From 52cf25d0ab7f78eeecc59ac652ed5090f69b619e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emese Revfy Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:58:23 +0100 Subject: 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 Acked-by: David Teigland Acked-by: Matt Domsch Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski Acked-by: Hans J. Koch Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/kobject.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h index 57a1eaae9096..3950d3c2850d 100644 --- a/include/linux/kobject.h +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ extern char *kobject_get_path(struct kobject *kobj, gfp_t flag); struct kobj_type { void (*release)(struct kobject *kobj); - struct sysfs_ops *sysfs_ops; + const struct sysfs_ops *sysfs_ops; struct attribute **default_attrs; }; @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ struct kobj_attribute { const char *buf, size_t count); }; -extern struct sysfs_ops kobj_sysfs_ops; +extern const struct sysfs_ops kobj_sysfs_ops; /** * struct kset - a set of kobjects of a specific type, belonging to a specific subsystem. -- cgit v1.2.3