> to move them to the .init section.
> 
> Some global variables are never modified after init, so can be
> __ro_after_init.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@...aptics.com>

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>

	M.

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