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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a test for const with __read_mostly uses
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 02:28:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150409002851.GV2366@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428538489.22406.65.camel@perches.com>

On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 05:14:49PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> const objects shouldn't be __read_mostly.  They are read-only.
> 
> Marking these objects as __read_mostly causes section conflicts
> with LTO linking.
> 
> So add a test to try to avoid this issue.

Thanks Joe. Looks good thanks. I suspect excluding * 
will miss quite a few cases, but there's no way around it.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-09  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-08 13:06 [PATCH 1/2] Don't let LATENCYTOP and LOCKDEP select KALLSYMS_ALL Andi Kleen
2015-04-08 13:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] test-hexdump.c: Fix initconst confusion Andi Kleen
2015-04-08 22:35   ` Andrew Morton
2015-04-08 23:52     ` Andi Kleen
2015-04-09  0:14       ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a test for const with __read_mostly uses Joe Perches
2015-04-09  0:28         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2015-04-09  0:33           ` Joe Perches
2015-04-16 19:33       ` [PATCH 2/2] test-hexdump.c: Fix initconst confusion Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-04-16 21:21         ` Andi Kleen

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