[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 3

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/watchdog/rm9k_wdt.c b/drivers/char/watchdog/rm9k_wdt.c
index 7576a13e86bc..b4678839d3bb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/watchdog/rm9k_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/watchdog/rm9k_wdt.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(nowayout, "Watchdog cannot be disabled once started");
 
 
 /* Kernel interfaces */
-static struct file_operations fops = {
+static const struct file_operations fops = {
         .owner          = THIS_MODULE,
         .open           = wdt_gpi_open,
         .release        = wdt_gpi_release,