Those strings are immutable as well. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/migrate.h | 2 +- mm/debug.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/migrate.h +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ enum migrate_reason { }; /* In mm/debug.c; also keep sync with include/trace/events/migrate.h */ -extern char *migrate_reason_names[MR_TYPES]; +extern const char *migrate_reason_names[MR_TYPES]; static inline struct page *new_page_nodemask(struct page *page, int preferred_nid, nodemask_t *nodemask) --- a/mm/debug.c +++ b/mm/debug.c @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ #include "internal.h" -char *migrate_reason_names[MR_TYPES] = { +const char *migrate_reason_names[MR_TYPES] = { "compaction", "memory_failure", "memory_hotplug",