[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 3
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/sysv/sysv.h b/fs/sysv/sysv.h
index dcb18b2..a320edc 100644
--- a/fs/sysv/sysv.h
+++ b/fs/sysv/sysv.h
@@ -159,9 +159,9 @@
extern ino_t sysv_inode_by_name(struct dentry *);
-extern struct inode_operations sysv_file_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations sysv_dir_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations sysv_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations sysv_file_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations sysv_dir_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations sysv_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
extern const struct file_operations sysv_file_operations;
extern const struct file_operations sysv_dir_operations;
extern const struct address_space_operations sysv_aops;