[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/oprofile_files.c b/drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c
index a72006c..ef953ba 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
}
-static struct file_operations depth_fops = {
+static const struct file_operations depth_fops = {
.read = depth_read,
.write = depth_write
};
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
}
-static struct file_operations pointer_size_fops = {
+static const struct file_operations pointer_size_fops = {
.read = pointer_size_read,
};
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
}
-static struct file_operations cpu_type_fops = {
+static const struct file_operations cpu_type_fops = {
.read = cpu_type_read,
};
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
}
-static struct file_operations enable_fops = {
+static const struct file_operations enable_fops = {
.read = enable_read,
.write = enable_write,
};
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
}
-static struct file_operations dump_fops = {
+static const struct file_operations dump_fops = {
.write = dump_write,
};