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author | Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> | 2010-01-31 14:16:34 -0500 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-02-01 14:20:43 -0500 |
commit | 3b9cfc0a99f88c0db7c72363620584a9b40b4543 (patch) | |
tree | f34b481d28eae0c04521a36c45bb50c1511cf5e6 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/Makefile | |
parent | ab658321f32770b903a4426e2a6fae0392757755 (diff) |
x86, mtrr: Constify struct mtrr_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>
LKML-Reference: <4B65D712.3080804@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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