[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2
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/hppfs/hppfs_kern.c b/fs/hppfs/hppfs_kern.c
index afd340a..bd71168 100644
--- a/fs/hppfs/hppfs_kern.c
+++ b/fs/hppfs/hppfs_kern.c
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
return(ERR_PTR(err));
}
-static struct inode_operations hppfs_file_iops = {
+static const struct inode_operations hppfs_file_iops = {
};
static ssize_t read_proc(struct file *file, char __user *buf, ssize_t count,
@@ -693,11 +693,11 @@
return ret;
}
-static struct inode_operations hppfs_dir_iops = {
+static const struct inode_operations hppfs_dir_iops = {
.lookup = hppfs_lookup,
};
-static struct inode_operations hppfs_link_iops = {
+static const struct inode_operations hppfs_link_iops = {
.readlink = hppfs_readlink,
.follow_link = hppfs_follow_link,
};