+ mm-slub-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch added to -mm tree

+ mm-slub-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/slub.c: constify attribute_group structures
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-slub-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slub-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slub-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch

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From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/slub.c: constify attribute_group structures

attribute_group are not supposed to change at runtime.  All functions
working with attribute_group provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with const
attribute_group.  So mark the non-const structs as const.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501157186-3749-1-git-send-email-arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/slub.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN mm/slub.c~mm-slub-constify-attribute_group-structures mm/slub.c
--- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-constify-attribute_group-structures
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -5423,7 +5423,7 @@ static struct attribute *slab_attrs[] =
 	NULL
 };
 
-static struct attribute_group slab_attr_group = {
+static const struct attribute_group slab_attr_group = {
 	.attrs = slab_attrs,
 };
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com are

mm-ksm-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
mm-slub-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
mm-page_idle-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
mm-huge_memory-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
mm-hugetlb-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch