The patch titled
Subject: hexdump: Make test data really const
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
hexdump-make-test-data-really-const.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hexdump-make-test-data-really-const.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hexdump-make-test-data-really-const.patch
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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: hexdump: Make test data really const
The test data arrays, containing pointers to test strings, are never
modified, so they can be const, too. Hence mark them "const" and
"__initconst".
This moves 28 pointers from ".init.data" to ".init.rodata".
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/test-hexdump.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN lib/test-hexdump.c~hexdump-make-test-data-really-const lib/test-hexdump.c
--- a/lib/test-hexdump.c~hexdump-make-test-data-really-const
+++ a/lib/test-hexdump.c
@@ -25,19 +25,19 @@ static const char * const test_data_1_le
"4c", "d1", "19", "99", "43", "b1", "af", "0c",
};
-static const char *test_data_2_le[] __initdata = {
+static const char * const test_data_2_le[] __initconst = {
"32be", "7bdb", "180a", "b293",
"ba70", "24c4", "837d", "9b34",
"9ca6", "ad31", "0f9c", "e9ac",
"d14c", "9919", "b143", "0caf",
};
-static const char *test_data_4_le[] __initdata = {
+static const char * const test_data_4_le[] __initconst = {
"7bdb32be", "b293180a", "24c4ba70", "9b34837d",
"ad319ca6", "e9ac0f9c", "9919d14c", "0cafb143",
};
-static const char *test_data_8_le[] __initdata = {
+static const char * const test_data_8_le[] __initconst = {
"b293180a7bdb32be", "9b34837d24c4ba70",
"e9ac0f9cad319ca6", "0cafb1439919d14c",
};
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
hexdump-make-test-data-really-const.patch
linux-next.patch
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