[PATCH 01/11] KVM: ARM/arm64: fix non-const declaration of function returning const

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue Aug 26 07:21:06 PDT 2014


On 26/08/14 15:13, Will Deacon wrote:
> Sparse kicks up about a type mismatch for kvm_target_cpu:
> 
> arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c:271:25: error: symbol 'kvm_target_cpu' redeclared with different type (originally declared at ./arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h:45) - different modifiers
> 
> so fix this by adding the missing const attribute to the function
> declaration.
> 
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

	M.

> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h   | 2 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 6dfb404f6c46..fcb12a6f7db5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
>  
>  struct kvm_vcpu;
>  u32 *kvm_vcpu_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u8 reg_num, u32 mode);
> -int kvm_target_cpu(void);
> +int __attribute_const__ kvm_target_cpu(void);
>  int kvm_reset_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>  void kvm_reset_coprocs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index e10c45a578e3..44094e559848 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
>  #define KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES 3
>  
>  struct kvm_vcpu;
> -int kvm_target_cpu(void);
> +int __attribute_const__ kvm_target_cpu(void);
>  int kvm_reset_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>  int kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension(long ext);
>  
> 


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