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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] x86/paravirt: Remove const mark from
 x86_hyper_xen_hvm variable
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
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Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:49:04 +0200
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On 17.07.19 08:46, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 12:26 +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
>> .. as "nopv" support needs it to be changeable at boot up stage.
>>
>> Checkpatch reports warning, so move variable declarations from
>> hypervisor.c to hypervisor.h
> []
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c
> []
>> @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static __init void xen_hvm_guest_late_init(void)
>>   #endif
>>   }
>>   
>> -const __initconst struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_xen_hvm = {
>> +struct hypervisor_x86 x86_hyper_xen_hvm __initdata = {
> 
> static?

It is being referenced from arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c


Juergen