[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/include/linux/ext3_fs.h b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
index 11cca1b..4eb18ac 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
@@ -868,16 +868,16 @@
extern const struct file_operations ext3_dir_operations;
/* file.c */
-extern struct inode_operations ext3_file_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations ext3_file_inode_operations;
extern const struct file_operations ext3_file_operations;
/* namei.c */
-extern struct inode_operations ext3_dir_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations ext3_special_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations ext3_dir_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations ext3_special_inode_operations;
/* symlink.c */
-extern struct inode_operations ext3_symlink_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations ext3_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations ext3_symlink_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations ext3_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */