... to clarify to callers that they don't need to fear the pointed to data changing (which will be made use of subsequently). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c @@ -2411,7 +2411,7 @@ int hvm_set_cr4(unsigned long value, boo bool_t hvm_virtual_to_linear_addr( enum x86_segment seg, - struct segment_register *reg, + const struct segment_register *reg, unsigned long offset, unsigned int bytes, enum hvm_access_type access_type, --- a/xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/hvm.h +++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/hvm.h @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ enum hvm_access_type { }; bool_t hvm_virtual_to_linear_addr( enum x86_segment seg, - struct segment_register *reg, + const struct segment_register *reg, unsigned long offset, unsigned int bytes, enum hvm_access_type access_type,