Re: [PATCH] powercap / RAPL: mark rapl_ids array as __initconst

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 10:15:52 PM Mathias Krause wrote:
> The RAPL ids are only tested in rapl_init() which is itself an __init
> function. For the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() file2alias doesn't care about
> the section, just about the symbol name. Therefore it's safe to mark the
> rapl_ids[] array as __initconst so its memory can be released after
> initialization is done.
> 
> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>

Jacob, any comments?

> ---
>  drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
> index 63d4033eb683..62f9b322fde0 100644
> --- a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
> +++ b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
> @@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ static const struct rapl_defaults rapl_defaults_atom = {
>  		.driver_data = (kernel_ulong_t)&_ops,	\
>  		}
>  
> -static const struct x86_cpu_id rapl_ids[] = {
> +static const struct x86_cpu_id rapl_ids[] __initconst = {
>  	RAPL_CPU(0x2a, rapl_defaults_core),/* Sandy Bridge */
>  	RAPL_CPU(0x2d, rapl_defaults_core),/* Sandy Bridge EP */
>  	RAPL_CPU(0x37, rapl_defaults_atom),/* Valleyview */
> 

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.