rcu: Tell the compiler that rcu_state_p is immutable
This commit adds a "const" tag to the declarations of rcu_state_p,
which should allow the compiler to generate better code and also to
catch erroneous assignments to this variable.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 8f81427..18b057a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_preempt, 'p', call_rcu);
-static struct rcu_state *rcu_state_p = &rcu_preempt_state;
+static struct rcu_state *const rcu_state_p = &rcu_preempt_state;
static int rcu_preempted_readers_exp(struct rcu_node *rnp);
static void rcu_report_exp_rnp(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_node *rnp,
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU */
-static struct rcu_state *rcu_state_p = &rcu_sched_state;
+static struct rcu_state *const rcu_state_p = &rcu_sched_state;
/*
* Tell them what RCU they are running.