[PATCH] mark several libata datastructures const

Hi,

the patch below marks several libata (and libata-driver) structures
const so that they end up in the .rodata segment and don't false-share
cachelines with things that get dirtied often.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c b/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
index 9f27e8d0e774..11ed6fa27096 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ void ata_rwcmd_protocol(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
         tf->command = ata_rw_cmds[index + lba48 + write];
 }
 
-static const char * xfer_mode_str[] = {
+static const char * const xfer_mode_str[] = {
         "UDMA/16",
         "UDMA/25",
         "UDMA/33",
@@ -2083,7 +2083,7 @@ static void ata_pr_blacklisted(const struct ata_port *ap,
                 ap->id, dev->devno);
 }
 
-static const char * ata_dma_blacklist [] = {
+static const char * const ata_dma_blacklist [] = {
         "WDC AC11000H",
         "WDC AC22100H",
         "WDC AC32500H",