[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 1
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 01ad710..36f125c 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
__be16 sport, __be16 dport);
#ifndef MODULE
-extern struct file_operations random_fops, urandom_fops;
+extern const struct file_operations random_fops, urandom_fops;
#endif
unsigned int get_random_int(void);