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authorEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>2009-12-31 14:52:51 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-03-07 17:04:49 -0800
commit9cd43611ccfb46632bfa7d19f688924ea93f1613 (patch)
treee11ecee403235ba9d8855892fa7ad55d9b63e221 /kernel
parent985fc176a6c03836454629be2f2a611ccc7c7002 (diff)
downloadlinux-9cd43611ccfb46632bfa7d19f688924ea93f1613.tar.gz
kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_ops
Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 8d95f5451b22..48370be3c0a1 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static int uevent_filter(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static struct kset_uevent_ops module_uevent_ops = {
+static const struct kset_uevent_ops module_uevent_ops = {
 	.filter = uevent_filter,
 };