Re: [PATCH v7 4/5] x86/paravirt: Remove const mark from x86_hyper_xen_hvm variable

[Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>]

On 2019/7/16 18:57, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 11.07.19 14:02, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
>> .. as "nopv" support needs it to be changeable at boot up stage.
>>
>> Checkpatch report warning, so move variable declarations from
>> hypervisor.c to hypervisor.h
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
>> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
>> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
>> ---
>>   arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 8 ++++++++
>>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c  | 8 --------
>>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h 
>> b/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
>> index f7b4c53..e41cbf2 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
>> @@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ struct hypervisor_x86 {
>>       bool ignore_nopv;
>>   };
>>   +extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_vmware;
>> +extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_ms_hyperv;
>> +extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_xen_pv;
>> +extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_kvm;
>> +extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_jailhouse;
>> +extern const struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_acrn;
>> +extern struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_xen_hvm;
>
> This should either stay const and be changed in patch 5, or you
> should adapt its definition in arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c in
> this patch.

Ok, thanks for your suggestion.

I'll choose 2nd opinion as I don't need to change descripton with that.

Zhenzhong