Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] x86/paravirt: Remove const mark from x86_hyper_xen_hvm variable

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Wed Jul 17 2019 - 02:49:11 EST


On 17.07.19 08:46, Joe Perches wrote:
On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 12:26 +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
.. as "nopv" support needs it to be changeable at boot up stage.

Checkpatch reports warning, so move variable declarations from
hypervisor.c to hypervisor.h
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diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
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@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static __init void xen_hvm_guest_late_init(void)
#endif
}
-const __initconst struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_xen_hvm = {
+struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_xen_hvm __initdata = {

static?

It is being referenced from arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c


Juergen