[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/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 93ef099..481e84f 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@
.kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
/* .fs_flags */
};
-struct inode_operations cifs_dir_inode_ops = {
+const struct inode_operations cifs_dir_inode_ops = {
.create = cifs_create,
.lookup = cifs_lookup,
.getattr = cifs_getattr,
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@
#endif
};
-struct inode_operations cifs_file_inode_ops = {
+const struct inode_operations cifs_file_inode_ops = {
/* revalidate:cifs_revalidate, */
.setattr = cifs_setattr,
.getattr = cifs_getattr, /* do we need this anymore? */
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@
#endif
};
-struct inode_operations cifs_symlink_inode_ops = {
+const struct inode_operations cifs_symlink_inode_ops = {
.readlink = generic_readlink,
.follow_link = cifs_follow_link,
.put_link = cifs_put_link,