[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/include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h b/include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h
index c3fc6ca..965d5b3 100644
--- a/include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h
@@ -1949,9 +1949,9 @@
#endif
/* dir.c */
-extern struct inode_operations reiserfs_dir_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations reiserfs_symlink_inode_operations;
-extern struct inode_operations reiserfs_special_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations reiserfs_dir_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations reiserfs_symlink_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations reiserfs_special_inode_operations;
extern const struct file_operations reiserfs_dir_operations;
/* tail_conversion.c */
@@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@
void reiserfs_unmap_buffer(struct buffer_head *);
/* file.c */
-extern struct inode_operations reiserfs_file_inode_operations;
+extern const struct inode_operations reiserfs_file_inode_operations;
extern const struct file_operations reiserfs_file_operations;
extern const struct address_space_operations reiserfs_address_space_operations;