[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 1

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>
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Arjan van de Ven 2007-02-12 00:55:28 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f59e5e8209
commit 540473208f
9 changed files with 13 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -2130,7 +2130,7 @@ extern int mod_reg_security (const char *name, struct security_operations *ops);
extern int mod_unreg_security (const char *name, struct security_operations *ops);
extern struct dentry *securityfs_create_file(const char *name, mode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, void *data,
struct file_operations *fops);
const struct file_operations *fops);
extern struct dentry *securityfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent);
extern void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry);