The patch titled Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: constify attribute_group structures has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-huge_memory-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-huge_memory-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-huge_memory-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: constify attribute_group structures attribute_group are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions working with attribute_group provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501157240-3876-1-git-send-email-arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memory-constify-attribute_group-structures mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memory-constify-attribute_group-structures +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ static struct attribute *hugepage_attr[] NULL, }; -static struct attribute_group hugepage_attr_group = { +static const struct attribute_group hugepage_attr_group = { .attrs = hugepage_attr, }; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx are mm-ksm-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch mm-slub-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch mm-page_idle-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch mm-huge_memory-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch mm-hugetlb-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html