[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6
Many struct file_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/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 55ade0d..7445980c 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
return do_maps_open(inode, file, &proc_pid_maps_op);
}
-struct file_operations proc_maps_operations = {
+const struct file_operations proc_maps_operations = {
.open = maps_open,
.read = seq_read,
.llseek = seq_lseek,
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@
return do_maps_open(inode, file, &proc_pid_numa_maps_op);
}
-struct file_operations proc_numa_maps_operations = {
+const struct file_operations proc_numa_maps_operations = {
.open = numa_maps_open,
.read = seq_read,
.llseek = seq_lseek,
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@
return do_maps_open(inode, file, &proc_pid_smaps_op);
}
-struct file_operations proc_smaps_operations = {
+const struct file_operations proc_smaps_operations = {
.open = smaps_open,
.read = seq_read,
.llseek = seq_lseek,