[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 7

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, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/net/atm/proc.c b/net/atm/proc.c
index 190f49ce2cad..9e61e512f667 100644
--- a/net/atm/proc.c
+++ b/net/atm/proc.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 static ssize_t proc_dev_atm_read(struct file *file,char __user *buf,size_t count,
     loff_t *pos);
 
-static struct file_operations proc_atm_dev_ops = {
+static const struct file_operations proc_atm_dev_ops = {
         .owner =        THIS_MODULE,
         .read =         proc_dev_atm_read,
 };
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static int atm_dev_seq_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
         return seq_open(file, &atm_dev_seq_ops);
 }
 
-static struct file_operations devices_seq_fops = {
+static const struct file_operations devices_seq_fops = {
         .open           = atm_dev_seq_open,
         .read           = seq_read,
         .llseek         = seq_lseek,
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ static int pvc_seq_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
         return __vcc_seq_open(inode, file, PF_ATMPVC, &pvc_seq_ops);
 }
 
-static struct file_operations pvc_seq_fops = {
+static const struct file_operations pvc_seq_fops = {
         .open           = pvc_seq_open,
         .read           = seq_read,
         .llseek         = seq_lseek,
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ static int vcc_seq_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
         return __vcc_seq_open(inode, file, 0, &vcc_seq_ops);
 }
 
-static struct file_operations vcc_seq_fops = {
+static const struct file_operations vcc_seq_fops = {
         .open           = vcc_seq_open,
         .read           = seq_read,
         .llseek         = seq_lseek,
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ static int svc_seq_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
         return __vcc_seq_open(inode, file, PF_ATMSVC, &svc_seq_ops);
 }
 
-static struct file_operations svc_seq_fops = {
+static const struct file_operations svc_seq_fops = {
         .open           = svc_seq_open,
         .read           = seq_read,
         .llseek         = seq_lseek,
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ void atm_proc_dev_deregister(struct atm_dev *dev)
 
 static struct atm_proc_entry {
         char *name;
-        struct file_operations *proc_fops;
+        const struct file_operations *proc_fops;
         struct proc_dir_entry *dirent;
 } atm_proc_ents[] = {
         { .name = "devices",    .proc_fops = &devices_seq_fops },