linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip v2] x86/percpu: Introduce const-qualified const_pcpu

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Message-ID: <ZTY9CvT0B1a1M+Tk@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:29:46 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v2] x86/percpu: Introduce const-qualified
 const_pcpu_hot


* Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com> wrote:

>  DECLARE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct pcpu_hot, pcpu_hot);
>  
> +/* const-qualified alias to pcpu_hot, aliased by linker. */
> +DECLARE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(const struct pcpu_hot __percpu_seg_override,
> +			const_pcpu_hot);

I added the fix below - just like pcpu_hot, const_pcpu_hot needs to be 
exported too, as it's (indirectly) used by various kernel modules.

Thanks,

	Ingo

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 382d4e6b848d..4cc0ab0dfbb5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -2051,6 +2051,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct pcpu_hot, pcpu_hot) = {
 	.top_of_stack	= TOP_OF_INIT_STACK,
 };
 EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(pcpu_hot);
+EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(const_pcpu_hot);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 DEFINE_PER_CPU_FIRST(struct fixed_percpu_data,