The patch titled Subject: mm/debug.c: make "migrate_reason_names[]" const char * has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-make-migrate_reason_names-const-char.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-make-migrate_reason_names-const-char.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-make-migrate_reason_names-const-char.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/debug.c: make "migrate_reason_names[]" const char * Those strings are immutable as well. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181124090508.GB10877@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/include/linux/migrate.h~mm-make-migrate_reason_names-const-char +++ a/include/linux/migrate.h @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ enum migrate_reason { }; /* In mm/debug.c; also keep sync with include/trace/events/migrate.h */ -extern char *migrate_reason_names[MR_TYPES]; +extern const char *migrate_reason_names[MR_TYPES]; static inline struct page *new_page_nodemask(struct page *page, int preferred_nid, nodemask_t *nodemask) --- a/mm/debug.c~mm-make-migrate_reason_names-const-char +++ a/mm/debug.c @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ #include "internal.h" -char *migrate_reason_names[MR_TYPES] = { +const char *migrate_reason_names[MR_TYPES] = { "compaction", "memory_failure", "memory_hotplug", _ 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