Re: Why exported const value modified by another driver not updated in original driver

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:58:20PM +0530, Manavendra Nath Manav wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Manavendra Nath Manav
> <mnm.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have declared a static const int variable in one driver and exported
> > that variable symbol. In another driver i am modifying that variable.

No, you did not export it. It's static (and static is kind of the opposite
of extern). And then you try to assign a value to a non-static variable with
the same name, which might not even exist (as the other is static, this should
not even work in my opinion).

> > The other driver prints the modified value but the original driver
> > retains the original value. When both virtual and physical addresses
> > of the variable as seen by both drivers are same, how is this even
> > possible. Is it a kernel bug?

It only works because the compiler optimized the value = 123 away,
and replaced value with 123 in the first module everywhere, as it
is declared const and thus cannot be changed, so there's no reason
to read it from memory.

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