[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1
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/bfs/bfs.h b/fs/bfs/bfs.h
index 31973bb..130f6c6 100644
--- a/fs/bfs/bfs.h
+++ b/fs/bfs/bfs.h
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@
/* file.c */
-extern struct inode_operations bfs_file_inops;
+extern const struct inode_operations bfs_file_inops;
extern const struct file_operations bfs_file_operations;
extern const struct address_space_operations bfs_aops;
/* dir.c */
-extern struct inode_operations bfs_dir_inops;
+extern const struct inode_operations bfs_dir_inops;
extern const struct file_operations bfs_dir_operations;
#endif /* _FS_BFS_BFS_H */
diff --git a/fs/bfs/dir.c b/fs/bfs/dir.c
index 2a746e6..097f149 100644
--- a/fs/bfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/bfs/dir.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
return error;
}
-struct inode_operations bfs_dir_inops = {
+const struct inode_operations bfs_dir_inops = {
.create = bfs_create,
.lookup = bfs_lookup,
.link = bfs_link,
diff --git a/fs/bfs/file.c b/fs/bfs/file.c
index a9164a8..ef4d1fa 100644
--- a/fs/bfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/bfs/file.c
@@ -164,4 +164,4 @@
.bmap = bfs_bmap,
};
-struct inode_operations bfs_file_inops;
+const struct inode_operations bfs_file_inops;