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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tree sweep to fix up initconst
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:33:54 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1109160126550.2723@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316117394-21666-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Andi Kleen wrote:

> This is a global tree sweep to fix up initconst section problems.
> 
> Any variable const in initdata must be marked __initconst, not initdata.
> const __read_mostly is not allowed.
> 
> Otherwise the global sections can get a read only marking and in some
> circumstances the compiler/and or the linker will detect conflicts.

In some circumstances?  Care to explain that in detail?
 
> This patchkit aims to fix it up everywhere.

Aims? How did you generate these patches? [grep|compile+look] and hack
or did you actually use something sensible like coccinelle?
 
> Also available in git://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc.git const-sections
> 
> Note I plan to ask Linus to pull this directly.

You can plan what you want, but unless you provide substantial
information please target your plan towards /dev/null

Thanks,

	tglx

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-15 20:09 Tree sweep to fix up initconst Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 01/27] Initconst section fixes for ARM Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 02/27] Initconst section fixes for FRV Andi Kleen
2011-09-20 15:18   ` David Howells
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 03/27] Initconst section fixes for H8300 Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 04/27] Initconst section fixes for IA64 Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 05/27] Initconst section fixes for M68K Andi Kleen
2011-10-31 18:05   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 06/27] Initconst section fixes for MIPS Andi Kleen
2011-09-22 16:59   ` Ralf Baechle
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 07/27] Initconst section fixes for POWERPC Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:45   ` Josh Boyer
2011-09-15 20:48     ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:56       ` Josh Boyer
2011-09-15 20:57         ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 23:04           ` Josh Boyer
2011-09-15 23:10             ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 23:26           ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-09-15 21:43       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 08/27] Initconst section fixes for SH Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 09/27] Initconst section fixes for X86 Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 10/27] Initconst section fixes for CPUFREQ Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 21:43   ` Dave Jones
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 11/27] Initconst section fixes for EDAC Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 12/27] Initconst section fixes for hwmon Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 13/27] Initconst section fixes for IDE Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 21:12   ` David Miller
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 14/27] Initconst section fixes for macintosh Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 15/27] Initconst section fixes for media Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 16/27] Initconst section fixes for mfd Andi Kleen
2011-09-26  8:48   ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 17/27] Initconst section fixes for mmc Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 18/27] Initconst section fixes for mtd Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 19/27] Initconst section fixes for drivers/net Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 21:12   ` David Miller
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 20/27] Initconst section fixes for SCSI Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:18   ` James Bottomley
2011-09-15 20:30     ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 21/27] Initconst section fixes for SPI Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:57   ` Grant Likely
2011-09-15 20:59     ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 22/27] Initconst section fixes for TTY Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 23/27] Initconst section fixes for VIDEO Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 24/27] Initconst section fixes for watchdog Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 25/27] Initconst section fixes for percpu Andi Kleen
2011-09-17  0:41   ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 26/27] Initconst section fixes for net Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 21:12   ` David Miller
2011-09-15 20:09 ` [PATCH 27/27] Initconst section fixes for lib Andi Kleen
2011-09-15 23:33 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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