linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/damon/vaddr: constify static mm_walk

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Date:   Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:19:36 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@...il.com>,
        SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/damon/vaddr: constify static mm_walk_ops



On 10/14/21 1:20 PM, Rikard Falkeborn wrote:
> The only usage of these structs is to pass their addresses to
> walk_page_range(), which takes a pointer to const mm_walk_ops as
> argument. Make them const to allow the compiler to put them in
> read-only memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@...il.com>
> ---
>  mm/damon/vaddr.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/damon/vaddr.c b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
> index 953c145b4f08..65d4f115fa66 100644
> --- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c
> +++ b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
> @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ static int damon_mkold_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static struct mm_walk_ops damon_mkold_ops = {
> +static const struct mm_walk_ops damon_mkold_ops = {
>  	.pmd_entry = damon_mkold_pmd_entry,
>  };
>  
> @@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ static int damon_young_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static struct mm_walk_ops damon_young_ops = {
> +static const struct mm_walk_ops damon_young_ops = {
>  	.pmd_entry = damon_young_pmd_entry,
>  };
>  
> 

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>