Re: [QUESTION] mm: Redundant const parameter?

[Dev Jain]

I was just about to hit git send-email for a patch-series of 2, I 
noticed your reply :)


On 5/31/24 17:47, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 04:42:59PM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
> > Hi Chengming,
> >
> > In mm/slub.c, you had defined slab_test_node_partial() to take a const
> > parameter.
> >
> > Is there any point of taking in a const, when you are anyways typecasting it
> > to
> >
> > a (struct folio *) from (const struct folio *) ? In fact, at the place where
> > you call
> >
> > slab_test_node_partial(), the struct slab *slab is not const.
> I have a patch to fix this; hang on a second ...