Re: [PATCH RESEND] time/timecounter: fix the lie that struct cyclecounter is const

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Tue, Jul 01 2025 at 14:32, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> In both the read callback for struct cyclecounter, and in struct
> timecounter, struct cyclecounter is declared as a const pointer.
> Unfortunatly, a number of users of this pointer treat it as a non-const
> pointer as it is burried in a larger structure that is heavily modified
> by the callback function when accessed.  This lie had been hidden by the
> fact that container_of() "casts away" a const attribute of a pointer
> without any compiler warning happening at all.
>
> Fix this all up by removing the const attribute in the needed places so
> that everyone can see that the structure really isn't const, but can,
> and is, modified by the users of it.
>
> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> First version seems to have been ignored:
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/r/2025052321-plank-hardcopy-e895@gregkh
> so resent

Duh, sorry. I had seen it and I actually tagged it for merging, but
typoed the tag so it went into the archive ....

Let me pick it up now.

Thanks,

        tglx