[PATCH v3] ARM: appropriate __init annotation for const data
Nicolas Pitre
nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Tue Aug 11 05:16:34 PDT 2015
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 06:27:52PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Init data marked const should be annotated with __initconst for
> > correctness and not __initdata. In some cases the array gathering
> > references to that data has to be marked const as well. This fixes
> > LTO builds that otherwise fail with section mismatch errors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
>
> Can we please get a little smarter at splitting up changes between core
> ARM code and SoC ARM code please.
>
> This now causes a delete/modify conflict between my tree and arm-soc,
> because I'm now carrying ARMs patches which move arch/arm/kernel/psci.c
> to drivers/firmware.
This is the only occurrence in the core code so it slipped through.
Sorry about that.
> Right now, my resolution for that conflict is to just delete the old
> file, I'm not even checking to see whether the new one needs this
> change applied. If it does, please submit a change on top of my
> tree.
No problem.
Nicolas
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