linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] clockevents: make clockevents

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Message-Id: <20240204-bus_cleanup-time-v1-2-207ec18e24b8@marliere.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 10:40:16 -0300
From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
To: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 
 Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
 "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] clockevents: make clockevents_subsys const

Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
move the clockevents_subsys variable to be a constant structure as well,
placing it into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@...liere.net>
---
 kernel/time/clockevents.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 960143b183cd..a7ca458cdd9c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ void tick_cleanup_dead_cpu(int cpu)
 #endif

 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
-static struct bus_type clockevents_subsys = {
+static const struct bus_type clockevents_subsys = {
 	.name		= "clockevents",
 	.dev_name       = "clockevent",
 };

-- 
2.43.0