[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5
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/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c
index 04d6417..00e937e 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
return retval;
}
-struct file_operations event_buffer_fops = {
+const struct file_operations event_buffer_fops = {
.open = event_buffer_open,
.release = event_buffer_release,
.read = event_buffer_read,