[PATCH v4 01/19] ARM: Make the argument to virt_to_phys() "const volatile"

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:00:10AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > On 01/24/2011 09:55 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > Changing the virt_to_phys() argument to "const volatile void *" avoids
> > > compiler warnings in some situations where this function is used.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> > > Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> > Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> > 
> > Any chance we can get this one patch into 2.6.38? It fixes a warning for
> > MSM.
> 
> Stephen, you might want to have a look at why the warning even appears
> on MSM. Most uses of 'volatile' are misguided, and there could be an
> actual bug in there.

It's actually the right thing - look at x86's definition:

static inline phys_addr_t virt_to_phys(volatile void *address)