On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 06:24:51PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) > produced this warning: > > kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c: In function 'kdb_task_state_char': > kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:639:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 'is_idle_task' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default] > include/linux/sched.h:2097:20: note: expected 'struct task_struct *' but argument is of type 'const struct task_struct *' > > Introduced by commit 7fc20c5cbdd1 ("kdb: Make KDB use the new > is_idle_task() API"). > > This begs the question: Why does is_idle_task() not take a "const struct task_struct *"? No reason. So I have pushed the following patch to -rcu. ;-) Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sched: Add "const" to is_idle_task() parameter This patch fixes a build warning in -next due to a const pointer being passed to is_idle_task(). Because is_idle_task() does not modify anything, this commit adds the "const" to is_idle_task()'s argument declaration. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 4a7e4d3..56fa25a 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2074,7 +2074,7 @@ extern struct task_struct *idle_task(int cpu); * is_idle_task - is the specified task an idle task? * @tsk: the task in question. */ -static inline bool is_idle_task(struct task_struct *p) +static inline bool is_idle_task(const struct task_struct *p) { return p->pid == 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html