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checkpatch: add a test for const with __read_mostly uses
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:44:42 +0000 (12:44 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:03:58 +0000 (09:03 -0400)
commitc17893c7407fbe988f5901596c3e5e75c0dc0f67
treef3e590db15b6f5fac82efbc8b5353d9c382b715dtree | snapshot (tar.gz zip)
parentd7fe8065ad891a2ad38b73ff10b97d08f0fb3b0bcommit | diff
checkpatch: add a test for const with __read_mostly uses

const objects shouldn't be __read_mostly.  They are read-only.

Marking these objects as __read_mostly causes section conflicts with LTO
linking.

So add a test to try to avoid this issue.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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