Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Drop 'const' from argument of vq_present()

[Marc Zyngier]

On 04/06/2019 09:43, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:13:19AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> We currently get following compilation warning:
>>
>> arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c: In function 'set_sve_vls':
>> arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c:262:18: warning: passing argument 1 of 'vq_present' from incompatible pointer type
>> arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c:212:13: note: expected 'const u64 (* const)[8]' but argument is of type 'u64 (*)[8]'
> 
> Since the vq_present() function does not modify the vqs array, I don't
> understand why this warning. Compiler bug?

Yeah, I'm a bit puzzled by that one. Also checked with clang, which is
usually much more picky about things, but it didn't complain.

We could drop the const without much harm, but I really wish we weed out
these ancient compilers...

Thanks,

	M.
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