[merged] mm-make-free_reserved_area-return-const-char.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: make free_reserved_area() return "const char *"
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-make-free_reserved_area-return-const-char.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: make free_reserved_area() return "const char *"

and propagate through down the call stack.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181124091411.GC10969@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---


--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h~mm-make-free_reserved_area-return-const-char
+++ a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ static inline uint32_t hypervisor_cpuid_
 }
 
 extern unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned long sp);
-extern void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end);
+void free_init_pages(const char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end);
 extern void free_kernel_image_pages(void *begin, void *end);
 
 void default_idle(void);
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c~mm-make-free_reserved_area-return-const-char
+++ a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long page
 	return 1;
 }
 
-void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
+void free_init_pages(const char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
 {
 	unsigned long begin_aligned, end_aligned;
 
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-make-free_reserved_area-return-const-char
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2108,7 +2108,7 @@ extern void free_initmem(void);
  * Return pages freed into the buddy system.
  */
 extern unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *start, void *end,
-					int poison, char *s);
+					int poison, const char *s);
 
 #ifdef	CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 /*
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-make-free_reserved_area-return-const-char
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7193,7 +7193,7 @@ void adjust_managed_page_count(struct pa
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(adjust_managed_page_count);
 
-unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *start, void *end, int poison, char *s)
+unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *start, void *end, int poison, const char *s)
 {
 	void *pos;
 	unsigned long pages = 0;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are

proc-delete-unnecessary-variable-in-proc_alloc_inode.patch
proc-slightly-faster-proc-limits.patch
coding-style-dont-use-extern-with-function-prototypes.patch
drop-silly-static-inline-asmlinkage-from-dump_stack.patch
make-initcall_level_names-const-char.patch