[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 9

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, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sound/core/init.c b/sound/core/init.c
index db6103733742..4a431e3ea3a2 100644
--- a/sound/core/init.c
+++ b/sound/core/init.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(shutdown_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(shutdown_files);
 
-static struct file_operations snd_shutdown_f_ops;
+static const struct file_operations snd_shutdown_f_ops;
 
 static unsigned int snd_cards_lock;     /* locked for registering/using */
 struct snd_card *snd_cards[SNDRV_CARDS];
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static int snd_disconnect_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int on)
         return -ENODEV;
 }
 
-static struct file_operations snd_shutdown_f_ops =
+static const struct file_operations snd_shutdown_f_ops =
 {
         .owner =        THIS_MODULE,
         .llseek =       snd_disconnect_llseek,