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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2007-02-12 00:55:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-12 09:48:44 -0800 |
| commit | 5dfe4c964a0dd7bb3a1d64a4166835a153146207 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fb2fd8c09922be4f40a5a9ac50b537b1d780e27 /arch/i386/kernel/apm.c | |
| parent | 540473208f8ac71c25a87e1a2670c3c18dd4d6db (diff) | |
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[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 2
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.
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 fix]
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/apm.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/apm.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c b/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c index 199016927541..db99a8948dae 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c @@ -1894,7 +1894,7 @@ static int __init apm_setup(char *str) __setup("apm=", apm_setup); #endif -static struct file_operations apm_bios_fops = { +static const struct file_operations apm_bios_fops = { .owner = THIS_MODULE, .read = do_read, .poll = do_poll, |