The patch titled
Subject: lib/string_helpers.c: constify static arrays
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
lib-string_helpersc-constify-static-arrays.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-string_helpersc-constify-static-arrays.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-string_helpersc-constify-static-arrays.patch
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From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lib/string_helpers.c: constify static arrays
Complement commit 68aecfb979 ("lib/string_helpers.c: make arrays
static") by making the arrays const -- not only pointing to const
strings. This moves them out of the data section to the r/o data
section:
text data bss dec hex filename
1150 176 0 1326 52e lib/string_helpers.old.o
1326 0 0 1326 52e lib/string_helpers.new.o
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/string_helpers.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN lib/string_helpers.c~lib-string_helpersc-constify-static-arrays lib/string_helpers.c
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c~lib-string_helpersc-constify-static-arrays
+++ a/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -25,12 +25,15 @@
int string_get_size(u64 size, const enum string_size_units units,
char *buf, int len)
{
- static const char *units_10[] = { "B", "kB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB",
- "EB", "ZB", "YB", NULL};
- static const char *units_2[] = {"B", "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", "PiB",
- "EiB", "ZiB", "YiB", NULL };
- static const char **units_str[] = {
- [STRING_UNITS_10] = units_10,
+ static const char *const units_10[] = {
+ "B", "kB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB", "EB", "ZB", "YB", NULL
+ };
+ static const char *const units_2[] = {
+ "B", "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", "PiB", "EiB", "ZiB", "YiB",
+ NULL
+ };
+ static const char *const *const units_str[] = {
+ [STRING_UNITS_10] = units_10,
[STRING_UNITS_2] = units_2,
};
static const unsigned int divisor[] = {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
lib-string_helpersc-constify-static-arrays.patch
linux-next.patch
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