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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hmm: constify hmm_devmem_page_get_drvdata() parameter
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:40:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002144042.e33ff3cf7dc95845e255d2c0@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1506972774-10191-1-git-send-email-jglisse@redhat.com>

On Mon,  2 Oct 2017 15:32:54 -0400 Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
> 
> Constify pointer parameter to avoid issue when use from code that
> only has const struct page pointer to use in the first place.

That's rather vague.  Does such calling code exist in the kernel?  This
affects the which-kernel-gets-patched decision.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-02 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-02 19:32 Jérôme Glisse
2017-10-02 21:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2017-10-02 21:47   ` Jerome Glisse
2017-10-02 21:54   ` Ralph Campbell

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