The patch titled
Subject: mm/mmzone.c: make "migratetype_names" const char *
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-make-migratetype_names-const-char.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-make-migratetype_names-const-char.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-make-migratetype_names-const-char.patch
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/mmzone.c: make "migratetype_names" const char *
Those strings are immutable in fact.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181124090327.GA10877@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-make-migratetype_names-const-char
+++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ enum migratetype {
};
/* In mm/page_alloc.c; keep in sync also with show_migration_types() there */
-extern char * const migratetype_names[MIGRATE_TYPES];
+extern const char * const migratetype_names[MIGRATE_TYPES];
#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
# define is_migrate_cma(migratetype) unlikely((migratetype) == MIGRATE_CMA)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-make-migratetype_names-const-char
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static char * const zone_names[MAX_NR_ZO
#endif
};
-char * const migratetype_names[MIGRATE_TYPES] = {
+const char * const migratetype_names[MIGRATE_TYPES] = {
"Unmovable",
"Movable",
"Reclaimable",
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are
proc-update-maintainers-with-proctxt.patch
mm-make-migratetype_names-const-char.patch
mm-make-migrate_reason_names-const-char.patch
mm-make-free_reserved_area-return-const-char.patch
make-initcall_level_names-const-char.patch
coding-style-dont-use-extern-with-function-prototypes.patch
