From e66c33d579ea566d10e8c8695a7168aae3e02992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:50:28 -0400 Subject: rcu: Add const annotation to char * for RCU tracepoints and functions All the RCU tracepoints and functions that reference char pointers do so with just 'char *' even though they do not modify the contents of the string itself. This will cause warnings if a const char * is used in one of these functions. The RCU tracepoints store the pointer to the string to refer back to them when the trace output is displayed. As this can be minutes, hours or even days later, those strings had better be constant. This change also opens the door to allow the RCU tracepoint strings and their addresses to be exported so that userspace tracing tools can translate the contents of the pointers of the RCU tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/rcutree.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index b3832581043c..cbdeac6cea9e 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ struct rcu_state { /* for CPU stalls. */ unsigned long gp_max; /* Maximum GP duration in */ /* jiffies. */ - char *name; /* Name of structure. */ + const char *name; /* Name of structure. */ char abbr; /* Abbreviated name. */ struct list_head flavors; /* List of RCU flavors. */ struct irq_work wakeup_work; /* Postponed wakeups */ -- cgit v1.2.3