[PATCH] pinctrl: st: constify gpio_chip structure

Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva at embeddedor.com
Tue Jul 11 11:15:19 PDT 2017


This structure is only used to copy into other structure, so declare
it as const.

This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:

@r disable optional_qualifier@
identifier i;
position p;
@@
static struct gpio_chip i at p = { ... };

@ok@
identifier r.i;
expression e;
position p;
@@
e = i at p;

@bad@
position p != {r.p,ok.p};
identifier r.i;
struct gpio_chip e;
@@
e at i@p

@depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
identifier r.i;
@@
static
+const
 struct gpio_chip i = { ... };

In the following log you can see a significant difference in the code size
and data segment, hence in the dec segment. This log is the output
of the size command, before and after the code change:

before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  21671    3632     128   25431    6357 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.o

after:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  21366    3576     128   25070    61ee drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.o

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva at embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.c b/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.c
index 3ae8066..5d4789d 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.c
@@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ static void st_gpio_irqmux_handler(struct irq_desc *desc)
 	chained_irq_exit(chip, desc);
 }
 
-static struct gpio_chip st_gpio_template = {
+static const struct gpio_chip st_gpio_template = {
 	.request		= gpiochip_generic_request,
 	.free			= gpiochip_generic_free,
 	.get			= st_gpio_get,
-- 
2.5.0




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