[PATCH] pinctrl: nomadik: abx500: constify gpio_chip structure

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Jul 11 2017 - 17:29:49 EST


This structure is only used to copy into another structure, so declare
it as const.

This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:

@r disable optional_qualifier@
identifier i;
position p;
@@
static struct gpio_chip i@p = { ... };

@ok@
identifier r.i;
expression e;
position p;
@@
e = i@p;

@bad@
position p != {r.p,ok.p};
identifier r.i;
struct gpio_chip e;
@@
e@i@p

@depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
identifier r.i;
@@
static
+const
struct gpio_chip i = { ... };

In the following log you can see a significant difference in the code size
and data segment, hence in the dec segment. This log is the output
of the size command, before and after the code change:

before:
text data bss dec hex filename
17545 5376 0 22921 5989 drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.o

after:
bss dec hex filename
17273 5320 0 22593 5841 drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.o

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.c b/drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.c
index f95001b..b32c0d6 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.c
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ static inline void abx500_gpio_dbg_show_one(struct seq_file *s,
#define abx500_gpio_dbg_show NULL
#endif

-static struct gpio_chip abx500gpio_chip = {
+static const struct gpio_chip abx500gpio_chip = {
.label = "abx500-gpio",
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.request = gpiochip_generic_request,
--
2.5.0