[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: make some datastructures const

Mark some key kernel datastructures readonly.  This patch was previously
posted on Jun 28th but was back then not merged because nothing was enforcing
rodata anyway..  well that changed now :)

Patch by Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> and Dave Jones
<davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S b/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
index e50b93155249..607c06007508 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ ENTRY(spurious_interrupt_bug)
         pushl $do_spurious_interrupt_bug
         jmp error_code
 
+.section .rodata,"a"
 #include "syscall_table.S"
 
 syscall_table_size=(.-sys_call_table)
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
index 9b21a31d4f4e..f7ba4acc20ec 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-.data
 ENTRY(sys_call_table)
         .long sys_restart_syscall       /* 0 - old "setup()" system call, used for restarting */
         .long sys_exit