From: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 17:47:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002214722.GA5184@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171002144042.e33ff3cf7dc95845e255d2c0@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:40:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 15:32:54 -0400 Jerome 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.
This is use by device driver, no driver upstream yet so it does not
affect anybody upstream yet.
Jerome
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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
2017-10-02 21:47 ` Jerome Glisse [this message]
2017-10-02 21:54 ` Ralph Campbell
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