[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 046/129] KVM: ARM/arm64: fix non-const declaration of function returning const

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri May 22 08:57:11 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

commit 6951e48bff0b55d2a8e825a953fc1f8e3a34bf1c upstream.

Sparse kicks up about a type mismatch for kvm_target_cpu:

arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c:271:25: error: symbol 'kvm_target_cpu' redeclared with different type (originally declared at ./arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h:45) - different modifiers

so fix this by adding the missing const attribute to the function
declaration.

Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h   | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 193ceaf01bfd..f10a24e77134 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 struct kvm_vcpu;
 u32 *kvm_vcpu_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u8 reg_num, u32 mode);
-int kvm_target_cpu(void);
+int __attribute_const__ kvm_target_cpu(void);
 int kvm_reset_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 void kvm_reset_coprocs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 92242ce06309..de90385e7379 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 #define KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES 3
 
 struct kvm_vcpu;
-int kvm_target_cpu(void);
+int __attribute_const__ kvm_target_cpu(void);
 int kvm_reset_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 int kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension(long ext);
 




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