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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-03-04 07:39:27 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-05-27 12:57:59 -0700
commitb28a7c016618e5e32e0703e3dd111dbba02715ff (patch)
tree87f1d54c122911059cfac2b1933ea07b62d6a7de /kernel/rcu/tree.c
parent727b705baf7d091a9bc5494d7f1d9699b6932531 (diff)
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rcu: Tell the compiler that rcu_state_p is immutable
This commit adds a "const" tag to the declarations of rcu_state_p, which should allow the compiler to generate better code and also to catch erroneous assignments to this variable. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 0628df155970..f031700514dd 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ struct rcu_state sname##_state = { \
RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_sched, 's', call_rcu_sched);
RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_bh, 'b', call_rcu_bh);
-static struct rcu_state *rcu_state_p;
+static struct rcu_state *const rcu_state_p;
LIST_HEAD(rcu_struct_flavors);
/* Increase (but not decrease) the CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF at boot time. */