[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1
Many struct inode_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/fs/ext3/symlink.c b/fs/ext3/symlink.c
index 4f79122..ff7b4cc 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/symlink.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
return NULL;
}
-struct inode_operations ext3_symlink_inode_operations = {
+const struct inode_operations ext3_symlink_inode_operations = {
.readlink = generic_readlink,
.follow_link = page_follow_link_light,
.put_link = page_put_link,
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
#endif
};
-struct inode_operations ext3_fast_symlink_inode_operations = {
+const struct inode_operations ext3_fast_symlink_inode_operations = {
.readlink = generic_readlink,
.follow_link = ext3_follow_link,
#ifdef CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR