[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/autofs4/autofs_i.h b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
index 216b1a3..6b4cec3 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
+++ b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
@@ -168,11 +168,11 @@
/* Operations structures */
-extern struct inode_operations autofs4_symlink_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations autofs4_dir_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations autofs4_root_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations autofs4_indirect_root_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations autofs4_direct_root_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations autofs4_symlink_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations autofs4_dir_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations autofs4_root_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations autofs4_indirect_root_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations autofs4_direct_root_inode_operations;
extern const struct file_operations autofs4_dir_operations;
extern const struct file_operations autofs4_root_operations;