The patch titled
Subject: mm/swap_state: constify static struct attribute_group
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-swap_state-constify-static-struct-attribute_group.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-swap_state-constify-static-struct-attribute_group.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-swap_state-constify-static-struct-attribute_group.patch
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From: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/swap_state: constify static struct attribute_group
The only usage of swap_attr_group is to pass its address to
sysfs_create_group() which takes a pointer to const attribute_group. Make
it const to allow the compiler to put it in read-only memory.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201233254.91809-1-rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Amy Parker <enbyamy@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swap_state.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/swap_state.c~mm-swap_state-constify-static-struct-attribute_group
+++ a/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ static struct attribute *swap_attrs[] =
NULL,
};
-static struct attribute_group swap_attr_group = {
+static const struct attribute_group swap_attr_group = {
.attrs = swap_attrs,
};
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-swap_state-constify-static-struct-attribute_group.patch
