linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters

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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 16:57:41 -0700
From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
To: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] mm: establish const-correctness for pointer
 parameters

On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 10:50:09PM +0200, Max Kellermann wrote:
> For improved const-correctness in the low-level memory-management
> subsystem, which provides a basis for further const-ification further
> up the call stack (e.g. filesystems).
> 
> This patch series splitted into smaller patches was initially posted
> as a single large patch:
> 
>  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250827192233.447920-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com/
> 
> I started this work when I tried to constify the Ceph filesystem code,
> but found that to be impossible because many "mm" functions accept
> non-const pointer, even though they modify nothing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com>

For the series:

Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>