[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/udf/file.c b/fs/udf/file.c
index d81f2db..40d5047 100644
--- a/fs/udf/file.c
+++ b/fs/udf/file.c
@@ -263,6 +263,6 @@
.sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
};
-struct inode_operations udf_file_inode_operations = {
+const struct inode_operations udf_file_inode_operations = {
.truncate = udf_truncate,
};
diff --git a/fs/udf/namei.c b/fs/udf/namei.c
index 7316332..fe361cd 100644
--- a/fs/udf/namei.c
+++ b/fs/udf/namei.c
@@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@
return retval;
}
-struct inode_operations udf_dir_inode_operations = {
+const struct inode_operations udf_dir_inode_operations = {
.lookup = udf_lookup,
.create = udf_create,
.link = udf_link,
diff --git a/fs/udf/udfdecl.h b/fs/udf/udfdecl.h
index 1033b7c..ee1dece 100644
--- a/fs/udf/udfdecl.h
+++ b/fs/udf/udfdecl.h
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@
struct buffer_head;
struct super_block;
-extern struct inode_operations udf_dir_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations udf_dir_inode_operations;
extern const struct file_operations udf_dir_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations udf_file_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations udf_file_inode_operations;
extern const struct file_operations udf_file_operations;
extern const struct address_space_operations udf_aops;
extern const struct address_space_operations udf_adinicb_aops;