rcu: Tell the compiler that rcu_state_p is immutable

This commit adds a "const" tag to the declarations of rcu_state_p,
which should allow the compiler to generate better code and also to
catch erroneous assignments to this variable.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 0628df155970..f031700514dd 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ struct rcu_state sname##_state = { \
 RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_sched, 's', call_rcu_sched);
 RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_bh, 'b', call_rcu_bh);
 
-static struct rcu_state *rcu_state_p;
+static struct rcu_state *const rcu_state_p;
 LIST_HEAD(rcu_struct_flavors);
 
 /* Increase (but not decrease) the CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF at boot time. */