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authorEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>2010-01-19 02:58:23 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-03-07 17:04:49 -0800
commit52cf25d0ab7f78eeecc59ac652ed5090f69b619e (patch)
tree031d1ffb3890bd69c0260c864c512e0be62ac05c /mm/slub.c
parent6c1733aca0b48db4d0e660d54976a1cca25b5eaf (diff)
downloadlinux-52cf25d0ab7f78eeecc59ac652ed5090f69b619e.tar.gz
Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type
Constify struct sysfs_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>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slub.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index a26753c12dcd..a2b8969ba6d0 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -4390,7 +4390,7 @@ static void kmem_cache_release(struct kobject *kobj)
 	kfree(s);
 }
 
-static struct sysfs_ops slab_sysfs_ops = {
+static const struct sysfs_ops slab_sysfs_ops = {
 	.show = slab_attr_show,
 	.store = slab_attr_store,
 };