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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 8/8] ARM: make nr_irqs a constant



On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 06:10:58PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On ARM the maximum number of IRQs is a constant, but we share it being
> a variable to match x86. Since we are not supposed to alter it, let's
> mark it as "const" to avoid accidental change.
> 
> Suggested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  xen/arch/arm/irq.c        | 2 +-
>  xen/include/asm-arm/irq.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/irq.c b/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
> index 62103a20e3..d229cb6871 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
>  #include <asm/gic.h>
>  #include <asm/vgic.h>
>  
> -unsigned int __read_mostly nr_irqs = NR_IRQS;
> +const unsigned int __read_mostly nr_irqs = NR_IRQS;

Shouldn't you remove the __read_mostly attribute, so the symbol it's
placed at the .rodata section by the compiler?

Roger.

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