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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
index 84e83de54575..fe4622e8c837 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
@@ -60,14 +60,14 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(mtrr_mutex);
 u64 size_or_mask, size_and_mask;
 static bool mtrr_aps_delayed_init;
 
-static struct mtrr_ops *mtrr_ops[X86_VENDOR_NUM];
+static const struct mtrr_ops *mtrr_ops[X86_VENDOR_NUM];
 
-struct mtrr_ops *mtrr_if;
+const struct mtrr_ops *mtrr_if;
 
 static void set_mtrr(unsigned int reg, unsigned long base,
                      unsigned long size, mtrr_type type);
 
-void set_mtrr_ops(struct mtrr_ops *ops)
+void set_mtrr_ops(const struct mtrr_ops *ops)
 {
         if (ops->vendor && ops->vendor < X86_VENDOR_NUM)
                 mtrr_ops[ops->vendor] = ops;